East Side Stories Bibliography

East Side Stories Bibliography – WEB VERSION

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Assembled by Savannah Walling

THE OLD EAST END – All Super Resources!!!!!
Barnholden, M. & Newman, N. Street Stories: 100 Years of Homelessness in Vancouver
Francis, Daniel, Red Light Neon: A History of Vancouver’s Sex Trade
Hayes, Derek, Historical Atlas of Vancouver and the Lower Fraser Valley
Knight, R. Along the No. 20 Line: Reminiscences of the Vancouver Waterfront
Marlatt, D. And Itter, C. Opening Doors: Vancouver’s East End
MacDonald, B., Vancouver, A Visual History
McKellar, Keith , Neon Eulogy: Vancouver Café and Street

HISTORIC BLACK COMMUNITY
Crawford, Killian, Go Do Some Great Thing: Black Pioneers of British Columbia
Compton, Wade, Bluesprint: Black British Columbia Literature and Orature
Miller, M., Such Melodious Racket: The Lost History of Jazz in Canada, 1914-1949

CHINATOWN
Choy, Wayson, Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood
Morton, J., In the Sea of Sterile Mountains: The Chinese in British Columbia
Yee, P., Saltwater City: An Illustrated History of the Chinese in Vancouver

FIRST NATIONS
Carlson, K.T. Editor, A Stolo Coast Salish Historical Atlas
Harris, C., The Resettlement of British Columbia: Essays on Colonialism and Geographical Change
Knight, R. Indians at Work: Informal History of Native Labour in British Columbia, 1858-1930
Musqueam Comprehensive Land Claim Preliminary Report on Musqueam Land Use and Occupancy, presented to the Office of Native Claims by the Musqueam Band Council, June, 1984
Tslei-Waututh First Nation and Alexander Hertiage Consulting, Tsleil-Waututh First Nation Eco-Cultural Resource Guide for Burrard Inlet and Indian Arm, 2001
XAY TEMIXW Land Use Plan: For the Forests and Wilderness of the Squamish Nation Traditional Territory, First Draft, May, 2001, Land and Resources Committee, Squamish Nation

GASTOWN
Keller, B., On the Shady Side: Vancouver 1886-1914
Penthick,D., Vancouver: The Pioneer Years 1774-1886

JAPANTOWN
Adachi, K., The Enemy That Never Was: A History of the Japanese Canadians
Wakayama, T. 1877-1977: The Japanese Canadians: A Dream of Riches
Wakayama, T., Kikyo: Coming Home to Powell St.

LABOUR HISTORY
Barnholden, Michael, Reading the Riot Act: A Brief History of Riots in Vancouver
Brodie, S., Bloody Sunday and Vancouver 1938 – Recollections of the Post Office Sitdown of Single Unemployed

MAIN AND HASTINGS
Cameron, Sandy, Fighting for Community: Stories from the Carnegie Centre and the DTES
Canning-Drew, J. and Kimbley, L., editors, Hastings and Main: Stories from an Inner City Community
Cran, B. and Gillian J., Hope in Shadows: Stories and Photographs of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
Douglas, Stan, Every Building on 100 West Hastings
Taylor, P., The Heart of the Community: The Best of the Carnegie Newsletter
Robertson and D. Culhane, In Plain Sight: Reflections on Life in Downtown Eastside Vancouver

STRATHCONA
Atkin, J. Strathcona: Vancouver’s First Neighbourhood
Herron, N., Robert M. and Ken W. Strathcona Memories 1891-1991: In Celebration fo 100 Years of Serving Students and Parents

HISTORICAL CHRONOLOGIES published in Vancouver Moving Theatre Program Guides
The Downtown Eastside (In the Heart of a City: The Downtown Eastside Community Play)
Drug Use in the Downtown Eastside and its Global Context (We’re All In this Together: The Shadows Project)
Housing in the Downtown Eastside (A Downtown Eastside Romeo and Juliet)

SELF-GUIDED WALKING TOURS
Atkin, John, Vancouver Walks (Gastown, Main and Hastings, Chinatown)
Atkin, John, editor, Old Vancouver Townsite Walking Tour
Footprints Community Art Project: Old Vancouver Townsite Walking Tour
Nearing, Rosemary, The Waterfront: Canada Place, Coal Harbour, Gastown
Vancouver and District Labour Council: Labour, Work and Working People: A Working Class and Labour History Walking Tour
Vancouver Heritage Foundation, Historic Map-Guide Japantown Vancouver
Vancouver Heritage Foundation, Carrall Street Greenway Historic Map Guide
Vancouver Heritage Foundation, Vancouver’s Chinatown Historic Society Buildings

Vancouver Heritage Foundation map-guides are available free of charge at the VHF office @ 402-510 W. Hastings (M-F, 9 am- 5 pm)