The American Page
Americans have had a major influence on the history of Metropolitan Vancouver. Simon Fraser Simon Fraser, after whom the Fraser
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The Scottish Page
Scottish influence in metropolitan Vancouver was important from the very beginning of our post-native history…
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Black Strathcona
The first black immigrants arrived in British Columbia from California in 1858. They settled in Victoria and on Salt Spring Island, but as the center of economic power shifted, some came to Vancouver in the early 1900s.
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Vancouver’s Black History and Hogan’s Alley
Hogan’s Alley was the unofficial name for a T-shaped intersection at the southwestern edge of Strathcona that formed the nucleus of Vancouver’s first concentrated Black community. Vancouver’s first archivist, J.S. Matthews (see Major Matthews’ House), noted that the name “Hogan’s Alley” was in use by 1914.
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Mandrake the Magician
A lot of people know Mandrake the Magician as a comic book protagonist, but the real Mandrake grew up in
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