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CANADA: VANCOUVER: APEC SUMMIT: STUDENT PROTESTERS ARRESTED
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Police moved in with teargas on Tuesday to hold back student protesters who tore down security fences at the summit of Asian Pacific leaders in Vancouver.
Around a thousand activists marched on the Museum of Anthropology where leaders of the 18 APEC nations were meeting to find a solution to the region's financial meltdown.
Dozens were arrested as the demonstrators vented their fury at the organisation's refusal to tackle human rights issues.
As the leaders lunched, demonstrators tore down chain mail fences to try to break through police lines and take their protest to the heart of APEC.
For a week, part of the campus at the University of British Columbia had been turned into Demoville - a collection of tents set up by the most passionate protesters who are against everything APEC stands for.
Their aim was to crash the summit - where the leaders were debating a range of economic and environmental topics but not human rights.
And on Tuesday, they tried just that.
The protesters were incensed by APEC's refusal to confront Chinese President Jiang Zemin and Indonesian President Suharto over the issue.
Shame - the students chanted, as they pushed into police lines, trying to present a citizen's arrest of Suharto for human rights abuses in East Timor.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Vancouver bicycle police used pepper spray to contain the riot.
Officers wrestled the most persistent protesters to the ground, securing them with plastic handcuffs.
One demonstrator who got hit by the pepper spray lay on the ground in distress as the police tried to ease his evident pain.
After giving first aid to the two arrested protesters, the police hauled them to their feet and marched them off.
Officers had set up a ring of steel around the museum in the tightest security operation ever seen at the university.
Earlier, the students encountered some opposition of their own.
Pro-China activists turned up at their rally to voice support for Beijing's policy on Tibet.
There they met with groups of anti-China demonstrators.
The police were quite happy to take a break and watch the heated debate from the sidelines.
When the summit leaders were about to come out, several students sat down on the road and joined arms to block the exits.
One of the protest leaders called on his fellow students to stage sit-down protests at all the summit entrances.
He was promptly led away by police.
An officer used a megaphone to ask the students to clear, but was shouted down by angry chants - accusing him of supporting dictators and killers.
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Vancouver Skyline, 1970s Canada from 35mm
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Remembering Constable Albert Chartrand
Constable Albert Chartrand was a member of the St. Roch crew from 1938 to 1942, when he sadly died of a heart attack whilst on duty in the Arctic.
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Military parade (Vancouver, ca. 1944) - Royal BC Museum - AAAA2289
Wartime military parade in Vancouver, showing Canadian and U.S. troops, women's military units (probably from the CWAC and WRCNS), bands, shipyard workers, ARP (civil defence) personnel, and propaganda floats, as well as tanks, armoured vehicles, artillery pieces, a mobile searchlight, and various types of aerial bombs. Edited excerpts from a film shot by Thomas W. Whitefoot, in the collection of the BC Archives, Royal BC Museum. For an archival description of the source film, see
CANADA: VANCOUVER: APEC SUMMIT: STUDENTS HUMAN RIGHTS PROTEST
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Students opposed to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum summit in Vancouver have taken their protest one step further by encroaching onto the site where the 18 leaders will hold their final session of talks.
They set up camp on Thursday at the University of British Columbia's Museum of Anthropology in protest at what they claim are wholesale human rights abuses by particular APEC nations.
The students are angry that human rights isn't on the summit's agenda.
Students in Demoville, a tent village in the grounds of the University of British Columbia, took their protest right to the heart of the APEC summit on Thursday.
18 leaders from member nations will meet on University land next week, but the students oppose the summit's agenda saying that APEC should focus on human and civil rights issues.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
As students, as residents of Canada, we have a right to be down at the museum where these conferences are going to be taking place. We have a right to be heard, we have a right to be seen. These leaders have to deal with the resistance to the kind of policies they are implementing. They have to deal with the effects of the policies they are implementing.
SUPERCAPTION: Aiyanas Ormond, Student
Escalating their protest, some of the students bundled up their belongings, pulled down their tents and marched across campus to one of the main sites of the APEC meeting.
Next Tuesday, Canada's Prime Minister, Jean Chretien, will welcome his counterparts from the other APEC economies to the Museum of Anthropology where they will spend the day discussing trade liberalisation and the Asian currency crisis.
The students pitched their tents right outside the museum on Thursday evening.
Mimicking a family photo-call APEC leaders will pose for next week, 18 students lined up outside the glass wall of the building, waving to the press.
There was no sign of the police, as bemused museum security staff watched proceedings.
So far police have not moved in to disperse them but the tent protest is inside a planned security zone due to be set-up early on Friday and the students will not be permitted to stay.
Whether force will be used to evacuate the protesters remains to be seen.
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Grey Cup parade (Vancouver, 1955) - Royal BC Museum - AAAA1696
Vancouver's first Grey Cup parade, filmed in 1955 by Thomas W. Whitefoot. See description AAAA1696 in the BC Archives film collection, Royal BC Museum.
Victoria & the Island Highway (1941-42) - Royal BC Museum - AAAA3013
Highlights of Victoria and area, as featured in edited excerpts from the travelogue Vancouver Island: British Columbia's Island Playground (1941-42). Made by the BC Government Travel Bureau, this was the first colour-and-sound travelogue produced in-house by the BC government. The film showcases the Inner Harbour; downtown streets and shops; cricket, lawn bowling, golf and tennis facilities; swimming at Thetis Lake; the Malahat Drive and Lookout; the making of Cowichan sweaters at Koksilah trading post; and BC Provincial Police Highway Patrol. From BC Archives film item AAAA3013 at the Royal BC Museum. Used by permission.
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Gaumont Graphic, Empress Hotel and Victoria Harbour
This film is a heritage item from Library and Archives Canada and is only available in English.
The latest British Empire hotel is completed in Victoria, B.C. Shots of Canadian National Railways station and panoramic view of Victoria. The Empress Hotel illuminated at night.
Source: Library and Archives Canada. Ernest Belton fonds, 1975-0207. IDC: 23216.
Vancouver in the Seventies - Kate Bird
In the 1970s staff photographers at The Vancouver Sun shot over 4,000 photo assignments every year. They covered news, politics, business, sports and entertainment, in addition to whatever caught their eye. Former librarian at The Vancouver Sun, Kate Bird, authored the book Vancouver in the Seventies and collaborated with the Museum of Vancouver to put on an exhibition of the stunning photos featured in the book.
The exhibition Vancouver in the Seventies is on view at the Museum of Vancouver October 13, 2016 - Feburary 26, 2017
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Fort Macleod Museum of the North West Mounted Police
Metropolitan Toronto Police Museum, Toronto, Ontario. Canada
This museum happens to be the only Police Museum in the City Of Toronto and I was quite amazed on what they have to offer!
The museum is what I call medium sized and has things such as their hats, badges, guns, uniforms, etc.
They even have a police station that you can go inside and even a police cell, but that is locked.
They have plenty of things to see and if You like Police Type Of Stuff then this is the Right Museum For You To Visit on your Next Visit to Toronto, Ontario Canada.
I want to personally Thank the staff members from the Metropolitan Toronto Police Station for putting on a Fantastic Police Style Presentation at the Metropolitan Toronto Police Museum!
Narrated By Howard Paul Shore
Thursday, January 11, 2018
Moodyville: Legend and Legacy
Moodyville: Legend and Legacy
North Vancouver Museum and Archives
The lost sawmill community of Moodyville is the first non-Native settlement on Burrard Inlet. Flanked by forests of towering Douglas fir, the deep-water inlet is a natural place for a lumber mill. In the 1860s, mill owners pioneer lumber sales to overseas markets and the mill becomes British Columbia's largest exporter after the province enters Confederation. Dynamic immigrant entrepreneur Sewell Prescott Moody and two partners buy the mill. The operation and community thrive under his leadership.
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RCMP Heritage Centre in Regina - Saskatchewan, Canada
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) originates back to 1873, when the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) was formed by an act in Parliament by the Canadian government. It later merged with the Dominion Police, to create Canada's unique national, federal, provincial and municipal policing body.
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Exclusive full video of Navy’s underwater search for Cold War “lost nuke” off Canada’s coast
Exclusive full video of the Royal Canadian Navy’s probe of massive underwater metallic object thought to be a lost nuclear bomb from a United States Air Force B-36 Peacemaker that crashed in 1950 during a secret Cold War mission.
In 1950, when the Soviet Union and the West were on the brink of nuclear war, a US Air Force intercontinental bomber on a war games mission off the coast of Western Canada crashed after catastrophic engine failure. Before the crew parachuted out, they jettisoned their atomic bomb over the water. The massive B-36 strategic bomber then crashed into the remote mountains of British Columbia. Five crew members died.
But the nuke was never found. It was the first known lost nuclear bomb, a scenario now referred to as a “Broken Arrow” incident.
The accident was shrouded in secrecy for much of the Cold War. The plane’s crash site was located and a U.S. forces team flew in, removed sensitive material and then destroyed the wreckage of the downed plane. The co-pilot said the bomb was detonated over the water. The U.S. air force said the bomb — while packed with 5,000 pounds of TNT, did not have its plutonium core that was needed for a nuclear detonation. Still, it has spawned conspiracy theories, speculation, official search missions and unofficial sleuthing.
The mysterious crash came back into the headlines in 2016 after a diver found an unusual metal object off the coast of British Columbia, not far from where the B-36 started its fall. The diver said he’d never seen anything like it before, even pondering whether it was alien. When he first came out of the water he told his buddies he’d just found a UFO. When the diver told an old-timer fisherman about it, he was told he might have found the lost nuke. When the diver Googled it, he was struck by how similar the interior of an old Mark IV nuclear bomb was to the object he found. The diver alerted Canadian authorities.
In November 2016, the Royal Canadian Navy deployed the HMCS Yellowknife, a maritime coastal defence vessel, to search the coastal waters south of Prince Rupert, B.C.
Here is the previously unreleased video footage of the Navy’s underwater exploration of the object, released exclusively to The Mob Reporter through an information request.
With the help of the diver, the crew used onboard sonar systems, a remotely operated underwater vehicle and a dive team. On Nov. 22, 2016, the Navy found the object of interest eight metres below the surface. The Navy says it was not an unexploded military munition and poses no threat to local residents. Presumably that means it is not part of the B-36, but the Navy isn’t entirely sure exactly what it is.
The official finding is the object is a steel piece of industrial equipment measuring about 5 1/2 metres across and one metre high. It appears to be a metal part of a larger machine assembly and was once painted yellow.
Suggestions on what it is could be are most welcome in the comments below.
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HMCS Yellowknife is a Kingston-class Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel (MCDV) first launched in 1997. MCDVs are multi-role minor war vessels with a primary mission of coastal surveillance and patrol, including general naval operations and exercises, search and rescue, law enforcement, resource protection and fisheries patrols.
The B-36 was the first genuine intercontinental bomber. It was a massive airplane, with the longest wingspan of any combat aircraft ever built, at 230 feet (70.1 metres), with a flying range of 10,000 miles (16,000 km) without refueling.
Underwater video and photos of HMCS Yellowknife: Canada’s Department of National Defence; Archival footage of B-36: U.S. Department of Defense; Bomb photos: United States government; Added music is Swamp Atmos by DL Sounds (
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Webster! Full Episode February 13, 1986
Copyright: BC Archives, Credit: Jack Webster and BCTV
Note: Segment 7 interrupted by tape change. Jack reports on police accused of covering up the jailhouse beating of Michael Jacobsen. Jack continues on the subject with Chief Constable Bob Stewart, Vancouver Police. Jack talks to Perrin Beatty, Solicitor General, about the Young Offenders Act, and Canadian law. Jack discusses job creation in British Columbia with Ted Schellenberg, Nanaimo-Alberni (PC) MP; and then talks to Jim Routledge, manager of Newcastle Island Pavilion Society, about Newcastle Island. Jack plays a clip of Jim Fulton, Skeena (NDP) MP, referring to Lyell Island and Webster’s coverage of the issue.
Descriptive Reference Number: AAAA7702
Call Number: V1988:25/1943_1944
Original Air Date: 1986-02-13