Vancouver Yippies invaded the U. S. border town of Blaine, Washington, on May 9, 1970, to protest Richard Nixon's invasion of Cambodia and the shooting of students at Kent State.

In Tucson, Yippies operated a free store ; in Vancouver, Yippies established the People's Defense Fund to provide legal help for the often-harassed hippie community ; in Milwaukee, Yippies helped launch the city's first food co-op.

The Open Road, an internationally known journal of the anti-authoritarian left, was founded by a core of Vancouver Yippies.

Vancouver Yippie Bob Sarti's play " Yippies in Love " premiered in June 2011.

( Yippies ) Other members helped form the Vancouver Liberation Front in 1970.

Its leading career scorers were Ken Gribbons, who played most of his career in the IHL ; Bob McCammon, a lifelong IHLer who went on to be a National Hockey League coach with the Philadelphia Flyers and the Vancouver Canucks ; Bill LeCaine and Larry Gould, who played a handful of NHL games with the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Vancouver Canucks, respectively.

Ken Clement ( Vision Vancouver )

In 1951, a group led by Ken Stauffer and Tiny Radar were inspired by Vancouver Sun columnist Andy Lytle's article to start a football team in Vancouver ( an early team known as the Vancouver Grizzlies had played one season in the Western Interprovincial Football Union in 1941 ).

The Belke brothers joined Chinn and Card in Vancouver in 1992 and began a new incarnation of the group with bassist Ken Fleming ( formerly of the Winnipeg-based skate punk band The Unwanted ).

Early in his career, he helped define the Vancouver School and he has published essays on the work of his colleagues and fellow Vancouverites Rodney Graham, Ken Lum and Ian Wallace.

Ken Johnston ( Born 1950 in Vancouver ) is a politician in British Columbia, Canada.

The group was formed in Vancouver under the original name Indecision by singers Trevor Guthrie, David Bowman, Adam Stillman and keyboard player Ken Lewko, who were studying music together at Capilano College.

St. Louis also won the Lester B. Pearson Award for league's most outstanding player as voted by the NHL Players ' Association, and tied the Vancouver Canucks ' Marek Malik for the NHL Plus / Minus Award.

Vancouver became home to a professional ice hockey team for the first time in 1911 when Patrick brothers Frank and Lester established the Vancouver Millionaires, one of three teams in the new Pacific Coast Hockey Association.

Fourteen other airports follow, including Halifax, Lester B. Pearson in Toronto, Montréal-Dorval, and Vancouver.

* 7 December — upon completion of artificial ice rinks in Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia, the new professional Pacific Coast Hockey Association ( PCHA ) league is created by former NHA players Frank and Lester Patrick.

The league was formally organized on December 7, 1911 to be run by Frank and Lester, who would also play and manage the Vancouver and Victoria teams.

A parliamentary committee hearing was convened, and Prime Minister Lester Pearson appointed Vancouver Sun publisher Stuart Keate as a special investigator.

In 1911, the Patrick brothers Frank and Lester, inaugurated their own professional ice hockey league on the west coast, the Pacific Coast Hockey Association, giving birth to three teams, one of which was the Vancouver Millionaires.

Frith has also served on the governing bodies of the Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific and the Vancouver Symphony.

As a head coach in several leagues, Crozier is a three-time Calder Cup champion with the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League, a two-time Lester Patrick Cup championship with the Vancouver Canucks of the Western Hockey League, and a Memorial Cup champion with the Kitchener Rangers of the Ontario Hockey League.

Crozier immediately won two Lester Patrick Cups as WHL champion in his only two seasons with Vancouver.

The PCHL was founded as an amateur loop, partly because the National Hockey League recognized Pacific Coast Hockey Association ( PCHA ) founder Lester Patrick as the territorial rights holder for professional hockey in Vancouver, Portland and Seattle.

Vancouver Millionaires Manager Lester Patrick gave permission to Toronto to use Gerard to replace their injured player.

On the debit side, a strong bid from Vancouver was rejected, much to the anger of many Canadians and the protest of their Prime Minister Lester Pearson.

The first five seasons of The X-Files were filmed and produced in Vancouver, British Columbia, but they eventually moved down to the United States when David Duchovny had been unhappy with his geographical separation from his wife Téa Leoni, although his discontent was popularly attributed to frustration with climatic conditions in Vancouver.

Christensen was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada the son of Alie Nelson, a speechwriter for the heads of large companies, and David Christensen, a computer programmer and communications executive.

* Vancouver, British Columbia ( Maritime Museum ) — 100 ft ( 30. 5 m ), Kwakwaka ' wakw, carved by Mungo Martin with Henry Hunt and David Martin

In the election for Vancouver City Council held in November 2005, only one COPE councillor ( David Cadman ) was elected.

Vancouver: Douglas, David and Charles.

The TISH Poetry movement in Vancouver brought about poetic innovation from bpNichol, Jamie Reid, George Bowering, Fred Wah, Frank Davey, Daphne Marlatt, David Cull, and Lionel Kearns.

*" The City in her Eyes " by David Cull, Vancouver, Vancouver Community Press, 1972.

Jean Baird, David McFadden and George Stanley, Vancouver / Toronto, ( printed at ) Coach House Books, 2005.

The most celebrated British explorers include James Cook, Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake, Henry Hudson, George Vancouver, Sir John Franklin, David Livingstone, Captain John Smith, Robert Falcon Scott, Lawrence Oates and Ernest Shackleton.

David Oppenheimer ( January 1, 1834 – December 31, 1897 ) was a successful entrepreneur, the second mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, and a National Historic Person of Canada.

David and Isaac Oppenheimer moved to Granville ( now Vancouver ) in 1885.

In 1887 Oppenheimer Brothers opened the first wholesale grocery business in the fledgling city, which still exists as The Oppenheimer Group After the Great Vancouver Fire, David helped found the Vancouver Board of Trade and was its first Chairman from 1887 to 1888.

In 1888 David Oppenheimer was acclaimed the second Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, serving until 1891.

David also attracted investment from Europe and industries such as the B. C. Sugar Refinery and the Vancouver City Foundry.

As a philanthropist, David Oppenheimer donated land to the city for parks and helped found charities such as the Alexandra Orphanage and the Vancouver branch of the YMCA.

Even the Vancouver Daily News-Advertiser ( today's Vancouver Sun ), which had been critical of his political career, praised David Oppenheimer as " the best friend Vancouver ever had.

On July 12, 2008, Vancouver's Mayor Sam Sullivan proclaimed " David Oppenheimer Day " in the city of Vancouver, to honor this innovative founding father who built much of the city's infrastructure.

* Oppenheimer Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, was created and named after David Oppenheimer.

* David Oppenheimer Elementary School in Vancouver, British Columbia, was also named after him.