Locations

Links and information on the locations relating to or directly referenced in ''The Unnatural and Accidental Women. ''

Locations mentioned in The Unnatural and Accidental Women
First hotel/location in the play. Presented as the location of Aunt Shadie/Rita Louise James/Rebecca's mother's death.
 * Beacon Hotel

Links to the origins of the Beacon Hotel and it's many names and addresses over the years, as well it's history as one of the worst drug den's in the city, and the government's recent commitment to renovate the building for social housing.

http://changingvancouver.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/beacon-hotel-west-hastings-street/

http://thetyee.ca/News/2008/03/20/Backpackers/

http://www.endhomelessnessnow.ca/homelessness-and-mental-health/how-the-province-transformed-a-hastings-street-hotel/

http://www2.news.gov.bc.ca/news_releases_2009-2013/2013EMNG0001-000025.htm In the bar. Rebecca sits and drinks. Later, Mavis and Ron play pool, bump into Rebecca, Barber takes Rebecca's Wallet. The Woman on her Island in the Sea
 * Empress Hotel
 * Glenaird Hotel
 * Pigeon Square

Rebecca walks Hastings Street searching the neighbourhood, trying to make sense of all the losses and hoping she can find her mother.
 * Hastings Street
 * Barbershop

Valerie & The Dresser Verna follows the airplane down from the 7th floor to the 3rd floor and room 315; the slide for this hotel reads The Wrong Room - Balmoral Hotel. Location of Violet's murder Rebecca's Apartment, "Known colloquially as "Kits", the neighbourhood is named after Squamish chief August Jack Khatsahlano."
 * Clifton Hotel
 * Balmoral Hotel
 * Niagara Hotel
 * Kitsilano

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsilano

MENTIONED or BACKDROP

IGA, Woolworths, Army and Navy

OTHER

Reception/Lobby/Happy Hunting Ground/Heaven.