William Wasbrough Foster
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Major-General William Wasbrough Foster, CMG, DSO, VD was a noted mountaineer, Conservative Party politician, businessman, and chief constable in British Columbia, Canada, in addition to his distinguis
Colonel W. W. Foster as Vancouver's chief constable in 1935
Foster during a 1925 expedition
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.
William Wasbrough Foster
…white women any longer, and at least thirty women were forced to seek other employment. Foster had somewhat of a showdown with communism during the Battle of Ballantyne Pier on 18 June 1935 when a group of about 1000 longshoremen and supporters marched behind a contingent of war veterans carrying the Union Jack headed towards…
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.