[2] Built in 1973, the Hyatt Regency Vancouver is a 35 floor tower standing at 359 feet or 109 metres.

At the event crowds surrounded the hotel where Prime Minister Jean Chrétien was speaking.

Vancouver Police Department waded into the crowd of demonstrators and, according to critics, "beat them with wooden nightsticks".

[5] The Vancouver Police Department investigated the matter for over a year and eventually issued a report concluding that the victims’ complaints of excessive force were unsubstantiated.

In 2003, the staff of the Hyatt Regency Vancouver property created the world's largest Gingerbread Man.