Off the ‘Cuff

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 Global [...]

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 iteration [...]

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 outspoken heritage interpreter [...]

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 day, [...]

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 ping pong ball!) but it’s 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…