Strathcona Community
溫哥華士達孔拿(Chinese)

Strathcona is one of this city's earliest neighbourhoods. It grew out of the collection of shacks and small buildings that surrounded the Hastings Mill site. A street car service ran along East Georgia Street from Main Street to Victoria Drive and back again on a 20 minute service.

Strathcona has one of the largest concentrations of 19th and early 20th century buildings in Vancouver. The area was identified as a character area in the 1986 City of Vancouver Heritage Inventory because of its unique mix of building styles.

Known as the`East End' - the original East End School which gave the area its name was at the corner of Powell and Jackson - well into the 1950s, Vancouver's first neighbourhood grew up around the Hastings Mill and expanded southward from Burrard Inlet. It has always been a diverse neighbourhood where a succession of immigrants including the British, Irish, Russian, Croatian, Greeks, and Scandinavians, Japanese and Chinese have lived before moving on to other parts of the city.

In the 1950s, City planners earmarked the neighbourhood (now calling it Strathcona because of the 1897elementary school at Jackson and Keefer) for a massive redevelopment scheme of public housing.

集合：士達孔拿社區中心(Strathcona Community Centre)門口(601 Keefer Street)

溫哥華士達孔拿(Strathcona)的社區歷史文化

中國城(China Town) 有許多建築物，因有了歷史，且設計精美、雕飾有藝術性，而被列為保護文物，只准維修，不可拆卸，因此，走在唐人街上，會覺得這個城市很「後現代」，新舊建築物列隊向你招手。在1972年二月，政府資助給 Strathcona 社區的整治輔助金，藉以美化並維護社區環境，促成了溫哥華中文圖書館服務會的成立。

士達孔拿區是溫哥華最古老及以華裔為主的社區之一。主流社會人士不斷遷入外，更主要的是華裔的不斷遷出 ，從而改變了該社區的人口結構。區內社工指出，士達孔拿區內約三成為西人，另外亦有不少拉美裔及中國新移民，區內的族裔結構較前複雜。不過社區關係十分緊密，而區內的公園成為鄰居交流的地方。

我們將藉由該社區消失的電車軌道、歷史背景、傳奇人物、古蹟建築、公共藝術、人口結構、機構組織、或文 化節慶，述說溫哥華市百年來的都市發展、社會變遷，以及精彩的多元文化。