Sensational Vancouver by Eve Lazarus.
Fantastic read, wonderful historic photographs.
Inside cover reads in part:
"... the Vancouver of the first half of the 20th Century was a hotbed of civic corruption. The top job at the Vancouver Police Department was a revolving door with the average tenure for a police chief of just four years. ... Detective Joe Ricci's beat was the opium dens and gambling joints of Chinatown, with Lurancy Harris, the first female cop in Canada - patrolled the high-end brothels of Alexander Street ... "
Softcover, 158 pages.
Anvil Press Publishers, 2014. 3rd Printing, 2015.
~ Printed and Bound in Canada ~
Fantastic read, wonderful historic photographs.
Inside cover reads in part:
"... the Vancouver of the first half of the 20th Century was a hotbed of civic corruption. The top job at the Vancouver Police Department was a revolving door with the average tenure for a police chief of just four years. ... Detective Joe Ricci's beat was the opium dens and gambling joints of Chinatown, with Lurancy Harris, the first female cop in Canada - patrolled the high-end brothels of Alexander Street ... "
Softcover, 158 pages.
Anvil Press Publishers, 2014. 3rd Printing, 2015.
~ Printed and Bound in Canada ~
