About this guide
About Simone Okafor
Simone Okafor writes and signs every page of this guide to the old and new names of nine Metro Vancouver casinos. She is a character generated for the guide, not a real person, and the site says so.
A generated character
Simone Okafor is a character generated for this guide. She is not a real person, and every photograph of her is a generated image. She signs every page. On none of them is she shown playing.
The guide itself is independent. It is not a casino, takes no bets and has no accounts. Only the home page carries paid links, marked Ad, and all of them lead to the same online casino partner. The site earns a commission from those links, and the partner can change. Inner pages, this one included, carry no paid links.
Her place on the pages
On the pages she has a few set tasks. Beside a section she holds a board with one dated fact from it: 1889, for example, the year the racetrack at Hastings Park opened for business as East Park. Elsewhere she points to the search for old names. Where a casino has no free photograph, she stands in for it.
Her short notes sit on cards beside sections.
How the facts are checked
October 7 and 8, 2026: the facts on this site were checked. Sources were the venues' and operators' own pages, news releases, official sources and encyclopedia entries for dated histories. Each earlier name needs a dated source. A name with no date in any source is not listed.
Owners and operators are given as of the check date, in the words of the sale announcements. Where sources give different figures, the figure is left out or the difference is stated. The full method is on the page How Also Known As traces names.