Talk:Dominion Building
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[edit] Helyer's Death
I've got to find the relevant passage in Morley or Matthews; Helyer's death was a suicide related to the collapse of the Dominion Trust in 1913; "the staircase in front of the building" isn't quite the right syntax; there are two staircases inside the building; the one towards the main doors are the ones in question; as it's written it sounds like there's a staircase on the front of the building, which of course there isn't.
Comment about Sun Tower was true, so I put it back in; not sure why IP-address user decided it had to come out.Skookum1 14:00, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
Have since come across two other refs as to how he died; both suicide by gun, one version saying in his office with a pistol, the version I came across tonight at BPL was by shotgun-blast at his Kerrisdale (?) home. Unless it's not Helyer, but someone else who offed himself during the same crash....no, it wasn't Helyer; it was the guy who lost everybody else's dough in the collapse of the Dominion Trust.....but I thought he took a dive down the inside stairwell (?)...one of these days I'm going to have to try and sort out my fuzzy recollections of all this stuff; pre-Great War Vancouver was a fairly busy place "scandal-wise".Skookum1 09:35, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
