Return to Paueru Gai: Fifty Years of Vancouver's Powell Street Festival

Essays about the remarkable history of Vancouver's Powell Street Festival and the proud Japanese Canadian community behind it

Paueru Gai, the Powell Street neighbourhood in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, was a place of early settlement and forced removal for Japanese Canadians during the shameful years of internment in World War II. But Paueru Gai is also a site of regeneration: Since 1977, a diverse array of people gathers every August in Vancouver's Oppenheimer Park and the surrounding ne...