Dubbed an early and rare example of a Chinese temple in Canada, Victoria’s Tam Kung Temple is now a national historic site.
A few wealthy Chinese merchants from San Francisco came to Victoria by boat in June 1858 ... during the 1870s, was British Columbia's third largest export item to the United States after coal and furs ...
The Tam Kung Temple, on the top floor of a narrow building on Government Street, is the oldest Chinese temple in Canada ...
A nearly 150-year-old Chinese temple in Victoria has just been designated a national historic site by the Canadian government ...