YOU GOT TROUBLE!- POLICING THE VANCOUVER WATERFRONT IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY- MADISON HESLOP

#vancouver,
Madison Heslop, a professor of Canadian history at Western Washington University, delivers an entertaining lecture on the murder of a policeman on Vancouver's sleazy waterfront in 1913, showing how the toxic concentration of rootless male labourers, rooming houses and liquor outlets prompted a kind of moral panic in the wider community and a desire to clean up the city and rid it of undesirables.

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