Off the 'Cuff

For those of you who use Facebook, the Police Museum now has a Fan Page. You can check it out here. (Don’t forget about our Flickr Pool, too!)

Throughout history, there are countless hardworking individuals in careers who performed important tasks that made lives better and safer but will never get a mention in the history books simply because their job was not alluring enough to gain attention. Such was the state of food inspectors in Vancouver, until now. This blog takes us, [...]

Another foot has been found; this time a woman’s foot.

I’ve been doing walking tours of Gastown, Chinatown, and the Downtown Eastside for the last five years. There’s something almost magical about taking people outside of the confines of a museum and into the “real” world; people interact differently with buildings, streets and crowds than they do with carefully-crafted signage and objects mounted behind glass. [...]

Halloween is always a little crazy around the Vancouver Police Museum; for the last four years we’ve participated in the Haunted Trolley Tour with the Vancouver Trolley Company and the Vancouver Museum. On this program, riders get a bus tour of the city, focusing on some of the city’s most famous murders and hauntings. A [...]