Off the 'Cuff

This summer, our student interns are updating our blog with their experiences working at the Police Museum. Julie-Ann is one of our fantastic curatorial students who is going to return to her studies at the University of Alberta this fall and start her own blog because she’ll miss writing ours… This piece is written by [...]

A few weeks ago, we went out with a GPS device (Global Positioning System) and a few magnetic key boxes, hiding them around the city. This marked the start of our participation in a little sport/hobby called geocaching. What is geocaching? According to Wikipedia: Geocaching is an outdoor activity in which the participants use a [...]

Want to be a part of the first sneak preview of the newly revised Sins of the City tour for 2009? Next Thursday (June 4) at 6:00 PM, we’ll be hosting a special tour for our twitter friends, digging a little deeper and being a little braver than usual as we show off the newest [...]

Every year at about this time, we start posting our summer employment opportunities at the Police Museum. Some of our summer positions have not yet had their funding confirmed, but I’m pleased to announce that we’ve posted our first job today here. Part-Time Employment Opportunity Sins of the City Walking Tour Guide Are you an [...]

Last year, we did an interview for Global-TV about Sins of the City, showing the cameraman a few of the highlights of the naughty little tour. Naturally, the stories of Detective’s Sinclair and Ricci came up and we showed them a picture of the two of them, in an opium den under Chinatown. The next [...]

Frequently, at the end of the Sins of the City tour, I’ll ask participants about their favourite part of the tour. The top answers are usually pretty predictable: opium dens the old brothel district Blood Alley the ping pong ball the tunnels under Chinatown Each one has a special place in my heart (especially the [...]

We talk a fair bit about the tunnels under Vancouver’s Chinatown on the “Sins of the City” walking tour.  Real? Speculation? Check out this article about tunnels under Portland, Tacoma, and Seattle: http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/mysterious-chinese-tunnels.html I’ll post soon about the “truth” behind our own tunnels…