Here's a selection of the newspaper articles I wrote for the Vancouver Courier. Just click on the page numbers to read the article.

Star Gazer   page 1  2  3  4
UBC astronomer Jaymie Matthews' suitcase-sized satellite telescope is providing a more detailed look at the stars than ever before.

Hello, operator   page 1  2  3  4
In the days before 911 service, radiotelephone operators were a lifeline to small communities in B.C.

Spirt of Christmas Past   page 1  2  3  4
Decades ago, Christmas meant buggy rides through snowy woods, enormous feasts -- and legions of squabbling tree sellers on Vancouver's streets.

Logging Camps Revisited   page 1  2  3
Archaeologist Bob Muckle is excavating the 20th Century logging camps of North Vancouver.

High Times   page 1  2  3  4
Retired drug squad officer Edward "Nick" Carter remembers the days of opium dens and police raids.

Christmas 1906 page 1  2  3  4  5
A century of Christmas celebrations, from 1906 to current day.

Hollow Hideaway page 1  2  3  4
Stanley Park's 600-year-old hollow tree remains has been one of Vancouver's most-photographed landmarks, ever since the city was born.

Grandfather's War   page 1
Tracing the footsteps of my grandfather, John Lloyd Hughes, who served with the Canadian 46th Battalion at Ypres and the Somme in 1916.

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