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How the Hippies shaped Vancouver
aggregated from: Metroblogging Vancouver
Via David Drucker [lm]:I knew Vancouver had it's own fling with '60s hippiness, and clearly we're one of the most left-coast of the lefty cities on the continent even today, but I was completely ignorant of how much the '60s and in fact a great influx of hippies had on the development of the city. From the fact that we don't have a big freeway slashing its way through the heart of the city, to the formation of Greenpeace and even Vancouver's current political believes all can be traced back to the Summer(s) of Love.David Drucker found the video above on YouTube from Evening Magazine, a Seattl...
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