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Title: Exhibition grounds Vancouver B.C. 1914
Description: 8 white signs in front of tent and building
Date: ,
Collection: Philip Francis Postcard Collection

Title: Anti-Apartheid Network rally at Pat Carney's office, Soweto Day
Date: 1986-06-16

Title: VIA Rail rally, CN [Canadian National Railway] station, May 16
Date: 1984-05-16

Title: Native groups rally [at] Canada Place over Globe 90 conference
Date: 1990-03-21

Title: Stop the subs rally, Robson Square with EAR [End the Arms Race], church groups
Date: 1988-06-28

Title: Walk for Peace, 1984
Date: 1984-04-28

Title: YCL [Young Communist League?], YND [Young New Democrats?], B.C. SoF, unemployed demonstration at PNE parade reviewing stand
Date: 1977-08-20

Title: Rally for Justice outside Socreds social policy hearings, Italian Cultural Centre
Date: 1987-04-24

Title: Vancouver District Labour Council march and rally against Bills 19 and 20
Description: In an action called by the Vancouver and District Labour Council, trade unionists march through downtown Vancouver streets to rally in Robson Square against Bills 19 and 20. The rally, which drew 7,000 people, also kicked off the B.C. Federation of Labour's work-to-rule and ban on overtime, the first phase of job action against the legislation.
Show moreIn an action called by the Vancouver and District Labour Council, trade unionists march through downtown Vancouver streets to rally in Robson Square against Bills 19 and 20. The rally, which drew 7,000 people, also kicked off the B.C. Federation of Labour's work-to-rule and ban on overtime, the first phase of job action against the legislation. Photograph shows VDLC president Frank Kennedy addressing the rally.
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Date: 1987-05-20

Title: Christian Task Force vigil outside U.S. consulate on Central America
Description: United Church minister Barry Morris at rally outside U.S. consulate protesting U.S. military aid to contras in Central America and in support of Chilean national transport strike. Chile's truckers and other transport workers walked out July 2 and 3 in 48-hour strike against General Augusto Pinochet's military regime.
Date: 1986-07-08

Title: Youth demonstration outside employer council over [Jim] Matkin's remarks re: draft
Description: Unemployed activists protest outside office of B.C. Employers' Council over comments by Council president to the MacDonald Commission June 11 that a return to compulsory military service in Canada would alleviate the problem of unemployment.
Date: 1984-06-20

Title: CBRT [& GW] [Canadian Brotherhood of Railway, Transport and General Workers] protest at Socred town hall meeting
Description: CBRT protesters outside a New Westminster hotel slam Social Credit government for failing to protect jobs in B.C., allowing forest company Fletcher Challenge to sell off its towboat division with the loss of 60 jobs. CBRT and IWA Canada reps later attended a town hall meeting with Premier Bill Vander Zalm and Socred cabinet members inside the hotel
Show moreCBRT protesters outside a New Westminster hotel slam Social Credit government for failing to protect jobs in B.C., allowing forest company Fletcher Challenge to sell off its towboat division with the loss of 60 jobs. CBRT and IWA Canada reps later attended a town hall meeting with Premier Bill Vander Zalm and Socred cabinet members inside the hotel where IWA hit the government for allowing Fletcher Challenge to close two lumber mills. They demanded legislation to prevent the closures.
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Date: 1990-09-18

Title: Pickets at defence seminar, Holiday Inn
Date: 1984-12-10

Title: Rally at CRTC [Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission] against Pay-TV
Date: 1984-01-18

Title: Unemployed Action Centre demonstration against Money Mart
Description: Unemployed Action Centre demonstration against high-interest payday loan and cheque-cashing company Money Mart at West Broadway location.
Date: 1984-01-25

Title: Office of Solidarity with Chile pickets at consulate, North Vancouver
Date: 1983-05-17

Title: Office of Solidarity with Chile pickets at consulate, North Vancouver
Date: 1983-05-17

Title: Protest on day of first cruise missile test, Vancouver Peace Assembly
Date: 1984-03-06

Title: Demonstration at Hyatt Regency, protesting [Henry] Kissinger visit
Date: 1984-02-22

Title: Arrival of [Save] South Moresby Caravan in Vancouver
Description: Some 1,500 people, led by Haida elders and leaders march through Vancouver streets March 17 in opposition to logging on Lyell Island and other areas in the South Moresby chain of Haida Gwaii.
Date: 1986-03-15

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