blacks in vancouver – The History of Metropolitan Vancouver

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

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.