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First Sikh Temple
The first Sikh Gurdwara in Canada as built on W. 2nd Ave in 1908. Operated by the Khalsa Diwan Society until 1969, it was the center for spiritual, political, social, and economic life until the new Ross Street Temple was completed in 1970.
Nellie Yip Quong House
Nellie Yip Quong was a bold and outspoken advocate for the Chinese-Canadian community, serving as a bridge between Euro-Canadian and Chinese Canadian societies.
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.
ANZA Club
From Mount Pleasant Gospel Hall to the ANZA Club, this 1914 community site continues to thrive in the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood.
Electric Avenue
Electric Avenue (4th Ave) was part of the Grandview Neighbourhood's early street names, when streetcars ran down Park Drive (today's Commercial Drive). The entire area of McSpadden Park (Victoria to Commercial) is Block 146.
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…
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.
Punjabi Market
Since 1970, Main Street around 49th Avenue has been known as Punjabi Market, the first in Western Canada. Every year tens of thousands of people congregate here to celebrate the annual Vaisakhi parade in April.
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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.
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.
Davie Street Village
The blocks of Davie Street between Burrard and Jervis became the heart of Vancouver's gay community in the 1970s. Today the neighbourhood is a vibrant mix of people, businesses and West End history.
Choklit Park
Charles Flavelle of Purdys Chocolates created Choklit Park in 1970 on the unused Spruce Street right-of-way at 7th Avenue, using a crew of six hired on an “Opportunities for Youth” grant.