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Item Details
Title: Intermedia protest bus
Pictured: Werner Aellen
Pictured: Gary Lee-Nova
Artist: Michael de Courcy
Date: November 30, 1969
Format: Photograph [fibre based gelatin silver print]
Location: The Michael de Courcy Archive
Size: 12.70 × 10.20 cm
More Information: An Intermedia sponsored protest in the form of a bus trip around the city, distributing information about a freeway development that would accompany the newly proposed Georgia Viaduct, which would adversely effect many neighborhoods in Vancouver. The freeway plan was successfully halted in 1970 due to public outcry. The bus stop departed from the White Spot parking lot on Burrard Street. L-R: Werner Aellen, Gary Lee-Nova Collection of the artist.
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