Vancouver Centennial Plaque #82 – The Old Post Office

Address:           Sinclair Centre, 757 W Hastings Street

Status:             Found, but gone

Photo credit: The Pacific Tribune (18 Feb 1987)

“THE OLD POST OFFICE

Vancouver's Main Post Office (from 1910 to 1958), the Hotel Georgia and the Art Gallery were taken over on May 11, 1938 by some 1200 unemployed men protesting lack of relief payments. They occupied the Post Office until June 20 when the use of tear gas by the RCMP instigated the infamous Post Office Riot.”

Credit: Vancouver Centennial Commission, Historic Plaque Program – list and documentation plaques 50-100 (June 18, 1986). Courtesy of Vancouver Archives

Photo credit: Vancouver Archives (AM1576-S6-12-F47- 2011-010.1695)