Black History - The History of Metropolitan Vancouver

Fountain Chapel Picnic, 1935 [Photo credit: Gibson Family]

16 February 2018 Vancouver History

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.

832 Main Street in Hogan's Alley, 1969. [CVA-203-18]

Black History People Archive

16 February 2018 Vancouver History

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.