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Chinatown remains a popular tourist attraction and is one of the largest historic Chinatowns in North America, but it experienced recent decline as newer members of Vancouver's Chinese community dispersed to other parts of the metropolitan area.
1 de feb. de 2017 · Vancouver's Chinatown features a distinctive hybrid of architectural styles that combines Chinese regional architecture with locally established Western motifs. The main streets in Chinatown follow a traditional Western grid pattern, while the north side is distinguished by interior courtyards, alleyways and façades that face both ...
First settled in the 1880s, Vancouver’s Chinatown is one of the oldest and largest in Canada. Its evolution, fabric, and continued vitality reflect the contributions and struggles of Chinese Canadians over the years.
Guide to Vancouver's Chinatown written in the 1930s by one of its residents. Chinatown was originally the only place in Vancouver that white settlers allowed people of Asian descent to reside. It is the largest historical Chinatown in Canada and is located in the Downtown Eastside area of the city.
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During the late 19th Century, what would come to be known as Vancouver’s Chinatown consisted of roughly 90 Chinese residents in the neighbourhood of Carrall Street and Pender Street, then called Dupont. Many arrived in Vancouver to work at the Hasting Sawmill, or take advantage of lucrative trade opportunities.
The Chinese Benevolent Association of Vancouveris founded by merchants Wong Soon King, Lee Kee, Shum Moon, Yip Sang, Leong Suey, and Chow Tong to support Vancouver’s Chinese community. Headquarters are built on Dupont Street.
Chinatown residents number over 1000, mostly in multi-family dwellings and single rooms packed with workers. Businesses including grocery stores, butcher shops, tailors, and saloons, and a 500 seat theatre were built in the neighbourhood to service the community.
Construction of new tenement housing on Carrall Street creates the areas which come to be known as Shanghai Alley and Canton Alley.
A riot headed by Vancouver’s Asiatic Exclusion League between September 7 and September 9 leads to attacks on dozens of Chinese residents, and the damaging of numerous businesses and homes. After order was restored, then Labour Minister William Lyon Mackenzie-King compensates damages to the order of $36,000 to the affected communities.
Chinatown now covers four square blocks between Carrall Street and Main Street, then called Westminster Avenue.
Vancouver’s Chinese population numbers 3,559 making it the largest Chinese population and Chinatown in Canada – a designation it holds to this day.
Construction begins on the Sam Kee, located on Pender Street. After 24 feet of depth is appropriated from the lot by the City of Vancouver, Sam Kee commissions a building designed by architects Brown and Gillam, with a ground floor measuring at a depth of 4 foot 11 inches. Overhanging windows above add depth on the second floor, while basements ext...
Chinatown grows significantly in population and infrastructure, featuring two Chinese theatres, a library, a hospital, six schools. Many benevolent associations and organizations construct their headquarters, using a mixture of Western and Chinese architecture styles.
The Parliament of Canada passed the Chinese Immigration Act, which would come to be known as the Chinese Exclusion Act. This comes to have a heavy impact on Vancouver’s Chinese population.
15 de jul. de 2019 · In 1907, an anti-immigration rally explodes into violence and vandalism in Vancouver's Chinatown and Japantown.
Chinatown exists today because of the struggles of thousands of immigrants who strove to make decent lives for themselves in an unwelcoming land. This project is a partnership with the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association.
