2008-07-27T19:42:00.000-07:00

CHINA TOWN VANCOUVER CITY

...... Ken & Harriet Aitken's Trip to Canada .....

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Vancouver's Chinatown is a community with a long history. The first Chinese immigrants to British Columbia arrived in 1858 from California where they had worked for more than a decade. From California, they followed the stream of fortune seekers that came to BC searching for gold. When the gold rush ended many of those that had traveled up the coast found work stringing telegraph wires or working in canneries. The building of the Canadian Pacific Railway sparked the next large influx of immigrants as 17,000 Chinese came to Canada between 1881 and 1885.

Read more on the history of the Chinese community in Vancouver City at this website.

See the Sun Yat Garden Blog Site A beautiful Chinese Garden within China Town itself where we spent many hours walking around and enjoying the beauty of the gardens.

Sun Yat-sen was a Chinese revolutionary and political Father of Modern China. Sun played an instrumental role in the eventual collapse of the Qing Dynasty in 1911. He was the first provisional president when the Republic of China (ROC) was founded in 1912 and later co-founded the Kuomintang (KMT) where he served as its first leader. Sun was a uniting figure in post-Imperial China, and remains unique among 20th-century Chinese politicians for being widely revered in both MainlandChina and in Taiwan.

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See the Website here of how China Town
in Vancouver city was commenced.

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Vancouver China Town

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