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A Year in Five Minutes: Vancouver 1971
Pender Street in Chinatown in 1972, which was now part of a designated historic area. Item # CVA 780-447. Photo courtesy of Vancouver Archives.
In 1971, Greenpeace was making waves, there was a riot in Gastown and the CBC started filming a very popular series on the Sunshine Coast.
By Chuck Davis,
1971 census figures for Metropolitan Vancouver
The 1971 census showed the metropolitan Vancouver population had topped the million mark for the first time. One remarkable finding of that census was that Delta’s population had more than tripled in 10 years.
Bowen Island 350
Delta 45,860 (1961 pop. 14,597)
Langley City 4,680
Maple Ridge 24,480
I entered the dim, original-wood-arched narthex or entrance behind a little boy with two blue budgies. In the plush-red-carpeted interior, glowing with a softly lit warmth and quiet but bustling activity on the polished pews, were rabbits, hamsters, a sleeping hedgehog in a lovely velvet pouch, and well-groomed little dogs with pretty bows above their brows, all amazingly well-behaved. As we shuffled up the aisle, past the gleaming fishbowls and little rhinestone-collared kittens, I know that the regular church members and volunteers who cleaned the place were whispering: “Here comes that farmer Anny Scoones with her bunch of dirty hairy mutts” and I cannot deny that this was the case.