Illustrated Vancouver

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Militant Moms of Raymur, Wednesday 6 January 1971
Concerned for the safety of their children, mothers from the Raymur Housing project in Strathcona lobbied to have a pedestrian overpass built so their children wouldn’t have to cross busy train tracks to get to Seymour Elementary School. After getting nowhere with the City and rail companies, the moms set up an encampment on the tracks and blocked rail traffic to the waterfront. To resolve the issue, the City was forced to build the Keefer Street overpass. For more on this story, check out Viaduct.
As far as I know, this image originally appeared in Open Road, an anarchist newspaper published in Vancouver from the late 1970s to the mid-80s.
Source: Only (A) Beginning: An Anarchist Anthology, via GraveWisdom

Militant Moms of Raymur, Wednesday 6 January 1971

Concerned for the safety of their children, mothers from the Raymur Housing project in Strathcona lobbied to have a pedestrian overpass built so their children wouldn’t have to cross busy train tracks to get to Seymour Elementary School. After getting nowhere with the City and rail companies, the moms set up an encampment on the tracks and blocked rail traffic to the waterfront. To resolve the issue, the City was forced to build the Keefer Street overpass. For more on this story, check out Viaduct.

As far as I know, this image originally appeared in Open Road, an anarchist newspaper published in Vancouver from the late 1970s to the mid-80s.

Source: Only (A) Beginning: An Anarchist Anthology, via GraveWisdom

Sketches of Strathcona by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, a visual artist known as the creator of Haida manga. Featuring 851 Union Street (top left), 864 Keefer Street, (top right), and two more locations perhaps suitable for Guess Where Vancouver; can you identify them?