Chances are good that if you work in downtown Vancouver, or attend a performance at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, or take in a Lions game at BC Place, or settle down to read at the Vancouver Public Library, you’re being warmed by the folks at Central Heat Distribution. …
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On December 4, 1972 the minimum wage for adults in British Columbia was set at $2 an hour, the highest in Canada.
Economic doom was predicted, especially when the NDP government promised a further boost to $2.50 an hour by mid-1974. Even more alarming, the new bill applied for the first time to women as well as men.