Today I’m researching writing the third book in the Klondike Era Mystery series, and find myself digging into what was going on in the 1890’s and early 1900’s. I keep discovering wonderful facts that belong in book four, or maybe it’s book five. Which doesn’t help me much with book three.

And why do I find it so funny that when what is now the Museum of Vancouver opened on April 17, 1894, the first donation was a stuffed swan?  (Credit for that tidbit goes to the late Chuck Davis’ wonderful site on Vancouver history, www.vancouverhistory.ca.)