Bloody Sunday

Labour folksinger Tom Hawken performs at commemorative event at the federal building that formerly housed the Post Office to mark the 40th anniversary of the 1938 occupation of the Vancouver Post and Art Gallery by single unemployed seeking to draw attention to the plight of the single unemployed. The sitdowners at the PO were tear-gassed and then beaten by RCMP with billy clubs as they fled the building on Bloody Sunday — Father's Day, June 19, 1938.