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.

St. Michael’s Church, Mount Pleasant (1978), City of Vancouver Archives

B.C. Supreme Court issues injunction against “prostitution” in Vancouver’s West End.

Part of the BC Supreme Court injunction (A.G. B.C. v. Couillard (1984), 42 C.R. (3d) 273)

Learn more about these issues through the links included above, or by searching the City of Vancouver Archives and British Columbia Historical Newspapers.