Picketers protested racial discrimination outside the Downtowner Motel at 667 Thurlow Street on August 7, 1959, after the Vancouver Sun published a story about the eviction of a bi-racial Seattle couple. Photo by Don Timbrell/Vancouver Sun
Police raided the three-day student occupation of Simon Fraser University's administration centre on November 23, 1968, and arrested 114 who defied an ultimatum to leave. The students' concerns were university admissions, transference of credits, access to student records, and education funding. Photo by Dan Scott/Vancouver Sun
Geraldine Larkin, 20, of the Native Alliance for Red Power, picketed a meeting of the National Association of Principals and Administrators of Indian Residences at the Blue Boy Motor Hotel on March 12, 1968, to protest the effect of residential schools on First Nations culture. Photo by Ralph Bower/Vancouver Sun
Sixty housewives and their children protested the high cost of meat and groceries at the Woodward's food store at Oakridge shopping centre on June 3, 1969, the second day of food price demonstrations around Vancouver. Photo by Dan Scott/Vancouver Sun
On October 15, 1970, in what was dubbed the Battle of Jericho, police evicted squatters who, for six weeks, had occupied empty military barracks at the Jericho armed forces base. Photo by Ken Oakes/Vancouver Sun
During the Rolling Stones concert at the Pacific Coliseum on June 3, 1972, 285 police clashed with 2,000 would-be concert goers, including members of the notorious Clark Park gang, some of whom threw rocks, bottles, and Molotov cocktails. Twenty-two people were arrested and thirty-one police officers injured. Photo by Dan Scott/Vancouver Sun
Members of the Ku Klux Klan distributed pamphlets protesting communism in the 100-block Hastings Street on February 2, 1982. Photo by George Diack/Vancouver Sun
Punks for peace with signs saying "Free the Five," referring to the Squamish Five, at the 65,000-strong annual peace march on April 23,1983. Photo by David Clark/Province
Students shouting "Walkout!" swarmed out of six Vancouver secondary schools on January 24, 1985, to protest education cutbacks. Photo by John Denniston/Province
Clayoquot Sound logging protesters gathered at daybreak on July 7, 1993, at the Kennedy River Bridge in preparation for another day of confrontations with loggers and RCMP enforcing a Supreme Court injunction. Photo by Mark van Manen/Vancouver Sun
Animal rights activists presented signed petitions opposing the captivity of whales to the Vancouver Aquarium on February 11, 1992. Photo by Jon Murray/Province
The epicenter of the Stanley Cup riot on June 14, 1994, was the corner of Robson and Burrard. Vancouver Mayor Philip Owen said at the time that the incident indicated "deep social problems across the country." Photo by Steve Bosch/Vancouver Sun
A woman opposed to the upcoming 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver participated in a protest march on January 22, 2010, one of many demonstrations against the Games. Photo by Stuart Davis/PNG
A second Stanley Cup riot occurred after the Vancouver Canucks lost Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final against the Boston Bruins in Vancouver on June 15, 2011. Rioters smashed windows, looted businesses, and set cars on fire, including two police vehicles. Photo by Jason Payne/PNG