Cover of the book At Home With History - The Untold Secrets of Greater Vancouver’s Heritage Homes by Eve Lazarus. The painting on the cover is by Richard Tetrault titled Hawks Avenue, and it was painted in 1975. Book description from the Anvil Press website:
At Home with History is a collection of real life stories that bring to life the glamorous and not-so-glamorous social histories of selected heritage homes in Greater Vancouver—stories of brothels and bootleggers, secret rooms, and Shakespearean-style murders. An Italian family survives the depression by selling booze and sandwiches from their eastside home. A Shaughnessy mansion headquarters the Ku Klux Klan and then a children’s hospice. A secret radio room is uncovered during renovations. Every home has a social history and a genealogy that tells a tremendous amount about the history of the times and offers up a sense of place…
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