This Week in History: 1961, RCMP raid the Vancouver Public Library over a notorious novel

October 13th, 1961, fell on a Friday. And it was definitely unlucky for Vancouver fans of writer Henry Miller.
“RCMP RAIDS LIBRARY IN HUNT FOR NOVEL,” screamed a giant front-page headline in The Vancouver Sun.
“Royal Canadian Mounted Police swooped down on bookstores and the Vancouver Public Library Friday in a hunt for copies of author Henry Miller’s sex-in-Paris novel, Tropic of Cancer.
“They were armed with a little-used blanket warrant called a ‘writ of as