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Black Strathcona - Jimi & Nora

From the early 1900s to the late 1960s, the East Side neighborhood of Strathcona was home to Vancouver’s first and only black community.

From the early 1900s to the late 1960s, the East Side neighborhood of Strathcona was home to Vancouver’s first and only black community. The ten video stories of the web and signage project, Black Strathcona, celebrate some of the people and places that made the community vibrant and unique. Below is one of them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5qdc_aMMJc

Visit blackstrathcona.com to watch all of the videos and to learn more of the history of this Vancouver community.