[BCMA] Press Release - Discover Vancouver's 'Sins of the City' walking tours.

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Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



*Vancouver Police Museum launches NEW 'Sins of the City' tour: RED LIGHT
RENDEZVOUS.*



Vancouver (June 20, 2015) – Local historians like to claim that city was
founded on the barrel of whiskey that a “Gassy” Jack Deighton brought to
this very neighbourhood in 1867, and while Gassy Jack and the sawmill
workers were the cornerstone of the future City of Vancouver, it was the
brothels that helped it grow.



Vancouver's salacious  history is the focus of the latest addition to the
Vancouver Police Museum's 'Sins of the City Walking Tours' launching this
summer. This two-hour guided tour takes participants through the oldest
parts of Vancouver— Strathcona —exploring the early history of the city's
sex trade from the 1880s to the late 1920s.



Learn the stories of the entrepreneurial women who ran the bawdy houses
from Birdie Stewart, notorious Frankie E. Russell and the infamous Kiyoko.
Even through the many attempts to 'clean up' the city even politician and
police knew that these women were a major contribution the thriving economy
of our early city.



Covering over ten city blocks, the tour highlights  the transitions of
neighborhoods and the evolution of the city's growth through immigration,
the building of the railway and how the ladies skirted the laws and adapted
to each new change forced upon them.



In the middle all this history sits the Vancouver Police Museum, home to
the historic Vancouver Coroner's Court, Morgue and Autopsy facility, and
City Analyst Lab which provides a unique perspective on Vancouver's history
like no other museum in the city. The Sins of the City walking tours
provide a peak into the fascinating shared history of Vancouver citizens
and our police department.



Join local historians, Catherine Rose and Jesse Donaldson for a walk back
in time through Vancouver's shadier history. Red Light Rendezvous and the
original Chinatown tour: Vice, Dice and Opium Pipes take place, rain or
shine, on Thursdays at 5 p.m. and Fridays and Saturdays at 3 p.m. from June
to October. The fee is $20 for adults, $16 for students and seniors;
Reservations are required 24 hours in advance by purchasing your ticket
online at http://vancouverpolicemuseum.ca/sins-of-the-city/
<http://vancouverpolicemuseum.ca/sins-of-the-city/#http://vancouverpolicemuseum.ca/sins-of-the-city/>.
Participants are also invited to visit the Police Museum on the day of
their walking tour at no additional charge.



*Media Contact:*

Rosslyn Shipp
Museum Director

Vancouver Police Museum
240 East Cordova Street
Vancouver, BC  V6A 1L3
604.665.2207
www.vancouverpolicemuseum.ca
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