Cycling on Deadman’s Island, 1898
Source: Photo by Richard H Trueman, City of Vancouver Archives #St Pk P317
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Playing checkers in Stanley Park, 1937
Source: Photo by James Crookall, City of Vancouver Archives #260-645
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Mother’s Day, Stanley Park, Sunday 12 May 1935
From the Vancouver Sun:
Demonstration Demands Abolition of Relief Camps.
Protesting against the relief camp system, a Mother’s Day Parade from Cambie Street grounds to Stanley Park and a demonstration on the Park featured Mother’s Day here Sunday. Three hundred women and 1400 men led by the C.C.F. band, started out from the grounds shortly after noon. four women pushing baby carriages before them marked the first line of the parade, which included single girls on relief, and Chinese unemployed. … Before the Malkin Memorial Shell in Stanley Park the women marched into the outline of a huge heart. This was solidly filled with the men, groups of whom bore huge letters to form the words “Mothers Abolish the Relief Camps.”
Source: Stanley Park History
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Trotsky, Stanley Park, 192?
Trotsky was captured by anti-Bolshevik troops in Siberia and brought to Stanley Park in 1919. He weighed 520 lbs and died on 16 July 1939.
Source: City of Vancouver Archives #371-2843.1
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All Season’s Park, Thursday 20 April 1972
Forty years ago today, the All Season’s squatter’s camp at the entrance to Stanley Park was torn down and the squatters kicked out. The squat started almost a year earlier as a way to block the development of a Four Season’s hotel. Although the battle was lost, the war was eventually won, and in the 1980s the site became Devonian Harbour Park.
Source: Vancouver Sun
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The Stanley Park Hotel, 1890
Source: City of Vancouver Archives #St Pk P34, via AuthentiCity
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February in Vancouver, Monday 10 February 1930
Source: Vancouver Sun
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Goat on the Lam, Monday 23 January 1967
Russell the mountain goat busted out of the zoo and lived wild in Stanley Park for a couple years. Park authorities redoubled their efforts to capture Russell when he took up jumping on cars for sport.
For more on Russell and lots of other strange tales from the park, check out The Stanley Park Explorer by Richard M Steele (Whitecap, 1985)
Source: Vancouver Sun
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