Talk:Fountain Chapel

overblown language

Fountain Chapel building is the sole structural marker that there was ever a vibrant black community in Vancouver’s East End (today’s Strathcona neighbourhood).

And also "once-flourishing black community in t he aeraz. Both make it sound like Strathcona wsas a black district, adn taht there was a black culture-area (other than nearby Hogan's Alley, which [i]sort of[/iu] was). Thing is Strathcona was also a flourishing/vibrant Jewish community/neighbourhood, also a Russian one, and so on. What else was there on Jackson Avenue that made this a "black community". I'd venture that hte black commuinty was city-wide (escepting whither-than-white areas like Kerrisdale) and the congregation here made the trip to Strathcona, rather than was Stratchcona-based as the article currently implies.Skookum1 (talk) 15:04, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Blacks did live throughout the city, and their numbers were always small, but there was nonetheless a "community" of them in this area (Fountain Chapel is in Hogan's Alley, btw). Nothing in this article says, or implies, that it was an exclusively black neighbourhood. There was never an exclusively Italian Little Italy in Vancouver either, but that doesn't mean there isn't/wasn't a bona fide Little Italy. There are "structural markers" for other groups in Strathcona - the Russian Peoples' Home, the Ukrainian Hall, the old Synagogue (now condos), etc. - and articles on those would no doubt mention their significance to those communities. As for "overblown language," if you want to strip this of adjectives (vibrant, flourishing), feel free, but IMO, I don't think it would make it any less POV or inaccurate. bobanny (talk) 23:39, 9 May 2008 (UTC)