Your socialist neighbor - North Side council runoff brims with culture war overtones
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Candidates for San Antonio City Council District 9 including Erika Moe, and from left, Patrick Von Dohlen and current District 9 City Councilman John Courage participate in the Greater Harmony Hills Neighborhood Association s Candidate Debate Night at Vogt Auction House in San Antonio on April 8, 2021.Lisa Krantz / Staff photographer
City Council member John Courage, a progressive Democrat from the city’s most Republican district, vividly remembers June 25, 2020, when several young Black activists came before the council to protest police brutality and implored white and Hispanic elders on the dais to raise their fists in solidarity.
Local enthusiast Murray Chambers got into all these events because he took photographs for Motorsport in British Columbia magazine publisher Doug Harder. Harder also produced the demolition derbies that began in Callister Park across the street from the PNE in the Sixties and later through the Seventies and Eighties on the fairgrounds during the annual PNE Fair. In 1970, he brought Hollywood film stunt driver Ron Walker to Vancouver to deliver a thrill show on wheels.
“I needed to give the demolition drivers an hour or so to repair their cars after the heat races and get them running again for the main event which wrapped up the show. So, I got the idea to have a stunt driving segment,” he recalls.
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