Vancouver Chinatown real estate bustle puts hundreds of historic photos, documents at risk

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Joanne Lee-Young, Vancouver Sun, July 6, 2016

Tim Wong keeps the keys to a gate at the top of a staircase inside an old Vancouver Chinatown building. The 80-year-old also keeps many of its stories, some of them unwritten anywhere, going back over 100 years in city history. Read more…

Tim Wong at Wong’s Benevolent Association at 123A East Pender St. in Vancouver.
NICK PROCAYLO / PNG

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