Jimi Hendrix’s Connection to Hogan's Alley—Vancouver's Lost Black Neighborhood
From the early 1900s through the 1960s , Hogan ’s Alley — the unofficial name of Park Lane , an alley that ran between Union and Prior Streets in Vancouver ’s Strathcona neighborhood — was a multicultural area thathostedan enclave of Black Canadians , mostly immigrants and their posterity , who had resettle from American states to find work , broadly speaking on the Great Northern Railway system . As a upshot of rampant racial discrimination and living accommodations discrimination within the city , many of Vancouver ’s bleak residents also migrated there , shew numerous business include Pullman Porters ’ Club , famed eateryVie ’s Chicken and Steak House , and the African Methodist Episcopal Fountain Chapel , the urban center ’s only Black church service at the time , which was partly spearheaded by Zenora Rose Hendrix — a column of the community and grandmother to legendary rockerJimi Hendrix ....