pasttensevancouver:

Mother’s Day, Stanley Park, Sunday 12 May 1935

From the Vancouver Sun:

Demonstration Demands Abolition of Relief Camps.

Protesting against the relief camp system, a Mother’s Day Parade from Cambie Street grounds to Stanley Park and a demonstration on the Park featured Mother’s Day here Sunday. Three hundred women and 1400 men led by the C.C.F. band, started out from the grounds shortly after noon. four women pushing baby carriages before them marked the first line of the parade, which included single girls on relief, and Chinese unemployed. … Before the Malkin Memorial Shell in Stanley Park the women marched into the outline of a huge heart. This was solidly filled with the men, groups of whom bore huge letters to form the words “Mothers Abolish the Relief Camps.”

Source: Stanley Park History