‘We’ll eat worms before we eat eight-cent chocolate bars’: The great candy bar protest of 1947

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Over time, longtime Herald researcher/librarian Norma Marr ready a function known as The H Information, wherein she regarded again at quite a lot of Calgary information occasions. Listed here are a few of her installments from 1999, together with a have a look at the April 1947 bar protest. It unfold to cities from BC to the Maritimes, together with Ottawa, the place kids marched on Parliament Hill. One notorious signal from that protest mentioned, “We’ll eat worms earlier than we eat eight-cent chocolate bars.”