User:Sidney Gordon/List of red-light districts

Canada
Prostitution itself is legal but the purchase of sexual services is not (the client commits the offence not the prostitute). Many associated activities (brothels, advertising, street walking) are also illegal.


 * Montreal
 * Red-Light District (historic)
 * Centre-Sud: The Centre-Sud, of which Sainte-Marie is a part, was notorious for prostitution from the 1980s well into the 2010s, particularly on Ontario Street. In recent years, gentrification has changed this significantly.
 * Hochelaga-Maisonneuve: Known for prostitution, especially in the Hochelaga segment.
 * Vancouver
 * Chinatown, Vancouver: Dupont Street, between Westminster Ave (Main Street) and Carrall, was Vancouver's first official red light district which began when Bridie Stewart set up a shop at 101 Dupont. The district was relocated in 1906 to Shanghai and Canton Alley, which collaboratively hosted 105 brothels. It was later closed and relocated to Shore Street, then Alexander in 1912.
 * West End, Vancouver: An unofficial city red-light district located on and around Davie Street. The sex work hub from the 1960's-1983. Coined the "Prostitution Capitol of Canada", which served as a safe community where cisgender, transgender, and two-spirit workers of many ages worked together and looked out for each others safety. The location of the informative documentary Hookers on Davie. Diminished by the 1983 injunction formed by the Concerned Residents of the West End (CROWE) which forcefully displaced sex workers out of the West End.
 * Downtown Eastside: An unlisted district in Vancouver where workers face routine violence and harassment. The Downtown Eastside is the sex trades final destination of city displacement over several years. In 2003, a large number of sex workers went missing and/or were murdered. Many of these were tied to serial killer Robert Pickton, and were the largest contributor to the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) cases over the years. Today workers are increasingly facing the effects of new developments and surveillance that are pushing them into isolated areas where they are at greater risk of harm; forcing them to rush or forgo screening and negotiation processes that puts them at a greater risk of bad dates and STI contraction.