Davie Village

This Day is designed to build awareness and promote the surrounding businesses, and is focused around Jervis to Burrard Street.

[6] Jamie Lee Hamilton, a former worker within the area, claims in a The Volcano article that the neighbourhood was “dignified outdoor brothel culture".

[8][9] In 1980, when Davie Street started to generate profit off of queer owned properties and business aesthetics, the visible state of the sex work scene became more and more unwanted.

[10] In 1983, a group called the Concerned Residents of the West End (CROWE), consisting of primarily white gay men and women, worked with the city to get a BC Supreme Court injunction to displace sex workers.

[7] This relocation also contributed many of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) cases that were largely tied to serial killer Robert Pickton in the early 2000s.

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