BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Tonight: special event at Museum of Vancouver
Hogan's Alley, Black Vancouver & Public Memory
presented by Wayde Compton
Tonight: special event at Museum of Vancouver
Hogan's Alley, Black Vancouver & Public Memory
presented by Wayde Compton
Black people have been in Vancouver since its earliest days, but the closest thing they had to a centralized black neighbourhood was in what is now called Strathcona in the early to mid-twentieth centrury. Professor Compton will discuss details of the community, its prominent individuals, social conditions, collective actions, and important institutions, with an eye to the recent memorialization to link the community, and specifically to Hogan's Alley, to the present.
7:30 pm - Free Admission
Hosted by the Vancouver Historical Society
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From my personal collection, I found this neat little profile of Frank Fernandez, a black working man in Vancouver. It was wtitten up in the March 1945 issue of the Wallace Shipbuilder, a monthly in-house magazine for the Burrard Shipyards in World War Two:
*Note: Frank Fernandez passed away in Vancouver in 1964 at age 82.
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