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I lived up the street when i was a kid... YIIIKES

I know two young guys who did "hard time" in Oakalla back in the late '60s-early '70s. To this day it deeply angers me that these two young men had to serve time there. Both of them were teenagers, neither of them had criminal records, and yet they were sent to Oakalla for "trafficking" hash and pot. One guy was only 18, just out of high school. He sold a $5 gram of hash to an undercover "narc". He got a year in Oakalla and it scarred him for the rest of his life. The other guy sold a single ounce of pot to a "narc" and he got 1 1/2 years for trafficking. Both these guys were thrown into general population with rapists, murderers, and hardened criminals. Talk about total injustice and outrageous, draconian laws back then in this modern age of legalized pot. To this day I think all those people like my two friends should be compensated for this gross and disgusting violation of justice. It sure was different back in those days and I will never lose my anger at the system we had back then.

Incredible! Thank you for this amazing retrospective look at Vancouver and its activist history. So sad what’s happening to this place I love. Greedheads have won. Time to go, I guess. Peace.

Fantastic.

Yes it’s hard to believe it was just forest a decade before because it wasn’t- history is a lie these cities have always been there

Probably way easier to get laid back then aswell 😂

Hey Mark, nice to see you got your 15 minutes of fame. Such a long time since st. Pats eh?

That was so amazing to see the past and what everything looked like the one for me growing up was the Woodwards building I remember that as if it was yesterday my parents would take me there to go shopping and i always remember going there to buy our dogs dogfood from there I can even still see the cans of dogfood we bought it used to have a big huge saint Bernard on them and they came in the colors blue and red and possibly a green one not too sure !!!!??? But boy what a memory to remember THANKYOU again that's just so so amazing walking around back into time!!!!!!!!!! WOW!!!!!🍁🇨🇦🍁💔👍🌹✝️🛐🙏🕊️🌹💯🏆💞💕

I remember being most of the inmates including myself being ill most of the time. We would wake up at the sounds of birds chirping on our tier floors because some of the windows were broken at the top of the 50 foot high prison walls adjacent our cells. The prison was cold most of the time as well as damp air flow. Every morning an inmate was released to go to the basement of the prison to get coffee from a huge 4 foot high Thermos for the inmates on his tier. All they gave him was an open wash pale with no lid to collect the coffee. After it was brought up the inmates would all dip their cups into the pale and dip in again for refills. The place was a disease centre. The inmates now have it pretty good I'm told. Good ol' days lol lol.

bet they were thanking god for those street car and automobiles, cause all them horses must of stunk up the town real bad in those days

the drugs have changed (names. they're still opioids) and the faces have changed, but the attitudes and vilification remain the same.

Vancouver was much cleaner in 2007. I forgot about how much nicer it was.

14:14 the May 1887 photo is of the first transcontinental passenger train arriving *at Vancouver*. Such passenger trains had been arriving at Port Moody for the previous year.

George Alexander Walkem was the *step* father of Ray Bicknell's wife, Margaret Louise Stanhope Byrn. This George Walkem was well-connected yes, not least because he was the nephew of twice-BC-premier George Anthony Walkem. And connected roots go deeper, as Miss Byrn's great-grandfather, Charles Sydenham Wylde, was Her Majesty's revenue officer at Brownsville (ie across the river from New Westminster) in the early colonial period of BC's existence.

Wow, that sounds really great, loved your telling of showing the stuff in the okanagan!

Watching this in 2024

Some of the celebrities narrating the 2007 film are very familiar to Vancouverites of decades past!

Notice streetcars run on the left side of the street. Also, pedestrians cross wherever they want to.

I grew up by Windermere Street. Great views and a very quiet neighborhood. Went down to the Ravine all the time. Was so cool 😎. Loved the area but live on the west side now. I loved that firehall. Mom said the tallest building from our backyard was the Hotel Vancouver. Great presentation.

Very well done.. I saw all the pk gang front and centre. I grew up in projects on Normandy and Worthing Drives.

I'm a decendant of several French Canadian fur trappers and indigenous women, and a Hudson Bay worker and another indigenous women .Very interesting that someone cares about this history. I feel like I'm the only one because it's my heritage .😄😊

hoagans alley mysteriously vanishes from history

Friend of mine spent time there and I did volunteer work up to just before it was shut down. My friend has his stories of what it was like being an inmate and I can add my own as a volunteer. I think some of his humour is on the sick side and mostly on the side of the guards. From my experience I can say that some guards were excellent and really wanted to help the inmates and others were more inclined to make their life a living hell. There is also the fact that some were not convicted and were set free upon their Court appearance. Yet for most guards they were already convicted in their minds.

You overlooked renaissance man Wes Hartley from the states. Prolific writer, poet , merry prankster , yippy ,art collector and, mentor to many Kits lads that would have ended up in the slammer if not for his intervention. God bless you Wes rip .

cant believe its been almost 40 years since i was a convict serving time in Oakallas east wing and westgate B for minor property crime i served 18 months out of a two year less a day sentence in 1983/84 i did work a bit on the work gangs maintaining the grounds or digging the fish pond on the NW side of the property our gang boss guard was named murphy . when i was not working i was doing tattoos or drawing greeting cards for other inmates got into a couple of fights one being with a guy named machete eddie lakes spent 14 days in the hole over that one . i also helped smuggle in weed during visits with tennis balls thrown over the east wing yard fence even hopped the fence during a rain storm even dodging the security truck apon release to stash a couple of mikies of whiskey and some hash oil and weed and LSD in a predetermined spot that was arranged by a couple of my old jail work gang buddies managed to get away .i heard that those buddies got thrown in the hole for getting drunk but managed to pass the weed and other contraband on to other inmates that had quite the party in the east wing yard and cell block looking back being reformed and sober for over 35 years now i remember my time there fondly as part of my wayward youth and embrace the fact that i survived through a lot of those crazy times in the lower mainland as there was many that were not so lucky .

Thank you

Seems like people back then are way smarter than today's people

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I lived in the West End in the 80s. Loved it. Pendrell and Cardero. A really interesting lecture. I hope Timmy is feeling better.

Wow. Fats Robertson....you are only scratching the surface of a much, much larger story than the Vance saga.

The comments at the end are far more optimistic about the future than most people would be today.

I recognize a few buildings from my living there in 1990s. Didn't know about driving on Left side. Too bad there,'s no other footage, esp. for old Chinatown etc. The ragtime piano got rather annoying...

Great lecture!

Why would we replace electric trolleys with gas powered vehicles none of this makes sense at all?!!!!!!

Why in the world would we tear down those magnificent structures and put up garbage that doesn't even last 10 years!!!!!???????? Makes zero sense at all!!!

This is good. Especially if you like vancouver.

Traitors are erasing anglo canadian culture.

Great presentation! I love these histories of seemingly innocent topics that reveal so much about our values and attitudes. I will also be more careful when dangling shoes or bags on my handlebars.

I remember watching "stake out" through the fence..t.v was on the catwalk..had no idea at the time it was filmed in new west..sooo.. riot scene..cops are running down the stairs ..look over to the left..wait..wtf.. dont remember east west or whatever..

I GREW UP at 1460 Nelson & Nicola street right across the street from Firehall #6 went to Lord Roberts School in the early 60's / early 70's . There was no fences or Security Guards to keep us away from exploring the construction sites in the evening or on the weekends we would roam free in these tall buildings under construction no flashlight sometimes we were 7-8-9 or even 12 stories high we could find nails/screws and hammers/saws every thing we needed to build us a BOYS FORT (No Girls Allowed) we never fell down a elevator shaft we never got hurt maybe skinned our knees or stepped on a nail WE WERE SOO LUCKY THAT WE ALL LIVED running rampant through a construction site sometimes the Policeman would chase us away we would just go to another construction site

William Harbeck was my 3rd cousin, once removed. He was a great videographer. Very scandalous personally. His body was recovered, body #35. He is buried in Ohio.😮

3L4 18 (1988)

The brand names peculiar to British Columbia such as : Roger’s sugar, Nabob coffee, Purdy’s chocolate bring back memories of my childhood even though I haven’t lived in North America for over 30 years. I remember Pacific condensed milk and Sun-Rype fruit juice growing up in the Okanagan. It’s only on leaving I realized those brands were specific to that region. I have seen one or two far away from there in Europe and Asia.

Hasn’t changed a bit.

2007 was 16 years ago.

Fascinating to watch😊🌺

У НАС ещё нет Ленина в Октябре. Этой ТВАРИ. А здесь 1907год. И ЛЮДИ ПРОСТО Без БОЛЬШИВЕКОВ ЖИВУТ И СЧАСТЛИВЫ.

I too, went to Faces every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night in 1973-75. What a great place to dance with my bf. So many great memories. Thanks for the piece.Brad Gough was my dance partner at the time

Bert Thomas of Northern Building Supply was one of the driving forces of Vancouver