Downtown Eastside

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PlaceName	Downtown Eastside
Desc	Neighbourhood located in Vancouver, British Columbia. Historically included Vancouver's Nihonmachi. Large Japanese and Chinese immigrant communities settled here and created Japantown and nearby Chinatown.

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Oral Histories (2)

Ellen Crowe-Swords, interviewed by Kyla Fitzgerald, 27 July 2017

Roger Kishi, interviewed by Carolyn Nakagawa, 10 April 2018

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Places (15)

Terminology

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