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Mayor McGeer

Bound volume includes includes photographs of Mayor McGeer's portrait, group portrait of the 1935 City Council, Council and staff at the temporary City Hall site (interior view), and McGeer turning the first sod at the new City Hall site as well as photographs showing McGeer reading the riot act at Victory Square, April 23, 1935, to disperse demonstrators involved in the sit down strike of 1935 and other views of demonstrators, and photographs of the May Day parade and events downtown at the Cambie Street Grounds and Stanley Park, including an effigy of McGeer at Victory Square.

[Motorcyclists entertain spectators before the Diamond Jubilee Parade]

Item is a photograph showing Hastings Street looking west towards the Marine Building. Text material with the photograph reads: "Vancouver Citizens' Diamond Jubilee Committee Press Release
Cut lines - Looking west on Hastings Street towards the Marine Building behind which stands a tiny shack which was the city's first building erected in 1852. The lads on motorcycles are amusing the waiting spectators who are are [sic] awaiting the arrival of the great Diamond jubilee parade on July 1, 1946, which inaugurated the city's two weeks' birthday celebrations."

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