100 years of the Province's Empty Stocking Fund

Christmas 1918 was tough for a lot of Vancouverites. The First World War had ended Nov. 11, but its effects were still reverberating through the city.
Newspapers continued to carry photos of soldiers that had died in the conflict for weeks after the armistice was signed. The Spanish flu was wreaking havoc on the home front: the day the war ended, there were obituaries for both a 15-year-old girl and a prominent local businessman who had succumbed to the epidemic.
Vancouver was also suffering fro