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Time Traveller: This legendary hardware store supplied the North Shore for nearly a century

Time Traveller: This legendary hardware store supplied the North Shore for nearly a century

Paine Hardware specialized in hard-to-find hardware items
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Vancouver cold case files: Murder in Mole Hill

Vancouver cold case files: Murder in Mole Hill

In 1996, a Vancouver woman who had beaten cancer and was prepping to move into a new apartment was killed by an unknown assailant delivering fatal blows to her head and larynx.
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Time Traveller: Dig out your old home movies to share in this worldwide amateur film event

Time Traveller: Dig out your old home movies to share in this worldwide amateur film event

Archives of North Vancouver encouraging residents to take part in Home Movie Day
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Travel back in time with this free history app in Vancouver (PHOTOS)

Travel back in time with this free history app in Vancouver (PHOTOS)

The app features over 650 "then and now" photo sets across Vancouver.
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Meet Vancouver's ultimate antique collector (VIDEO)

Meet Vancouver's ultimate antique collector (VIDEO)

He has a top-of-the-line juicer — from 1917.
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Vancouver cold case files: The Night Club Murders

Vancouver cold case files: The Night Club Murders

Sister of Penthouse dancer slain in 1975 says she hasn't heard from Vancouver Police since right after the crime.
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Someone is selling a bunch of vintage matchbooks from iconic (and forgotten) Vancouver restaurants

Someone is selling a bunch of vintage matchbooks from iconic (and forgotten) Vancouver restaurants

How many of thse businesses do you recognize?
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Time Traveller: When Nikkei settlers made a home in the North Vancouver wilderness

Time Traveller: When Nikkei settlers made a home in the North Vancouver wilderness

The camp was likely built around 1919 and is believed to have remained a settlement after the last trees were cut around 1924
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The Challenger Map has returned to the PNE... sort of

The Challenger Map has returned to the PNE... sort of

It's the size of two tennis courts, and it's going to take a huge effort to restore it
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Vancouver cold case files: High-rolling couple disappeared in 1994 - or were they murdered?

Vancouver cold case files: High-rolling couple disappeared in 1994 - or were they murdered?

North Vancouver's biggest missing persons case concerns a couple who may have been caught up in a stock scam and murdered.
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