Greenpeace

Greenpeace launched its first action

from False Creek on September 15, 1971

when activists set sail on board the

Phyllis Cormack for Amchitka, Alaska

to protest nuclear testing.

The crew: Dave Birmingham, Jim Bohlen, 

Bob Cummings, Bill Darnell, 

Richard Fineberg, Robert Hunter, 

Bob Keziere, Ben Metcalfe, Patrick Moore, 

Terry Simmons, Lyle Thurston.

Captain: John Cormack.

Greenpeace founders: Jim Bohlen, 

Paul Cote, Irving Stowe.