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Due to the increase of Chinese in Vancouver, by 1994 many Vancouver supermarkets sold Chinese food items, and ethnic Chinese and non-ethnic Chinese purchased these items. [96] T & T Supermarket was established in 1993 by Cindy Lee and her husband Jack.
While traveling the world to raise awareness of, and funding for, the Chinese nationalist movement, Sun Yat-Sen stayed in Vancouver on three occasions for extended periods. At the time, there was a significant presence of Chinese nationalists in British Columbia, who helped finance the Xinhai Revolution that overthrew the Qing dynasty in 1911 ...
The Vancouver Courier. Archived from the original on 21 March 2006. Mullens, Anne (March 18, 2004). "Short trips: Thriving Asian suburb offers an exotic escape". NWsource. Seattle, Washington. Archived from the original on 25 April 2005. Chou, Hsiao-Ching (November 11, 2003). "On Food: Seeking the best Chinese food?
The launch of the North-West America at Nootka Sound, 1788. While the legend of the mythical country of Fusang is sometimes claimed to refer to Chinese monks in British Columbia in the 6th Century AD, it wasn't until the late 1780s that the first confirmed record was made of Chinese arrivals in BC.
The Concord Pacific Dragon Boat Festival is a legacy of Expo 86, where Vancouver's Chinese-Canadian community introduced the traditional annual Chinese Duanwu Festival (summer solstice) to Canada as a cultural outreach program to share Chinese culture with the city's multi-cultural population. The dragon boat festival was created to promote ...
The Crystal Mall (Traditional Chinese: 麗晶廣場) is a shopping mall oriented towards the local Chinese community in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. [1] It is located at 4500 Kingsway at the intersection with Willingdon Avenue in Metrotown, directly adjoined to the Hilton Metrotown Vancouver Hotel. A 26 floor residential tower called ...
Canadian Chinese cuisine originated in the mid-19th century, primarily in Western Canada and the Canadian Prairies, among Chinese immigrants who moved to Canada, and among Chinese labourers working on the Canadian Pacific Railway between Vancouver, British Columbia, and Montreal, Quebec.
Mon Keang School (Chinese: 文彊學校) is a Chinese school located inside the Wongs' Benevolent Association Building at 123A East Pender Street, in the Chinatown of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Classes have historically been taught in Cantonese, the prestige variety of Yue Chinese.