Chief of Police, "W.W. Foster"
Item
Descriptive Metadata
- Identifier
- CVA A01526 WWFoster 1935
- Title
- Chief of Police, "W.W. Foster"
- Description
- Photograph of Vancouver Chief of Police W.W. Foster.
- Format
- JPG, 1
- Type
- Original: 1 photograph: b&w nitrate negative; 9 x 12 cm
- Creator
- Stuart Thomson (1881-1960)
- Is Part Of
- Stuart Thomson fonds
- Date
- 1935 July 1
Research, Contributions, Curation
- Sub-theme
- Policing
- Subject
- Mounted police
- Places, Locations and Nations
- Vancouver, Canada. Unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
- Note
- Chief Constable William Wasbrough Foster was hired in 1935 during Mayor McGreer's term. Foster had headed a special police force that broke the longshoreman strike in 1923. Mayor McGreer found a partner in his campaigns against Communists and vice including crackdowns on gambling, disorderly houses, surveillance of sex workers, and removing White waitresses from Chinatown restaurants and cafes. In 1937, Foster was empowered by the Mayor and City Council to invoke the 1923 Women and Girl's Protection Act giving him the sole discretion to take legal action to protect the "morals" of "Indian" and white female employees.
Source
- Access Rights
- Public domain
Contributed Metadata
- Getty: Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)
- horseback riding
- Library of Congress Linked Data Service
- Owl
Other metadata
- Case Study
-
Case Study 1
- Resource class
- Image
Interpretive Analysis
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