Modern Day
Following the mugging of an 81-year-old parishioner in August 2007, cathedral staff told the media they were "under siege" by panhandlers who frequent the building. The panhandlers were involved in at least one incident daily and the Vancouver Police Department had to be called in weekly.
On March 23, 2008, First Nations protesters disrupted an Easter Sunday Mass at the cathedral by demonstrating on the steps outside. They ordered the Church to "get off native land" and demanded that they disclose the burial locations of children who died in residential schools. A similar protest occurred on October 30, 2011, when a splinter group from the Occupy Vancouver movement marched to the cathedral from the Vancouver Art Gallery. They attempted to enter the cathedral and occupy it but were thwarted by Vancouver police officers and Knights of Columbus.
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