Story Sources

The Canadian Tuxedo

• "24 Double Denim Moments That Make A Case For The Canadian Tuxedo"

• "The History of the Canadian Tuxedo"

• "The History and Return of the Canadian Tuxedo"

• "The history of the Canadian tuxedo"

• "Bing Crosby taken for 'bum', hotel gives cold shoulder"

• "Did Bing Crosby invent the Canadian tuxedo?"

• "A Short History of Denim"

• "The controversial American history of the Canadian tuxedo

• "The 'Canadian Tuxedo' can apparently be traced back to Bing Crosby"

• "The Canadian Tuxedo: fashion faux pas or time-tested trend"

• "How Denim Became a Political Symbol of the 1960s"

• "Soviet Denim Smuggling: The History of Jeans behind the Iron Curtain"

• "Levi Strauss"

• "How Denim became the Symbol of the Civil Rights Movement"

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Trees of British Columbia

• “Cathedral Grove, British Columbia”

• “Dozens of B.C.’s largest, oldest trees being protected”

• “Vancouver Island Big Trees”

• “The thickest, tallest, and oldest trees in Canada”

• “BC’s biggest trees can now be found online”

• “Biggest Trees”

• “Meet Vancouver’s tallest tree and those who look after it”

• “Common Trees of the Pacific Northwest”

• “New Seven Sisters Tree and Plaque in Stanley Park”

• “Seven Sisters and Plaque in Stanley Park”

• “The Lure in Stanley Park”

• “Johnson, Emily Pauline”

• “Joe Capilano”

• “Clayoquot Protests”

• “Meares Island”

• “Big Tree Trail Meares Island”

• “Avatar Grove”

• “Port Renfrew Big Trees Map”

• “A Great Grandmother Goes to Jail”

• “Caren Range Old-Growth Forest”

• "Big tree [in Stanley Park]"

• "Old tree, Vancouver Island"

• "A Giant Cedar"

• "[Seven Sisters trees, Stanley Park]"

• "Cathedral Grove, Van. Is. [Vancouver Island]"

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Oakalla Prison

• “A brief history of Oakalla Prison”

• “Jack Webster visits Oakalla prison”

• “Hard Place To Do Time - The Story of Oakalla Prison 1912-1991; Author Earl Andersen shares stories from his time working there”

• “How a blood riot and massive prison break brought down Oakalla, B.C.’s most notorious jail”

• “‘Crime of passion’: How a gay man became the last person to be executed in B.C.”

• “1912-1991: Oakalla (Lower Mainland Regional Correctional Centre)”

• “Man raped by inmates during ‘scared straight’ prison tour awarded $175 from B.C.”

• “1912-1991: Oakalla (Lower Mainland Regional Correctional Centre)”

• “Inside B.C. jails: Former inmates and their relatives speak out”

• “Hundreds of inmates had plastic surgery at B.C.’s Oakalla prison”

• “Change a face, change a fate: when prisoners got free nose jobs”

• “Go to prison, get plastic surgery”

• “13 inmates overpower guard and escape from Oakalla”

• “The Oaklands Townhouses and Condos”

• “Our Services - Scared Straight”

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The Nanaimo Bar

• “The History of Nanaimo Bars: A Beloved Treat”

• “Nanaimo bar stamp makes it into Nanaimo Museum”

• “The Story of the Nanaimo Bar”

• “Nanaimo Bar”

• “The Legendary Nanaimo Bar”

• “Iconic Canadian Food: The History of Nanaimo Bars”

• “Tracing the Obscure Trail of the Nanaimo Bar, Canada’s Favorite Confection”

• “Nanaimo Bars: the people behind the recipe”

• “Dessert’s origins unknown, Nanaimo calls it its own”

• “Edith Adams”

• “Edith Adams, Vancouver’s original foodie”

• “Rationing”

• “Food on the Home Front during the Second World War"

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Canada's First Lady of Jazz

• "Eleanor Collins"

• "Eleanor Collins, Canada's first lady of jazz, turns 100"

• "Eleanor Collins Jazz Singer: "Look to the Rainbow"

• "Eleanor Collins, C.M."

• "Eleanor Collins"

• "Racial Segregation of Black People in Canada"

• "Eleanor Collins"

• "Eleanor Collins, Canada's first lady of jazz, turns 100"

• "Singer (Eleanor Collins) and band"

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The Herald Family

• "Herald Provincial Park"

• "Herald Family Fonds"

• "South Shuswap Historical Society"

• "Norman Bethune N.B. Sanson"

• "BC Parks: Facts and Figures"

• "Parks and Trails in B.C."

• "A History of BC Parks"

• Photographs and Correspondence  courtesy of the salmon Arm Museum and Archives

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Hannah Maynard

• "Hannah Hatherly Maynard"

• "Hannah Maynard"

• "Hannah Maynard"

• "Hannah Hatherly Maynard"

• "The Genius of Hannah Maynard"

• "Hannah Maynard"

• "Hannah Maynard"

• "Hannah Maynard was an early master of the new art of photography"

• "Photography and Surrealism"

• "Surrealism"

• "The Most Surreal Pictures in the Victorian World"

• "First Nations right to vote granted 50 years ago"

• "Indigenous suffrage"

• "Spiritualism"

• "Doppelgänger"

• "Sprays from the Gem Fountain"

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Ghost Stories of British Columbia

• "Lady in Red Cocktail"

• "Fairmont Hotel Vancouver"

• "Lady in Red Ghost Sighting"

• "The Lady in Red"

• "These are the most haunted spots in B.C. that you must road trip to this fall"

• "Historical Ghost stories"

• "Get your creep on in Spookloops"

• "Ghosts of the southern interior"

• "Issue: October 14, 2013"

• "Walking on the wild side"

• "Paranormal podcast shares story of Quesnel's Mandy doll"

• "Mandy: supernatural doll at Quesnel museum gets qr code to share ghostly stories"

• Video

• Quesnel District Museum and Archives

• "Mandy"

• "Hotel Vancouver"

• "[Self-portrait - Osborne J. Pierce sitting in a chair"

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Mandrake the Magician

• "Dean Johnson - July 23, 2013"

• "Mandrake: A Magical Life"

• "Leon 'Mandrake the Magician' Giglio Mandrake"

• "Home of Mandrake destroyed by fire"

• "Mandrake the Magician"

• "Son of Mandrake the Magician saddened by 'magical house' destroyed by fire"

• "Mandrake Vintage"

• "Mandrake Sons"

• "The Canadians: Mandrake"

• "The International Brotherhood of Magicians"

• "The Magic Castle"

• Mandrake the Magician mailer, 1958, Lon Mandrake collection. Courtesy of the Surrey Archives, 2019.0028.

• Performance ticket, 1958, Lon Mandrake collection. Courtesy of the Surrey Archives, 2019.0028.

• University lecture flyer, [197-], Lon Mandrake collection. Courtesy of the Surrey Archives, 2019.0028.

• Lon Mandrake, 2007, Surrey Leader Photograph Fonds. Photo courtesy of the Surrey Archives, 2017.0022.373.07-1240.1.

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Cougar Annie

• "Cougar Annie"

• "Cougar Annie's Garden"

• "Cougar Annie's Garden"

• "Visit Cougar Annie's Garden Near Tofino"

• "Cougar Annie Inspired a Musical"

• "Revisiting Cougar Annie's Garden"

• "Estevan Point"

• "Hesquiaht First Nation"

• "Clayoquot Sound"

• "BC Parks"

• "Cougar Annie" - John Manning

• "Journalist John Manning and his dog, Lulu"

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The Provincial Home for Old Men

• "Tree Museum Mulled for Kamloops Cemetery"

• "Kamloops to use ground penetrating radar to locate graves where planned tree museum would go"

• "Old Men's Provincial Home Cemetery, Kamloops, B.C."

• "A Stroll through Kamloops' Haunted History"

• "Old Mens Provincial Cemetery"

• "Wild McLean Boys Were Original Outlaws"

• "How a Death in Victoria Lead to Creation of the Kamloops Old Man's Home"

• "Old Man's Home, Kamloops, B.C."

• "Kamloops. Provincial Home for Elderly Men"

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Phyllis Munday

• "The Search for BC's Mystery Mountain: Experts said it didn't exist--then Don and Phyllis Munday found it"

• "Mount Munday"

• "Mountaineer blazed trail for B.C. women climbers"

• "Phyllis Munday"

• "Girl Guides atop Grouse Mountain"

• "Phyllis Munday fonds"

• "Geography of B.C."

• "A brief history of early climbing attire for women"

• "Mount Robson Provincial Park"

• "Mount Munday"

• "Phyllis Munday part 1"

• "Phyllis Munday on Franklin Glacier carrying a 70 lb. pack"

• "Phyllis Munday seated on a rocky outcrop, Dam Mountain, North Vancouver; box 37, "our cabin from start to 1921"

• "[Mr. and Mrs. Munday and their daughter in front of their log cabin on Grouse Mountain]"

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Glen Brae Manor

• "Glen Brae"

• "The Shady History of Glen Brae"

• "Shaughnessy: Canuck Place house has dark history"

• "Pricey Pads private tour of Glen Brae Manor"

• "Glen Brae"

• "Canuck Place: Our History"

• "The troubling history of the Ku Klux Klan in Vancouver"

• "Canuck Place"

• "The Crescent"

• "1690 Matthews Avenue"

• "Smith, Janet Kennedy"

• "[Exterior view of 'Glen Brae', a Shaughnessy Mansion]"

• "Old Shaughnessy"

• "K.K.K. [Ku Klux Klan] Imperial Kouncil"

• "Imperial Palace - Canadian Knights of Ku Klux Klan [Headquarters Building, 1690 Matthews]"

• "Aerial view of the Crescent in Shaughnessy"

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In the Land of the Head Hunters

• "Potlatch"

• "In the Land of the Head Hunters: BC's first feature film celebrates 100 years"

• "In the Land of the Head Hunters"

• "Curtis' landmark 1914 Silent Film of the Pacific Northwest First Nations Culture"

• "Edward S. Curtis"

• "Hugo Henry Zeiter"

• "Reception and Subsequent History"

• "Filming In the Land of the Head Hunters"

• "Edward Sheriff Curtis: 1868-1952"

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The Heart of the Silvery Slocan

• "Ghost Town Mysteries: The Old Trolley Buses of Sandon, B.C."

• "Sandon"

• "Sandon"

• "Sandon in the Kootenays"

• Ghost Town Mysteries: Can Sandon, B.C. be saved forever?"

• "Place Names: Sandon, Part I"

• "Breathing life into B.C.'s ghost towns"

• "Transportation in Canada"

• The Kootenay Star

• Gold Trails and Ghost Towns: Sandon Revisited

• "Canada 150th: The incredible live of Bill Barlee"

• "Sandon: The electric city"

• "Sandon"

• "BC Hydro lacks an appetite for green electricity"

• "Barleee was the real treasure of B.C.'s Gold Trails and Ghost Towns"

• "Sandon, B.C."

• "[Main Street], Sandon, B.C."

• "Wedding party leaving Sandon, B.C."

• The Sandon Historical Society

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Leprosy and D'Arcy Island

• "Victoria banished Chinese lepers to island colony"

• "The Ghosts of D'Arcy Island"

• "'Island of Death': BC's forgotten racist leper colony"

• "D'Arcy Island (Gulf Island's National Park Reserve"

• "D'Arcy Island"

• "D'Arcy Island Marine Park"

• "Honouring forgotten lepers"

• "Early Chinese Experiences in British Columbia"

• "Hansen's Disease (Leprosy)"

• "The Lepers of Tracadie"

• "Building the Railway"

• "Chinese Leper at D'Arcy Island"

• "Chinese Leper at D'Arcy Island"

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Jane Rule

• "Jane Rule's Taking My Life reveals a groundbreaking artist"

• "Jane Rule"

• "Proud Life - Jane Rule: 1931-2007"

• "Jane Rule: Desert of the Heart Novelist"

• "Galiano Island remembers Jane Rule"

• "Jane Rule wrote of 'jailable' love"

• "Jane Rules: Reflections on living and on loving"

• "Jane Rule, 76"

• "Remembering Jane Rule"

• "Jane Rule"

• "Ms. Jane Vance Rule"

• "[Jane Rule]"

• "Jane Rule [at] book launch: Ariel's Bks. 1988"

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"It was a dark and stormy night..."

• "Famous first lines reveal how to start a novel"

• "'Literary tragedy' of Bulwer-Lytton's dark and stormy night up for debate"

• "Who really wrote it was a dark and stormy night?"

• "Golden Country: A dark and stormy night"

• "'It was a dark and stormy night': the literary cliche that inspired a contest for bad writing"

• "It was a dark and stormy night..."

• "In defence of: 'It was a dark and stormy night'"

• "#2017: It was a dark and stormy night"

• The Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest

• Paul Clifford

• Village of Lytton

• "Lytton"

• Lytton First Nation

• "Dickens or Bulwer?"

• "Toff and Proff duke it out at great Edward Bulwer Lytton literary debate"

• "New museum built on historic Lytton cultural site"

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Francis Mawson Rattenbury

• "The Outrageous Life and Death of Francis Rattenbury"

• "Victoria architect's murder still stumps some to this day"

• "The Architect and the Lady"

• "Rattenbury"

• "Francis Mawson Rattenbury"

• "Crystal Garden"

• "Canada's Grand Railway Hotels"

• "Francis Mawson Rattenbury, 1867-1935"

• "Parliament Buildings"

• "Florence Eleanor Rattenbury nee Nunn"

• "Alma Rattenbury"

• "Francis Mawson Rattenbury with pot of paperwhites"

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Mary Spencer

• "Mary Spencer, pioneering photographer, showcased at ​Kamloops Museum"

• "Kamloops Museum & Archives presents: Mary Spencer, photographer"

• "The Photographer and the Bandit"

• "The photographer and the robber"

• "Bill Miner in Kamloops after his capture by police"

• "Shorty Dunn, a member of Bill Miner's 1906 gang; in Kamloops after capture by police"

• "The Spencer Sisters of Summerland" (Sherril Foster)

• "Miss Mary Spencer" (Kamloops Daily New)

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Playland's Wooden Roller Coaster

• "Wooden Roller Coaster (Playland)"

• "Rides: Wooden Roller Coaster"

• "Playland's iconic wooden roller coaster named one of the best in the world"

• "Playland's iconic roller coaster celebrates 60 years of chills and thrills"

• "Place that matters: wooden roller coaster"

• "Canada's oldest wooden roller coaster gets green light to open for another season"

• "Vancouver's iconic wooden roller coaster gets recognition from heritage foundation"

• "You should know the history behind Playland's ancient, iconic wooden coaster"

• "Playland roller coaster wins classic status"

• "PNE Coaster Award"

• "History Link - 3562"

• "Aerial view of P.N.E. Playland"

• "View of amusement rides in P.N.E. Playland"

• "Riders on wooden rollercoaster"

• "Rollercoaster in P.N.E. Playland"

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The Recluse of the Rockies

• "Century-old Shuswap Lake mansion with rich B.C. history up for sale"

• "BACK ROOM: Charles John Collings (1848-1931)"

• "Shuswap's most famous artist deserves more recognition"

• "Collings mansion for sale in Seymour Arm"

• "Dreaming big--the Seymour Arm Fruit Lands"

• "Shuswap's famous reclusive artist"

• "Seymour Arm"

• "Charles John Collings sketching in the Rockies."

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Joe Fortes

• “Joseph Seraphim Fortes”

• “Our Friend Joe: The Joe Fortes Story”

• “Joe”

• “Joe”

• “Joseph Seraphim Fortes”

• “Our Friend Joe: The Joe Fortes Story”

• “The Guardian Angel of Swimming Children”

• “Charles Marega”

• “The West End Story”

• “Vintage Vancouver: The West End - A timeline of development”

• “Making a splash”

• “Remembering The Great Vancouver Fire”

• “[Joe Seraphim] Fortes in front of his tent at English Bay”

• “[Joe Fortes]”

• “English Bay [Joe Fortes]”

• “[Joe Fortes diving into water at English Bay]”

• “[Joe Fortes standing at the gate of his cottage at the foot of Bidwell Street]”

Canada's Camelot

• "Welcome to Gold Country's Ghost Town."

• "Walhachin."

• "Vanishing British Columbia."

• "Historic 'Little England' Thompson community crowdfunds to reopen museum."

• "Walhachin--From dust to riches to rags."

• "The legend of Walhachin gets a fresh look."

• "Golden Country: Past, Present, and Beyond: Ghosts of Walhachin part eight."

• "Walhachin."

• "Immigration in Canada."

• "Walhachin Hotel."

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