Vancouver’s Black Community
This panel from the Hope Meets Action exhibition presents photographs of members of the African Methodist Episcopal Fountain Chapel in Vancouver circa 1935. The chapel was originally established in 1921. The church was a linchpin for the Black Strathcona neighborhood. Nora Hendrix noted in the book Opening Doors, “all the families and everybody that wanted…![Vancouver’s Black Community](https://learning.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/backlit-panel-1-480x360.jpg)