Talk:McAuley Park

History.....

The neighbourhood itself has a particular ethnic and commercial history, but the park in local street lore is famous as the location where two (three?) gangsters were gunned from behind, their truck crashing into the flagpoles; public execution, rather not say the names as I cant' remember the sequence of events; Jim Dossamjh I think was one, can't remember the other guy; Bindy Johal was shot as part of the same series of events; I'm nowhere near anything I could get dates and such on, not my kind of research; The area is a locality known before development/logging as "the tea swamp" as it was an upland dale with lots of tea-coloured (cedar-stained) water/bog; if I'm not mistaken a history of Mount Pleasant out there has some interesting info on it; the Polish and German halls are just up Fraser a bit, and at one time it was prime real estate, given by the grandeur of certain houses on certain streets. Anyway, the crime history at this location is more than notable enough; if soembody in Vancouver wants to dig around in the Sun and Provicne files or wahatever CP or the networks have online; not the only BC crime story that's not in Wikipedia; not my kind of thing, again, but intersting material for someone who is.....Skookum1 (talk) 07:06, 9 August 2008 (UTC)