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
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
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.
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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.