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A Year in Five Minutes: Vancouver 1971 Pender Street in Chinatown in 1972, which was now part of a designated historic area. Item # CVA 780-447. Photo courtesy of Vancouver Archives. In 1971, Greenpeace was making waves, there was a riot in Gastown and the CBC started filming a very popular series on the Sunshine Coast. By Chuck Davis, 1971 census figures for Metropolitan Vancouver The 1971 census showed the metropolitan Vancouver population had topped the million mark for the first time. One remarkable finding of that census was that Delta’s population had more than tripled in 10 ye...

BugBitten Good Riddance, 2020! Roll up your sleeves for 2021! Krisztian Magori proclaims "Good Riddance" to 2020 as he tries to put into perspective all that happened, how Bugbitten weathered it all, and a look towards the work ahead in 2021! "Coronavirus fireworks" by Robert Matson from https://www.rollcall.com/2020/07/01/capitol-ink-coronavirus-fireworks/ with the artist's permission. As a disease ecologist, this has been a very unusual year. Every year, I teach my students in my Disease Ecology capstone class about infectious diseases, the basic reproduction number and pandemics. However,...