False Creek Park Protest, Tuesday 31 May 1960 East End kids protesting the City’s plan to turn False Creek Park (today’s Strathcona Park) into a city works yard. Mayor Alsbury objected to the Save False Creek Park delegation bringing their placards into City Hall as it was “not in keeping with British parliamentary practice.” Ex-alderman and Council of Women representative Anna Sprott was also opposed to the signs because, she said, it was “undignified” for women to carry them and that such images might find their way into the Russian press. Source: Vancouver Sun
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False Creek Park Protest, Tuesday 31 May 1960

East End kids protesting the City’s plan to turn False Creek Park (today’s Strathcona Park) into a city works yard. Mayor Alsbury objected to the Save False Creek Park delegation bringing their placards into City Hall as it was “not in keeping with British parliamentary practice.” Ex-alderman and Council of Women representative Anna Sprott was also opposed to the signs because, she said, it was “undignified” for women to carry them and that such images might find their way into the Russian press.

Source: Vancouver Sun

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