Skana and the Hippie
Journal: Oxford University Press eBooks
Year: 2018

On september 21, 1967, Vancouver columnist Himie Koshevoy of the Province newspaper witnessed an unexpected Cold War encounter. Soviet minister of fisheries Alexander Ishkov had come to see the Vancouver Aquarium, and Murray Newman invited the reporter along. Ishkov had visited in 1956, when construction of the aquarium was still underway, and he was so impressed that he carried a copy of its plans back to Moscow. Eleven years later, he had returned for a grand tour, and Newman was happy to obli