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1734 Dunbar Kitsilano	728-742 Jackson Strathcona	637 East Georgia Strathcona
This beautifully restored house is part of a wonderfully intact block of ten craftsman-style bungalows built by Vancouver contractor Samuel Wellington Hopper between 1911 and 1912. Eight of the ten houses in this block are on the heritage register. From 1913 to 1914 the Heritage A-rated house at 1710 Dunbar was home to the Reverend Samuel Dwight Chown (1853-1933) the head of the Methodist Church of Canada. Chown was instrumental in the creation of the United Church of Canada in 1925. Several churches, as well as a mountain and a glacier in the Canadian Rockies, are named after him. The same house was home in the seventies for Edward A. Siefred, a barrister, and a director of the US-based National Organization for The Reform of Marijuana Laws.	The small framed house at 728 Jackson goes back to at least 1895. For its first ten years it was home to Hotel Vancouver employee Arthur Hortin. The modest, five-unit row house to its south was built from 1908 to 1909 and replaced a house that previously existed on the site from 1899 to 1908. From 1910 to 1950, there existed an additional house in the narrow space that now exists between 728 Jackson and the neighbouring row house. The row house was home to working class men and families. Many of the early residents were seasonal workers in the logging industry. Others were CPR railway employees, many of them working as porters at the nearby station. From the 1920s on most of the residents were   Chinese cooks and laborers. The house and row house have been bought recently and are currently being rehabilitated and restored.	Nova Scotia-born contractor Bedford Davison built this recently restored bay-windowed house on East Georgia in 1904 for Scottish-born furniture retailer Peter A. Wright. Wright and his wife Annie lived in the house for only a couple of years. The next occupants were Finlay D. MacLennan and his wife Mary. MacLennan was, with his two brothers, John and Neil, a proprietor of an early Vancouver Hotel and Saloon called the Cabinet Hotel at 170 Water Street (on the southeast corner of Water and Cambie Streets.)  The three brothers were known locally in early Vancouver as the “Scots Greys.” Chinese families lived in the house during the depression. From 1936 to 1960 Italian-born Broadway Hotel Shoeshine proprietor Francesco Lastoria’s family lived in the house. From 1961, longshoreman Michael Harahuc and his family lived here.
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