Battle of Ballantyne Pier
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The Battle of Ballantyne Pier occurred in Ballantyne Pier during a docker's strike in Vancouver, British Columbia, in June 1935.
Mounted police chasing protestors through Vancouver's East End during the Battle of Ballantyne Pier
Police guarding the Heatley Street entrance to the pier, shortly before the riot.
One contingent of police specials recruited to police the 1935 longshoremen's strike, posing outside the court house, now the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Bloody Sunday (1938)
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Bloody Sunday was the conclusion of a month-long "sitdowners' strike" by unemployed men at the main post office in Vancouver, British Columbia. It was Depression-era Vancouver's final violent clash be
Battle of Ballantyne Pier
…technology was introduced in Vancouver policing that day: tear gas. Another major clash between the unemployed and the police took place in 1938. On Bloody Sunday, relief camp workers were violently evicted from the main Vancouver Post Office by means of tear gas bombs and police clubs (primarily wielded by the…
A plainclothes Mountie clubbing protesters leaving the post office
Police cordon during eviction of demonstrators
Protesters throwing rocks after eviction of sitdowners from the post office
Unemployed protesters parading back to the East End on Bloody Sunday