[BCMA] Event Listing: Walking Tour – Strathcona North of Hastings

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+ Walking Tour – Strathcona North of Hastings
Saturday, September 29; 10 am to 12 noon
Tourguide: James Johnstone
$10 Heritage Vancouver Members; $15 Non-members
The tour will start at 611 Alexander Street

Join local historian James Johnstone for an exploration of the unique neighbourhood of
Strathcona North. In what was the first European settlement on the south side of Burrard
Inlet, a small village grew up around the Hastings Sawmill, Vancouver’s first industry.
Strathcona North, Vancouver's first neighbourhood, is on Heritage Vancouver's Top Ten
Endangered List for 2012 and James will be paying special attention to threatened
buildings during the tour.

The sawmill manager, R. H. Alexander and Vancouver’s Bell-Irving family had their first
stately homes on the 300 block of Alexander Street. Thirty years later the 500 and 600
blocks of Alexander was Vancouver’s Red Light District where there are still some
original bordellos standing.

Though the massive forced dislocation of Vancouver’s Nikkei (Japanese) community in
1942 changed the neighbourhood forever, there are still many physical reminders of the
time when Powell Street was a vibrant, flourishing neighbourhood called “Little Tokyo.”

Oppenheimer Park, the site of the annual Powell Street Festival, was once known as
Vancouver’s Hyde Park. It was the scene of many labour demonstrations, and
communists were known to meet and plot at the World Hotel at Powell and Dunlevy.
Though many of the physical reminders are now gone, the oldest part of Strathcona and
Vancouver, is very rich in history.

Tickets:

Credit card:
Pay online via Eventbrite at hvs-strathcona.eventbrite.ca

Or pay by cheque: Made out to Heritage Vancouver Society and mailed to 1020
Denman St, PO Box 47036 Denman Place, Vancouver, BC, V6G 3E1. Please let us know
if you've mailed a cheque, at events at heritagevancouver.org so we can reserve your spot.

AIBC: 2.0 Non-Core LUs Available
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Anna Wilkinson

Program Assistant
Heritage Vancouver
events at heritagevancouver.org

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