Date: September 25, 11-6pm
Location: MacLean Park, Strathcona
Website: www.thisisstrathcona.ca
Celebrate the history of Vancouver’s first neighbourhood with a community fair and scavenger hunt organized by the Strathcona Residents Association / Strathcona Community Centre Association. Strathcona has humble origins as the site for Hastings Mill workers and their family homes; today, it boasts some of the city’s oldest built heritage. Explore the stories and cultural diversity of an area that was home to so many of Vancouver’s immigrant pioneers that it was once dubbed “the League of Nations”. Complimentary maps will be provided for a family-friendly heritage scavenger hunt, while community tents and live entertainment in MacLean Park will share the neighbourhood’s legacy and future of multiculturalism, creativity and diversity.
Heritage Scavenger Hunt — Starts at 11:00 in MacLean Park
Explore our historic neighbourhood with an interactive DIY heritage tour! We supply the map and clues, you supply the curiosity.Along the route you’ll be competing for prizes and other goodies!
Live Entertainment — 1:00 - 6:00pm in MacLean Park
As eclectic as the neighbourhood itself! Our live stage features everything from hip hop to prohibition-era reefer jazz, bluegrass to funk, taiko drumming, lion dancing and more!
Multicultural Homecoming— 12:00 - 6:00pm in MacLean Park
Wander from booth to booth and explore the heritage and histories of the diverse range of Vancouverites who’ve called Strathcona their neighbourhood over the last 125 years. As a working class immigrant neighbourhood from it’s very inception, Strathcona has been home to First Nations and Chinese, black and white, queer and straight, Italian, Jewish, Japanese, Scandinavian, Russian, Ukrainian, Portuguese, Yugoslav, Newfoundlanders, French Canadians and many more. That wide ranging ethnic diversity of the neighbourhood earned local Strathcona Elementary School the nickname “The League of Nations” during the early part of the last century.
Plus a Kid Zone with pony-rides, magic, face-painting and lots more for kids of all ages, prizes, food and more!
With support from the City of Vancouver’s 125th Anniversary Grants Program and the participation of the Government of Canada.
