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Vancouver Feature: Foncie Pulice Takes His Last Street Photo

The following article is a feature from our Vancouver Feature series. Past features are not updated. If you were strolling down Granville Street in post-war Vancouver, chances are that an affable photographer would step out from behind his camera to tell you that he’d just snapped your picture. Foncie Pulice was his name, and the sidewalk was his studio.
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Vancouver Feature: Gassy Jack Lands on the Burrard Shore

The following article is a feature from our Vancouver Feature series. Past features are not updated. When Capt. Jack Deighton and his family pulled their canoe onto the south shore of the Burrrard Inlet in 1867, Jack was on one more search for riches. He had been a sailor on British and American ships, rushed for gold in California and the Cariboo, piloted boats on the Fraser River and ran a tavern in New Westminster. He was broke again, but he wasted no time in starting a new business and building the settlement that would become Vancouver.
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Vancouver Feature: Heavyweight Champ Battles Future Movie Star

The following article is a feature from our Vancouver Feature series. Past features are not updated. In 1909, everyone knew who Jack Johnson was: the first Black Heavyweight Champion of the World. His opponent at the old Vancouver Athletic Club was a relatively unknown 26-year-old named Victor McLaglen. The young boxer lost this match, but would later win an Oscar and worldwide fame for his cinematic bouts with John Wayne.
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Vancouver Feature: Hero Slain on a Vancouver Street

The following article is a feature from our Vancouver Feature series. Past features are not updated. Constable Robert McBeath stopped a drunk driver on Granville Street in the wee hours of an October morning in 1922. It was routine police work for the twenty-four year-old constable, but it would cost him the life he had risked just a few years before, when he earned the Victoria Cross at the Somme.
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Vancouver Feature: Joe Fortes Saves Lives, Wins Hearts

The following article is a feature from our Vancouver Feature series. Past features are not updated. Vancouver’s “Citizen of the Century” was a portly Barbadian-born barman named Joe Fortes. Living in a small cottage near the bandstand in Alexandra Park, Fortes was the first official lifeguard at English Bay beach. He taught hundreds of Vancouverites how to swim.
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Vancouver Feature: Mayor McGeer Reads the Riot Act

The following article is a feature from our Vancouver Feature series. Past features are not updated. The labour camp strikers who assembled in Victory Square on April 23, 1935 wanted financial assistance from the city. Battered by the Depression and angry at conditions in the camps, the crowd of 2,000 demanded change. Mayor Gerry McGeer gave them an ultimatum instead.
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Vancouver Feature: The Milkshake Murder

The following article is a feature from our Vancouver Feature series. Past features are not updated. The Bowmac sign on Broadway was the largest freestanding electric sign in the world. It could be seen all the way from Burnaby, miles away. For a short while in 1965 it also helped a promoter hide the slow murder of his wife by arsenic-laced milkshakes.
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Vanessa Harwood

Known for her interpretation of leading roles inSwan Lake, The Dying Swan, Coppélia and Elite Syncopations, Harwood is admired for her virtuosity and her seductive stage presence.
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Veena Rawat

Veena Rawat, OC, electrical engineer, civil servant, telecommunications pioneer (born in 1945 in India). Veena Rawat spent nearly 40 years in public service, serving in leadership positions in management and policy development with Industry Canada. A trailblazer in the telecommunications sector, Rawat was the first female to complete a doctorate in electrical engineering at Queen’s University and was the first female president of Industry Canada’s Communication Research Centre. Rawat has been a leading voice in the creation of global regulatory structures for radio spectrum management, championing efforts to make broadband service affordable to all and bring it to remote and rural regions. She is an advocate for gender equality in STEM sectors and increasing women’s presence in engineering fields.
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Vera Frenkel

Vera Frenkel, multidisciplinary artist, independent video artist, writer (b at Bratislava, Czech 10 Nov 1938). First recognized internationally as a printmaker and sculptor, Frenkel, since 1974, has been in the forefront of the visual, spatial and narrative uses of video and media-based art.
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Vera Guilaroff

Vera Guilaroff. Pianist, composer, b London 26 Oct 1902, d Montreal 23 Oct 1976.
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Vera Peters

Mildred Vera Lobb (née Peters), OC, physician, radiation oncologist, researcher (born 28 April 1911 in Thistletown, ON; died 1 October 1993 in Toronto, ON). Known professionally as Dr. Vera Peters, she conducted groundbreaking research on Hodgkin’s disease, now known as Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and breast cancer, which led to changes in the way these diseases are treated. (See also Cancer; Breast Cancer Research in Canada.) Peters was also a pioneer of patient-centered care, which prioritizes patients in the decision-making process for medical treatment, and which is now the standard model in health care.
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Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough

Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough, governor general of Canada from 1931 to 1935 (born 27 October 1880 in London, United Kingdom; died 10 March 1956 in Stoughton, United Kingdom). Bessborough was the first governor general to entertain a reigning foreign monarch in Canada, the first to fly a viceregal standard for Canada and the first to have his installation broadcast on the radio.
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Vern Isaac

Vern (Vernon Clarence) Isaac. Saxophonist, vibraphonist, bandleader, b Pittsburg, Texas, 21 Oct 1913, d 16 Dec 1999.
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Vernon Barford

Vernon (West) Barford. Organist, choirmaster, teacher, b Wellington College, Berkshire, England, 10 Sep 1876, d Edmonton 22 Apr 1963; AAGO (Associate American Guild of Organists) 1912, honorary MA (Alberta) 1924, honorary FCCO 1945.
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