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Learn about the history, geography, and culture of Canada's largest Chinatown, located in Vancouver, British Columbia. Explore its landmarks, businesses, architecture, and community groups.
Volume on the old bridge was 127,000 trips per day. [18] Approximately 8 percent of the traffic on the Port Mann bridge was truck traffic. [19] The old bridge was the longest arch bridge in Canada and third-longest in the world at the time of its inauguration. At the time of construction, it was the most expensive piece of highway in Canada.
Expo 86 was a 1986 World's Fair on transportation and communication, held to celebrate Vancouver's centennial. It attracted over 22 million visitors and featured a monorail, a SkyTrain, a gondola, and other innovations.
Learn about the history, demographics and locations of Chinatowns in Canada, from the oldest in Victoria to the largest in Vancouver. Find out how Chinatowns have evolved over time and adapted to changing social and economic conditions.
The current Georgia Viaduct was envisioned in the early 1970s as replacing the original structure, continuing to overpass the CPR rail yards while forming part of an extensive freeway system for Vancouver. Although communities were opposed to demolition and the expanded freeway plan was scrapped, the replacement viaduct project proceeded.
Stadium–Chinatown (formerly Stadium) is an elevated station on the Expo Line of Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system. The station is located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, at the eastern entrance of the Dunsmuir Tunnel. It is one of four stations on the Expo Line that serve Downtown Vancouver.
Learn about the history of Vancouver, British Columbia, from its First Nations settlements to its modern development. The city was founded in 1886 by a group of businessmen who wanted to create a railway terminus on the Pacific coast.
The Sam Kee Building in Vancouver, Canada, is a two-storey building with a ground-floor depth of 4 feet 11 inches (1.50 m) and an upper-floor depth of 6 feet (1.8 m). It was built in 1913 as a spite house by Chang Toy, a Chinese businessman, after his land was expropriated by the city for widening Pender Street.