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Home detectives uncover history in houses, neighborhoods

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The first house history that James Johnstone researched didn't uncover a grandiose story of former celebrity residents or the scene of a gruesome murder. The home was one of four houses built by a Vancouver, B.C., builder between 1908 and 1910 and was home to a Vancouver police detective, whose picture still hangs in the city's police museum.

Johnstone, a Vancouver resident, has taken his curiosity of house histories and turned it into a business, Home History Research Services.

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