Vancouver Squatting #2: False Creek water front slums between 1956-1960 (VPL). No electricity, sanitation, sewer, fresh water hook-ups, and yet there were enough trades to construct these modest homes, many of which would rise and fall with the tides. Such tenuous moorage was this.
From the 1930's to 1950's the City of Vancouver issued numerous eviction orders to clear the floating slums out, with mixed success. Some of these itinerant drifters abandoned waterside for dry land housing while others simply pushed off and resettled around the bend. Vancouver's Dickensian past in full gloom below. (see Sheryl Salloum in Raincoast Chronicles No. 19)
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