Off the ‘Cuff

This past week, we paid tribute to a woman who served as Vancouver Police Department’s first female Sergeant. Phyllis Mortimore passed away two weeks ago at the age of 92, after both a long and distinguished career and also a long and distinguished retirement. She helped pave the way for the 316 women that currently [...]

Whew… I’m finally able to spill the beans! It’s been hard to keep things to myself the last few days, knowing this was about to be announced, because we’re really really excited!
Many of you have said some very kind things about how we’ve embraced technology here at the Police Museum. Today, we’re happy to tell [...]

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 [...]

Next Friday, from 6-10AM, the Kid Carson show will be broadcasting live from our museum. We’ll be setting them up in the old Autopsy Suite–a perfect location for a Halloween broadcast. Kid, Nira Arora, Amy Beeman and Benjamin the Butler will all be here.
Of course, to broadcast at 6AM, they’ll need to be here by [...]

Paul Grant was nice enough to let me post his interview with me on this blog. Here is an audio file of the interview:
On the Coast Interview. (5MB, mp3)

Paul Grant is the National Arts Reporter for CBC Radio based in Vancouver. This interview originally appeared on On The Coast (http://www.cbc.ca/onthecoast/) on Wednesday, July 2, 2008.

Paul Grant, who does the Arts Report for CBC Radio One’s “On the Coast” interviewed us today for a segment that will air on Wednesday (July 2nd, 2008). Basically, it was aa quick “highlights” tour of the museum that’ll be edited to about 6 minutes of airtime when all is said and done.
I guess that [...]

In the last 10 months, five human feet clad in tennis shoes have been found on beaches and islands around the Straight of Georgia. (Map available here.)
This story has gained international attention, with an Associated Press news item being published across the US, as well as in the UK, Russia, China and India. Theories abound, [...]