Along the No. 20 Line: "The No. 20 rolls down Powell past the Drake Hotel on Princess and the crossing to Ballantyne and the other docks of this sector. Did you ever hear of "Bloody Ballantyne?" (p. 26)
"Jackson and Powell, and there are the Powell Street Grounds, a flat dusty square lined with a few trees. Maybe there'll be a ball game later in the afternoon, but now it's mainly populated by groups of pensioners talking. There have been other moments too. For two generations the Powell Street Grounds have been a gathering point for rallies and demonstrations and the assembly area for labour marches. The history of working-class struggles is almost a part of its dust." (p.27)
"Citizens Protest Police Terror"; Bloody Sunday; the public protests
police brutality in Vancouver's Oppenhiemer Park after the RCMP beat
several demonstrators at the Vancouver post office." 1938 (CVA)
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