Undoubtedly, Greenpeace put Canada on the map environmentally, with the Europeans and Americans soon following with their own branches. By 1979, however, the Vancouver office was broke, and after bitter internal debate, Canada's Greenpeace went international, to be headquartered in Amsterdam.

In Alberta last month, a group of protesters chained themselves to a 300-tonne coking oven being transported from Edmonton to Fort McMurray. But the protest didn't get covered in the East. Last fall, B.C. members blocked a train full of western red cedar headed to the U.S.- zero coverage here. But just wait for June, when a Russian ship carrying plutonium reaches the St. Lawrence River. Greenpeace will be hard to ignore.

NON-POTABLE WATER?: Pollution Probe's first campaign was to clean up the Don River, and spawned this newspaper ad from 1969 that asked the question: "How would you like a glass of Don River water?"; CP FILE PHOTO / THE LITTLE BOAT THAT ALMOST. . .: Although they didn't quite make it, Greenpeace members sailed from Vancouver aboard this fishing boat in October, 1971, to protest nuclear testing on Amchitka Island off the coast of Alaska.