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Time Traveller: Grouse Mountain's original chalet was picture perfect before it burned to the ground

Time Traveller: Grouse Mountain's original chalet was picture perfect before it burned to the ground

The structure was designed in around 1925
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The unsolved murder of Robert David Hopkins

The unsolved murder of Robert David Hopkins

The 48-year-old newspaperman was found brutally murdered in his Vancouver home in 1954. Was it someone from his secret life who did it?
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Time Traveller: Master builder Harry Moody constructs the racing canoe 'Capilano Warrior'

Time Traveller: Master builder Harry Moody constructs the racing canoe 'Capilano Warrior'

Canoe was carved from a 55-foot cedar log that was donated by the Capilano Shingle Co. 'after months of search by tugboat captain Charlie Cates'
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When BC Liquor Stores first opened a century ago, you needed an annual permit to buy booze (PHOTOS)

When BC Liquor Stores first opened a century ago, you needed an annual permit to buy booze (PHOTOS)

They were launched when prohibition ended in B.C. in 1921. Now they're celebrating by selling signed bottles of Ryan Reynolds' gin.
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Time Traveller: Why Squamish Nation calls those iconic peaks The Two Sisters

Time Traveller: Why Squamish Nation calls those iconic peaks The Two Sisters

June is National Indigenous History Month in Canada.
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You can throw it back to Expo 86 with this new release

You can throw it back to Expo 86 with this new release

It'll go well with that Swatch you just pulled out of storage
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Time Traveller: When fishing derbies used to be popular employee 'team-building' exercises

Time Traveller: When fishing derbies used to be popular employee 'team-building' exercises

This photo shows the Burrard Dry Dock Fishing Derby winners with their prizes from Sept. 19, 1964.
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Time Traveller: The story of Maisie Hurley and The Native Voice

Time Traveller: The story of Maisie Hurley and The Native Voice

The newspaper became the official publication of the Native Brotherhood of B.C.
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Let there be light: How electric power came to the Sunshine Coast

Let there be light: How electric power came to the Sunshine Coast

Most of the time we take it for granted that when we turn a switch or press a button a light will come on or the washing machine will start.
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These incredible, historic photos from the Klondike Gold Rush were recently gifted to UBC

These incredible, historic photos from the Klondike Gold Rush were recently gifted to UBC

The photos, maps and posters are part of a historic collection gifted to the University as part of $2.5 million donation from UBC alum Philip B. Lind.
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