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A former manager of the legendary Vancouver punk band D.O.A. has died.
The news of Ken Lester s passing came in a post by musician and painter Jean Smith on her Facebook page. Smith is a member of the Vancouver band Mecca Normal with Lester s brother David.
D.O.A. hired Lester in 1979 after the band went on its first North American tour. He parted ways with the band in 1988, according to frontman Joe Keithley s 2003 memoir,
I, Shithead: A Life in Punk.
In 2015, Keithley told
Straight contributor Allan MacInnis that it was Lester s idea to put the famous image of Margaret Trudeau going commando on the cover of the band s 1978 EP,
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