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Old Posted: Apr 5, 2012, 2:45 AM
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Originally Posted by jsbertram View Post
I suspect there were more people living on Prior, Union, Venables and Adanac streets who were relieved to know their homes and neighbourhoods WEREN'T going to be sacrificed to the pro-freeway elites as part of the 'urban renewal' schemes.
Indeed, my dad had told stories to me of when protested against the freeway. The freeway would have torn apart the Chinese community back in the day as Chinese-Canadians were concentrated in that area (unlike today).
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