Story Index: 1972 - 1990

The Roller Coaster Years

 In the 1970's and 1980's, BC began to reap the benefits of huge investments made in the 1960's. Yet, during this time, the company that had made so many of these investments went through some

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The Silver Thaw Of '72

The year 1972 blew in with one of the most devastating acts of nature Hydro had ever faced in the Lower Mainland. To the old-timers who had experienced the great storm of 1935, there were a lot of

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New Politics, Old Dream

In 1972, Dave Barrett's New Democratic Party came to power, replacing W. A. C. Bennett's Social Credit government. Although ideologically far apart from its predecessor, the new government shared with

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