nameisbond
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My dad told me they had one black kid in town growing up in the 50’s, he was half black and everyone called him n____r Williams. Times were definitely different.
Black people didn't like Vancouver, the city was pretty racist in the 1950's. We had segregation, etc. There is a real estate development here built by the Guinness family in the 1940/50's called the British Properties. Its mostly mansions. The original land titles had a no sales to Jews, Asians and blacks. The province didn't remove those title restrictions here until 1978. Net result not many black people in Vancouver, guess they didn't feel welcome. Other neighborhoods had the no sales to Jews, Asians and blacks. Sometimes homes in long term ownership still have these titles. Hell in the 1960's Sammy Davis Jr had to stay in a whorehouse because no hotel here would allow black guests.