Forbidden Vancouver
Vancouver's top five most salacious and surprising scandals from the past
From mobsters to corrupt cops đź‘€
- Forbidden Vancouver
- May 15, 2023
The secret history of Vancouver's beaches
The little-known histories of Vancouver's favourite summer spots.
- Forbidden Vancouver
- Jun 8, 2021
Halloween tour lets you experience Vancouver's most gruesome history
From the Great Fire, to smallpox outbreaks, to unsolved murder.
- Forbidden Vancouver
- Oct 9, 2019
The secret history of Vancouver's beaches
The little known histories of Vancouver's favourite summer spots.
- Forbidden Vancouver
- Jul 23, 2019
Vancouver's hidden history: A drag queen’s fight for decriminalization
There is still a lot of work to be done in our country for LGBTQ2+ equality.
- Forbidden Vancouver
- Jul 6, 2019
The spectacular drama and booze-filled history of The Cambie
Between scandals, licence suspensions, brawls and renovations, this place had it all.
- Forbidden Vancouver
- Jul 5, 2019
Vice history: The story of Vancouver's legendary madam
In the end it was her ethnicity -- not her Gastown brothel -- that led to her imprisonment.
- Forbidden Vancouver
- Apr 8, 2019
1918: The year Vancouver got prohibition for Christmas
Picture, if you will, a holiday season without alcohol.
- Forbidden Vancouver
- Dec 8, 2018
The troubling history of the Ku Klux Klan in Vancouver
The KKK is a uniquely American phenomenon, but in the 1920s they arrived in Vancouver.
- Forbidden Vancouver
- Mar 8, 2018
Haunted Vancouver: The infamous 1924 death of Janet Smith
A tale of unsolved murder, racism, drug-fuelled parties, torture, and the haunting of Hycroft Mansion.
- Forbidden Vancouver
- Oct 17, 2017
The secret history of Vancouver's beaches
The little known histories of Vancouver's favourite summer spots.
- Forbidden Vancouver
- Jul 18, 2017
Haunted Vancouver: Baptism by Fire
These are the spirits of early Vancouver...
- Forbidden Vancouver
- Oct 14, 2016
Haunted Vancouver: From Lynn Valley to the Gallows
Does the spirit of murderer Hugh Lynn haunt the forests of Lynn Valley?
- Forbidden Vancouver
- Oct 11, 2016
Haunted Vancouver: The ghost of the Vogue Theatre
Meet the Vogue Theatre's resident ghost...
- Forbidden Vancouver
- Jul 9, 2016
Haunted Vancouver: Hotel Vancouver and its glamorous Lady in Red
The Lady In Red is likely Vancouver’s most famous ghost, and she’s certainly the most glamorous.
- Forbidden Vancouver
- Jul 9, 2016
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