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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Press Release</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Vancouver
Police Museum launches NEW 'Sins of the City' tour: RED LIGHT RENDEZVOUS.</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">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.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">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. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">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.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">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. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">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. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">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 <a href="http://vancouverpolicemuseum.ca/sins-of-the-city/#http://vancouverpolicemuseum.ca/sins-of-the-city/" target="_blank">http://vancouverpolicemuseum.ca/sins-of-the-city/
</a>. Participants are also invited to visit the Police Museum on the day of
their walking tour at no additional charge. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b>Media Contact:</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Rosslyn Shipp</span><br></p><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Museum Director</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Vancouver Police Museum <br>240 East Cordova Street<br>Vancouver, BC V6A 1L3</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><a value="+16046653346">604.665.2207</a><br><a href="http://www.vancouverpolicemuseum.ca/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.vancouverpolicemuseum.ca</a></div></div></div></div>
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