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There& #39;s a common misconception that Vancouver doesn& #39;t have a Black community or history. That& #39;s just not true.
Hogan& #39;s Alley was a vibrant Black neighbourhood razed by the City in the & #39;50s to make space for a freeway.
The freeway was never built. Instead, we got the viaducts.
Hogan& #39;s Alley was a vibrant Black neighbourhood razed by the City in the & #39;50s to make space for a freeway.
The freeway was never built. Instead, we got the viaducts.
Follow @hogans_alley Society for more of this history and to support the future-building work they do. Their work memorializes Hogan& #39;s Alley and, in their words, aims to "advanc[e] the social, political, economic & cultural well-being of people of African Descent in Vancouver."
There& #39;s also a great little film about it here, "Return to Hogan& #39;s Alley": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-8lgpvj0Hg,">https://www.youtube.com/watch... featuring @WaydeCompton, among others.
"It was a good area then. It would have been a good area now if it hadn& #39;t uprooted the community." -Ronald Crump
There& #39;s also a great book called "Opening Doors" by Daphne Marlatt & Carole Itter. In 1977 they walked thru Strathcona knocking on doors & recording oral histories w anyone who was game. There& #39;s some gems from Hogan& #39;s Alley, incl stories from Nora Hendrix http://www.harbourpublishing.com/title/OpeningDoors">https://www.harbourpublishing.com/title/Ope...
I love to read Opening Doors & think about all this vibrancy: these stories, these lives, the music, as I walk through these spaces today.
