The story of ex-soldiers who declared the vacant Hotel Vancouver home post-WWII

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Making Time for Radio Documentary Series

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Length: 0:28:17
Uploaded: 23 Feb, 2017

Recording Date: 31 Jan, 2017
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Logsheet: none
Language: English
Topical for: Timeless
Status: Complete, Ready to Air
Copyright: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

Program Title: Occupy Hotel Vancouver
Description: In the 1940s, Vancouver had a problem: not enough housing for everyone who wanted to call it home. Construction halted during the war years and when servicemen came back from overseas, many were left homeless. Occupy Hotel Vancouver tells the story of one man who led ex-soldiers into the large, luxurious and vacant Hotel Vancouver and declared it their home until the government could guarantee another place to live; an occupation that lasted two years.

Carrie Swiggum is an award-winning radio documentary producer and currently the News Director at CJMP Community Radio in Powell River. She has a masters degree in journalism from UBC.

Host(s): Carrie Swiggum
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Credits: Produced by Carrie Swiggum

Comments: Completed as part of CJSF's Making Time for Radio Grant with funding from the Community Radio Fund of Canada