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 St James Anglican Church is founded in one of the most remarkable communities in North America.  Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, abbreviated ‘DTES’, marks an extraordinary crossroads of Indigenous societies, colonial settlement, historical eras, ethnic diversity, historical injustice, social movements, and community activism.  The Downtown Eastside is actually a community of communities, comprising: Chinatown, Japantown, Gastown, Strathcona/Oppenheimer, and the Powell/Cordova Commercial Corridor.  St James Church has been active at the very heart of this parish, engaging the people here since 1881, before there was a Vancouver.