Vancouver baseball historian Bud Kerr, who turns 72 this July, still remembers June 15, 1951 clearly. It was Opening Day for Capilano Stadium, which would later be rechristened after Nat Bailey.
Imagine travelling 8,000 kilometres for your next meal. You cover 128 kilometres a day on a continuous journey, with no sleep. Along the way, you face numerous life-threatening dangers.
Pass beneath the elaborate arch of the Gate of Harmonious Interest spanning Fisgard Street in Victoria’s Chinatown and you enter into a colourful section of the city’s heritage.
Vancouver staged its first thoroughbred race in 1889. Horses charged down the middle of what is now Howe Street as spectators watched from a makeshift grandstand in front of the Vancouver Hotel.
Back in 1984, Victoria bookseller Jim Munro noticed that the old Royal Bank building on Government Street was up for sale. “I rashly bought it,” he says with a laugh.
Earlier this year, as Academy Awards presenters were about to announce the winner for Best Picture – an award for which two films with a Vancouver connection, Crash and Capote
