1984
1985
1987
1991
1992
1984
WISH begins as a drop-in centre for street-based sex workers in the basement of St. Michael’s Anglican Church in Mount Pleasant.
B.C. Supreme Court issues injunction against “prostitution” in Vancouver’s West End.
Learn more about these issues through the links included above, or by searching the City of Vancouver Archives and British Columbia Historical Newspapers.
1985
Bill C-49 etc.
“Shame-the-Johns” group moves focus from West End to Mount Pleasant.
1987
WISH moves into space donated by First United Church, in the heart of the Downtown Eastside.
1991
WISH registers as a non-profit society in BC.
1992
First Women’s Memorial March held, honoring the lives of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and Two-Spirit people.