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Vancouver's Chinatown in 1927. Chinatown is a neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, and is Canada's largest Chinatown.Centred around Pender Street, it is surrounded by Gastown to the north, the Downtown financial and central business districts to the west, the Georgia Viaduct and the False Creek inlet to the south, the Downtown Eastside and the remnant of old Japantown to the northeast ...
Chinatowns in Canada generally exist in the large cities of Vancouver, Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, and Montreal, and existed in some smaller towns throughout the history of Canada. Prior to 1900, almost all Chinese were located in British Columbia , but have spread throughout Canada thereafter.
'Zhongshan Park') is a Chinese garden in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Located in the city's Chinatown, it was the first Chinese garden built outside of Asia. It is located at 578 Carrall Street and consists of a freely accessible public park and a garden with an admission fee. The mandate of the garden is to "maintain and enhance the ...
The Vancouver Chinatown is the largest Chinatown in Canada. [31] In 1981, the vast majority of Chinese in Greater Vancouver lived in the Vancouver city limits. At the time Chinese were concentrated in the East End of Vancouver, namely Chinatown and Strathcona. [32] By the mid-1990s Chinese had moved into Kerrisdale and Shaughnessy. In those ...
The Kuomintang Building (Chinese: 國民黨大樓), also known as the Chinese Nationalist League Building, is a historic four-storey building in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is located in the southeast corner of the city's Chinatown , at the intersection of Gore Avenue and Pender Street.
This parade developed into a riot that caused damage to Vancouver's Chinatown and Japantown. [27] The 1911 census stated that Vancouver had 3,559 Chinese, giving it the largest Chinese population in all of Canada. That year, Victoria had 3,458 Chinese. Victoria had Canada's second-largest Chinatown. [53]
It serves as a federation of various Vancouver-based Chinese organizations. [2] Douglas Aitken of The Georgia Straight stated that the CBA was the most important organization operating in the Vancouver Chinatown in the first half of the 20th century. [3] The Vancouver Sun wrote "They were, for all intents and purposes, the government of Chinatown."
The Chinese Cultural Centre is a Chinese community centre, museum, and municipal archives facility located in Vancouver Chinatown. It was founded in 1973 and opened to the public in 1980. [1] [2] It houses the Chinese Canadian Military Museum Society on the second floor.