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A Look into Black History: Hogan’s Alley in Downtown Vancouver

By: Hannah Fraser, SFU Student Last semester I took ENGL 211, a truly eye-opening class of gripping literature and lectures with a focus on enslavement in America. During one lecture, my professor briefly mentioned the history behind Hogan’s Alley in Downtown Vancouver. Immediately drawn to its history, I soon found through my own research that I passed by the site of Hogan’s Alley countless times in the past but had no idea such a valued cultural hub for Black people once existed there.  Black immigrants from California settled in BC during the mid-1800s, establishing in and around Strathcona by the…

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