Chinese Canadian Museum
Nineteenth-century brick merchant's warehouse turned family compound, linked by a covered elevated walkway above a busy market alley.
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This guide to the Chinese Canadian Museum in Vancouver traces Yip Sang, who arrived in the city in 1881 with almost nothing, worked as a bookkeeper for the Canadian Pacific Railway, and by 1889 had built his own brick warehouse on this spot for his import company. It follows how his family grew, and the covered wooden bridge he built above the alley market rather than clear it away. Look up at the alley behind the building to picture where that crossing once ran.
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