West End Sex Workers Memorial

On September 16, 2016 the City of Vancouver unveiled the West End Sex Workers Memorial on Jervis Street in front of the Saint Paul's Anglican Church. The project began in 2008...

Press coverage: West End Sex Workers Memorial

• Back when the West End had sex worker strolls: Pushing the hookers out 'desexualized and sanitized' the gaybourhood
  Xtra West, June 18, 2009
• City of Vancouver working on proposed West End sex worker memorial
  Georgia Straight, July 5, 2016
• Vancouver will commemorate sex workers' ouster from West End
  Georgia Straight, September 7, 2016
• Sex workers to be honoured with West End monument: 'It's a powerful symbol of our community and the place that we had there,' says Jamie Lee Hamilton
  Xtra Magazine, September 13, 2016
• West End sex workers honoured with memorial
  Vancouver Sun, September 17, 2016
• City of Vancouver unveils West End Sex Workers Memorial
  Georgia Straight, September 19, 2016
• Pete McMartin: Can a neighbourhood be complicit in murder?
  Vancouver Sun, September 20, 2016

Memorializing Sex Workers in Vancouver's West End

• PDF: "Loss Must Be Marked and It Cannot Be Represented": Memorializing Sex Workers in Vancouver's West End. Becki L. Ross and Jamie Lee Hamilton, BC Studies (Issue 197) Spring 2018