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This is Strathcona


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.

Posted on: September 14th, 2011 by Vancouver125
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‘River of Crows’ - The McLean Drive Mural


Created as part of the Vancouver 125 celebrations, River of Crows is a new 9000+ square foot mural on both the upper and lower segments of a cement retaining wall two blocks long on McLean Drive (from Parker to William Streets) in the Commercial Drive neighbourhood of East Vancouver. The wall is along the City of Vancouver’s Mosaic bikeway cycling route and borders Britannia High School’s Oval Field.

Walkers, cyclists and drivers will experience the flight of migrating crows, from night to day across the wall. Stencils and printed images designed through community workshops make up the majority of the imagery. The wall’s lower section reflects plant, seed and insect life.
The theme chosen for the mural is “flight”, reflecting the daily migration of crows across this part of the city.

This mural was created with artistic coordination provided by Richard Tetrault and images were designed through a community process organized with the assistance of Britannia Community Centre, and in collaboration with artists, community members and Britannia School students.

With support from the City of Vancouver’s Celebrate Vancouver 125 Murals and Great Beginnings programs and the participation of the Government of Canada.

Learn more

View the detailed description of ‘River of Crows’ (click on image): .

A community celebration will be held September 11, 2011 from 3pm to 6pm at 1100 McLean Drive. View the invitation (click on image):
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View more images on Flickr and watch a video about the McLean Drive mural “River of Crows”:

W2TV: “Big Paint” @ McLean Drive Mural from Sid Tan on Vimeo.

Posted on: September 9th, 2011 by Vancouver125
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