pasttensevancouver: Personal Fave #6 War Vets Picketing Hotel Vancouver, Friday 4 January 1946 After WWII, ex-servicemen demanded that the old Hotel Vancouver be used to alleviate the housing crisis. Eventually they occupied the building and ran it themselves as a hostel. The action led directly to concrete housing reforms. Source: Pacific Tribune, 4 January 1946, via Jill Wade, “A Palace for the Public”: Housing Reform and the 1946 Occupation of the Old Hotel Vancouver,” BC Studies 69-70, Spring/Summer 1986.

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Personal Fave #6

War Vets Picketing Hotel Vancouver, Friday 4 January 1946

After WWII, ex-servicemen demanded that the old Hotel Vancouver be used to alleviate the housing crisis. Eventually they occupied the building and ran it themselves as a hostel. The action led directly to concrete housing reforms.

Source: Pacific Tribune, 4 January 1946, via Jill Wade, “A Palace for the Public”: Housing Reform and the 1946 Occupation of the Old Hotel Vancouver,” BC Studies 69-70, Spring/Summer 1986.

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