John Mackie
John Mackie es escritor del periódico Vancouver Sun en Vancouver, Columbia Británica, Canadá. Se especializa en temas culturales y patrimoniales. Vive cerca de Japantown y conduce su bicicleta por el vecindario todos los días de camino al trabajo.
Actualizado en febrero de 20104
Historias de Este Autor
Japantown: Vancouver’s Lost Neighbourhood - Part 2
21 de febrero de 2014 • John Mackie
Read part 1 >> Few people realize it, but the city of Vancouver began in Japantown, not Gastown. The Hastings Mill was located on the waterfront at the foot of Dunlevy in 1865. Some of the workers lived in float houses, others built small shacks on Hastings Road, the original name of today’s Alexander Street. Gastown grew up around Gassy Jack Deighton’s saloon, which popped up in the late 1860s at today’s Carrall and Water. In the 1880s, Alexander Street was a …
Japantown: Vancouver’s Lost Neighbourhood - Part 1
20 de febrero de 2014 • John Mackie
U. Morimoto & Co. dry goods rented a storefront at 328 Powell St. for only two years, in 1920 and 1921. But nine decades later, the company name is still written in the tile of the storefront, one of the last remnants of Vancouver’s historic Japantown. The 8,000 to 10,000 Japanese-Canadians who lived in Japantown were moved to internment camps in the B.C. interior in 1942, and their properties were sold off a year later. Japanese-Canadians weren’t allowed to return …
