Case Study 3

Vie's Steak House, 209 Union [Street] with Ellen Clark

Vancouver housing survey : notes on area bounded by Cordova, Main, Prior and Gore Streets

Report of Medical Health Officer and Building Inspector re: living conditions in Hogan's Alley.

The Thematic Guide for Case Study 3 gathers information providing the items' metadata for our research that seeks to document and commemorate histories of Black people's participation in the labour force in the Lower Mainland in the early to mid-twentieth century.

Thematic Guide Case Study 3

The Thematic Guide for Case Study 3 gathers information providing the items' metadata for our research that seeks to document and commemorate histories of Black people's participation in the labour force in the Lower Mainland in the early to mid-twentieth century.

The Social System of a Vancouver Nightclub: : an illustration of a method of analysis of an organization

This file is a thesis written by Lawrance Douglas in 1960. This thesis analysis the social system of the Malabar in a descriptive style. The author used participants observation methodology because the participants did not want to participate in interviews. However the author believes participants let him to observe them because he was Black.

The Carter's Family Tree

This item shows Winston Carter's genealogy built from information found in vital records and newspaper clippings.

Prize [boxing] fighters, taken for J. Allen, W. Townsend, Carter, Holliday, Hawk, Young

Item is a photograph showing boxers (L-R): William (Billy) Townsend, Leslie Carter, Harvey Holliday, Johnny Hawks, and Billy Young.

Opening Doors in Vancouver's East End : Strathcona

In 1979, two writers, Daphne Marlatt and Carole Itter, decided to gather and share 50 spoken stories from the Strathcona community. They interviewed a handful of Black People, such as Nora Hendrix, Rosa Pryor, Austin Phillips, and Dorothy Nealy. They published these stories in 1979 as a special edition of the Sound Heritage journal.

Kathleen De Lapene, Thelma Gibson and Mildred Franklin in Showboat

Jones Herbert and Frances wedding 1940s

Collector/curator’s description reads: “1940s, Vancouver. Heatley wedding. Left to right: unidentified; Herman Q Jones; Frances (nee Carter) Jones; Alice (Carter) Hackley; and Herbert Winston Carter. Herbert was born in either Mississippi or Oklahoma and came to Canada as part of the Black migration to Alberta. He worked for a time as porter and served in WWII. He passed away in 1952. Frances was born in Victoria. Her parents were also born in Victoria. She worked for a time as a waitress at Vie's chicken and steak house in Hogan's Alley. Frances died in 1957.”

Illustrated Notes Understanding Black History Labor in BC

This file includes illustrated notes by Maira C. Castro regarding Black Labor in BC. The illustrated notes include the sources of their information.

Illustrated Notes Narrative Carter's Family

This file includes illustrated notes by Maira C. Castro regarding the Carter Family and a narrative proposal to provide a big picture of this family in Vancouver.

Hogan’s Alley

This video documents the previously unrecorded history of Vancouver s Black community, specifically Hogan s Alley, between 1930 and the late 1960s. The tape examines the lives of three Black women. Thelma Gibson is an African-Caribbean dance teacher who recalls the era with nostalgia. Pearl Brown is a well known local jazz singer who speaks about working in the chicken houses flanking Hogan s Alley. Leah Curtis is a lesbian in her mid-forties, whose history as an abused child is interconnected with her experience as a child worker in the gambling houses of Papa White. The videotape investigates the identities of these women, as well as the identities of a disappeared community.

Herbert Winston Carter Registration of Marriage

This file is Herbert Winston Carter's marriage registration, shedding light on his age and occupation at the time of this event.

Herbert Winston Carter Registration of Death

This file is Herbert Winston Carter's death registration, shedding light on his age, occupation, and residency, as well as the name of one of his daughters and her residency.

Herbert Winston Carter Registration of Birth

This file is Herbert Winston Carter's birth certificate, shedding light on his date of birth, as well as his father's and mother's names, residency, and occupations.

Frances Beatrice Jones Registration of Death

This file is the death registration of Frances Beatrice Jones, shedding light on her age, occupation, and residency, as well as the names of her parents and one of her sisters.