新的加拿大皇家造幣廠紀念霍根巷失落的社區

隨著黑人歷史月的開始，斯特拉斯科納（Strathcona）的小型西南角因其為1900年代初到1960年代的黑人社區提供的空間而得到認可。

As Black History Month begins, a small, southwestern corner of Strathcona is being recognized for the space it gave the Black community from the early 1900s up until the 1960s.

隨著黑人歷史月的開始，從1900年代初到1960年代，它為黑人社區提供的空間而被認可了Strathcona的一個小小的西南角。

Hogan’s Alley, an unofficial name for the Park Lane alley running from Main Street to Jackson Avenue, was a strip where Black businesses, families and the city’s only Black church thrived. Earlier this month, the Royal Canadian Mint announced it would be paying tribute to the lost neighbourhood with a new, silver collectors coin depicting a number of iconic Hogan’s Alley figures.

霍根（Hogan）的小巷（Hogan's Alley）是從大街到傑克遜大道（Jackson Avenue）跑步的公園巷巷（Park Lane Alley）的一個非正式名稱，是一個地帶，黑人企業，家庭和城市唯一的黑人教堂蓬勃發展。本月初，加拿大皇家造幣廠宣布，將向失落的社區致敬，其中一枚新的銀收藏家硬幣描繪了許多標誌性的霍根（Hogan）的小巷。

Among them, a cook from one of the famed women-owned chicken restaurants, a choir in a nod to the African Methodist Episcopal Fountain Chapel, a Black railway sleeping car porter, two dancers and a pianist, a saxophonist and a singer, representing the nightclubs’ and speakeasies’ vibrant conveyor belt of musicians.

其中，來自一家著名的婦女雞肉餐廳的廚師，一個向非洲衛理公會主教噴泉教堂致敬的合唱團，一輛黑色的鐵路臥舖車搬運工，兩名舞者和一名鋼琴家，一名薩克斯風格和一名歌手，代表了一名歌手夜總會和演講的音樂家傳送帶。

The members of the community surround an engraved Pacific Dogwood, B.C.’s provincial flower.

社區的成員圍繞著刻有不列顛哥倫比亞省省花的雕刻太平洋山茱wood。

The collectors coin, retailing at $119.95 and with a mintage of 5,000, illustrates the “spirit and vitality” of Hogan’s Alley, says the Royal Canadian Mint’s Pascale Poulin.

皇家加拿大皇家造幣廠的Pascale Poulin說，收藏家硬幣的零售價為119.95美元，鑄幣量為5,000美元，說明了霍根（Hogan）小巷的“精神和活力”。

“Hogan’s Alley is an inspiring and important part of Black history in Canada,” says Poulin.

Poulin說：“霍根的小巷是加拿大黑人歷史的鼓舞人心和重要的一部分。”

“We hope that our coin will help preserve their memory and help people living across the country understand the history of Black settlement in Canada, and its role in shaping our country’s diverse and shared identity.”

“我們希望我們的硬幣將有助於保留他們的記憶，並幫助生活在全國各地的人們了解加拿大黑人定居的歷史，及其在塑造我們國家多樣化和共同身份方面的作用。”

In the 1960s, the majority of Vancouver’s original Black community was displaced when the City of Vancouver issued housing redevelopment plans, bulldozing Hogan’s Alley to make way for the Vancouver viaducts.

1960年代，當溫哥華市發布住房重建計劃時，溫哥華的大部分原始黑人社區都流離失所，推開了霍根（Hogan）的小巷，為溫哥華高架橋（Vancouver）鋪路。

Director Jamila Pomeroy, whose 2023 film Union Street centres on the neighbourhood’s history, says Vancouver’s Black community continues to feel the effects of this displacement through the city’s lack of cultural community space and continued, centralized Black community.

導演賈米拉·波默羅伊（Jamila Pomeroy）的2023年電影聯合街（Union Street）以該社區歷史為中心，他說，溫哥華的黑人社區繼續感受到這種流離失所的影響，這是該市缺乏文化社區空間和繼續，集中的黑人社區的影響。

“There is, sadly, no resurrecting Hogan’s Alley,” she says.

她說：“可悲的是，沒有復活霍根的小巷。”

“There is nothing that is going to bring back the business and artists, and there is certainly no easy fix to repairing the multigenerational trauma and financial turmoil this cultural erasure and displacement caused, and continues to radiate to this day,” she says.

她說：“沒有什麼能帶回商業和藝術家，並且可以修復這種文化擦除和流離失所的造成的多代創傷和金融動盪肯定沒有問題，”

The lost community can, however, have its legacy honoured by future city planning that authentically co-creates with the Black community, and by acknowledgments such as the one by the Royal Canadian Mint. Pomeroy says Hogan’s Alley being recognized via the coin makes her feel hopeful — we might not be able to change the past, she says, but “we can and will create a bright future for Black Vancouverites.”

但是，失落的社區可以通過與黑人社區的真實共同創建以及諸如皇家加拿大皇家造幣廠之類的認可，以實現未來的城市規劃來尊重其遺產。 Pomeroy說，霍根（Hogan）的小巷通過硬幣認可，使她感到有希望 - 我們可能無法改變過去，但“我們可以並且將為黑色溫哥華人創造一個光明的未來。”

“B.C. Black history has (been), and continues to be, excluded from broader historical conversations in our schools, universities and institutions, and I hope that this coin will encourage more conversation and trigger deeper learning,” Pomeroy says.

Pomeroy說：“卑詩省黑人歷史已經並且繼續被排除在我們的學校，大學和機構的更廣泛的歷史對話之外，我希望這種硬幣會鼓勵更多的對話並觸發更深入的學習。”

The coin marks the seventh the Canadian Mint has issued since it first began honouring Black History Month in 2019.

硬幣標誌著加拿大造幣廠首次開始紀念2019年黑人歷史月以來發行的第七枚。

The ongoing series celebrates the notable moments and figures in Canada’s Black history and their role in shaping Canada’s shared national identity, with previous acknowledgements given to activist and businesswoman Viola Desmond, and the NHL’s first Black player Willie O’Ree.

正在進行的系列賽慶祝加拿大黑人歷史上的著名時刻和數字及其在塑造加拿大共同的民族身份中的作用，以前給予了激進主義者和女商人Viola Desmond的認可，以及NHL的第一個黑人球員Willie O'Ree。

Edmonton’s Amber Valley community has also featured, alongside designs that honour The Black Loyalists, The Underground Railroad, and the No. 2 Construction Battalion.

埃德蒙頓（Edmonton）的琥珀谷社區（Amber Valley Community）還展示了紀念黑人忠誠主義者，地下鐵路和第二大營的設計。