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ANZA Club
From Mount Pleasant Gospel Hall to the ANZA Club, this 1914 community site continues to thrive in the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood. Join us for the plaque presentation on February 20th, 2025.
c̓əsnaʔəm
"c̓əsnaʔəm, one of our Musqueam villages, existed on the stal̕əw̓ (now called the Fraser River) long before Vancouver was founded... Today, c̓əsnaʔəm has been paved over and built upon, yet it remains part of our territory, culture, and…
sən̓aʔqʷ
"The area now known as Burrard Inlet is host to numerous Musqueam villages, camps, and transformer sites. It was connected by water ways, trails, histories, and genealogies to other villages throughout our territory. "
sɬχil̕əx
"Our territory is marked by sites where powerful beings, χe:l̕s, the transformers, visited on their travels. They transformed people into animals or aspects of the landscape. sɬχil̕əx (standing) is an import transformation site where χe:l̕s…
χʷay̓χʷəy̓
χʷay̓χʷəy̓ was once a large Musqueam village, with several longhouses, and home to hundreds of our ancestors at a time. χʷay̓χʷəy̓ is also an important spiritual site to our people. It’s from this village our ancestors received the…
spapəy̓əq
"The area now known as Stanley Park is host to numerous important villages, transformer, and resource sites. spapəy̓əq (bent at the end) was home to Musqueam families into the early 1900s. Rose Yelton (nee Cole), Daughter of Matilda Cole (nee…
Militant Mothers of Raymur Pedestrian Bridge
Railroad tracks cutting through the Strathcona neighbourhood just east of Raymur Avenue separates Admiral Seymour School from the homes of the majority of its students. The Militant Mothers of Raymur Overpass is its legacy.
Hogan’s Alley
The first Black immigrants arrived in British Columbia from California in 1858. They settled in Victoria and Salt Spring Island, but began migrating to Vancouver in the early 1900s, some making their homes in Strathcona (Old East End).
Seraphim “Joe” Fortes
A young black sailor of Caribbean origins, Seraphim “Joe” Fortes arrived in
Vancouver, then known as Granville, in September of 1885. He discovered his
beloved English Bay Beach by chance c. 1887, while rowing supplies to a…
Douglas Park
Carved out of the 160 acre parcel preempted by William Mackie in 1874, Douglas Park, was laid out in 1926 by the former Municipality of Point Grey. It has been the site of a lake and beaver dam, early logging camps, pasture for oxen used to haul…
Kitsilano (Kits) Neighbourhood House
Kits House at 7th and Vine, which operates out of the former St. George's Creek Orthodox Church, is the replacement for Vancouver's first neighbourhood house established at 7th and Pine in 1938.
Original Site of the Arts Club Theatre
This site has been central to creativity in Vancouver since 1958, when a group of local artists transformed a gospel hall into a private club.
The Penthouse Cabaret
Born in an era of bottle clubs and bootlegging, the Penthouse Nightclub began as an after-hours for visiting entertainers and Vancouver socialites before transforming into a supper club in the 1950s, then a burlesque theatre in the 1960s and 70s.
Fountain Chapel
The church at 823 Jackson has been home to several congregations since its construction in 1910, but is best known as Fountain Chapel, the American Methodist Episcopal church and centre of spiritual community for Vancouver's Black communities.
Livestock Building – Hastings Park
Over 3,000 Japanese Canadian women, children and tuberculosis patients were unjustly detained here under traumatic and deplorable conditions between March 1942 - March 1943.