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Yellow and white dragon dancers snaked out of the Chinese Cultural Centre at noon Saturday, the clash of cymbals and pounding ...
Organizers of the Vancouver Chinatown Festival said security is their top priority in the wake of the Lapu Lapu festival ...
Vancouver Chinatown's once-iconic array of storefront neon lights may soon return after B.C.'s government announced a one-time grant towards such revitalization projects. British Columbia Premier ...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Vancouver Chinatown Foundation is pleased to announce a $2.2 million grant from the Province of British Columbia to support the revitalization ...
One of the most visible neighbourhoods to undergo such rejuvenation is Chinatown. It was initially developed along Carrall and Pender Street by the Chinese labourers who first settled in the 1880’s.
Vancouver's Chinatown is one of the oldest in the country, established in the late 1880s when early Chinese immigrants, many of them railway workers, settled in the area near what is now the downtown ...
For more than 130 years, Vancouver’s Chinatown has been a ghetto for immigrants from southern China who built Canada’s national railway, hence its location close to the former railway terminus.