Vancouver's Chinatown: Past, Present, and Future

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Vancouver's Chinatown: Past, Present, and Future uses the stories of Chinatown's buildings to chronicle the evolution of this important Vancouver community. The film follows Chinatown's history from its humble beginnings as a place and community for labouring Chinese men and their wooden shacks to its heyday where Chinese Canadians like Yip Sang, H.Y. Louie, Bick Lee, Mary Lee Chan, groups like the Chinese Student Soccer Team and associations like the Yue Shan Society strengthened the community and helped to extend it beyond Chinatown. However, today's Chinatown is losings its former vitality and is becoming more and more neglected. For a place that is so important to the history of Vancouver and Canada, if this decline is allowed to continue, what does the future hold in store for Vancouver's Chinatown?
This film was created for the Chinatown Gala Dinner held on May 14, 2009, by UBC History 483 students Alejandro Yoshizawa and Jennifer Yip. Funding was generously provided by the Community Historical Recognition Program (CHRP), INSTRCC UBC, and UBC Library.
Many of the historical photographs used in this film and displayed at the Chinatown Gala Dinner were lent from the private collections of the many families who grew up in Chinatown during the 1930s to the 1970s. Copyright is retained by these families and the reproduction or use of the images for any other purposes is strictly prohibited.

[@jaimemelo7511]

Beautiful! Thank you for posting it. I sure miss the Chinatown of years past.
It became a home away from my birth home to me, so many fond memories!

[@nonename7869]

Can we connect to unify and resurrect Chinatown and protect our elders from violent crimes?

[@martykong3592]

😀 THANK YOU for sharing! Grew up there in the 50-60's and still have many fond memories of what it was! 249 E Pender... Valley Poultry store :) Wo Lay Guy Ahp ? ALL THE BEST and Cheers! :)

[@FMHammyJ]

Makes me sad that Chinatown isn't as vibrant as my youth....still love visiting it, though.....

[@nonename7869]

Can we connect to unify and resurrect Chinatown and protect our elders from violent crimes?

[@ButterCupMMXXIII]

Excellent, enjoyed this so much, thank you!

[@gerryboudreaultboudreault2608]

I lived in the DTES just out of Chinatown in the '90s. Enjoyed visiting there, for the exotic little curios shops etc. And the smiling clerks(who largely did not speak English like me). My alltime favorite spot was/is the classical Chinese Gardens(Sun YatSen). Neighborhood has changed from old days, unfortunately..

[@Explore-Your-City]

6:33 Great to see my club Shon Yee doing the dragon dance back in the day

[@sandrasaddleman581]

I always enjoyed going to Chinatown.

[@elee6606]

Move the flagship for Chinatown to Richmond

[@marilynmonroeaviationhd]

I'm Bengali

[@redmusichouse]

Good video but the narrator doesn't enunciate very well