While Minister of Labour, King was appointed to investigate the causes of and claims for compensation resulting from the 1907 Asiatic Exclusion League riots in Vancouver's Chinatown and Japantown.

Vancouver's Chinatown is the largest in Canada.

" On 18 October 1959, Vancouver's Chinatown News described Susan Chew as a " supermodel ".

Vancouver's historic Chinatown ( Pender and Keefer Streets run through its center ) and Gastown Historical District ( Water Street ) are popular tourist areas in the Downtown Eastside.

** An anti-Asian riot attacks Vancouver's Chinatown

The station went on-air June 27, 2003 from studios at the intersection of Pender and Columbia Streets in Vancouver's Chinatown under the name " channel m ".

This new area is designated the " Golden Village " by the City of Richmond, which met resistance to the proposed renaming of the area to " Chinatown " both from merchants in Vancouver's Chinatown and also from non-Chinese residents and merchants in Richmond itself.

* Lord Strathcona Elementary School, the oldest public school in Greater Vancouver, is the only public school serving Vancouver's Chinatown.

As Vancouver's leading cabinet minister, Basford is credited with helping to scuttle plans for an expressway along the city's waterfront that would have levelled the Gastown and Chinatown neighbourhoods, for encouraging local planning and neighbourhood improvement, and for helping win federal support for the construction of thousands of units of co-operative housing in the city.

The " Chinatown " portion of the station's name was added in 2004, after Vancouver City Council felt it would increase tourism to the area and increase awareness to visitors about Vancouver's ever-expanding Chinatown district, just one block away.

His primary school was in Vancouver's Chinatown.

The Vancouver Art Gallery is the monthly meeting spot for Vancouver's Critical Mass, as well as flash mobs, the Zombie Walk, Pro-Marijuana rallies, and numerous environmental demonstrations.

There are numerous residential condo and apartment towers under construction along the southeastern end of Robson near Yaletown past the bustling Granville Mall, whereas the northwestern end becomes part of Vancouver's West End neighbourhood containing older residential highrises near the quieter Stanley Park and Lost Lagoon ; the last few blocks of Robson between Denman and Lost Lagoon are part of the Stanley Park Neighbourhood.

The museum also has extensive galleries of model ships, including one with historic model ships built entirely from cardboard or paper as well as a particularly fine bone model of the French warship Vengeur du Peuple which was built around 1800 by French prisoners of war, a Children's Maritime Discovery Centre, a recreation of the forecastle of Vancouver's ship Discovery, an extensive collection of maritime art, and a large library and archives.

One of Vancouver's oldest neighbourhoods, Hastings-Sunrise is primarily residential, with a dense strip of shops and services along East Hastings Street and in pockets along Nanaimo Street, Broadway, Boundary Road and Renfrew Street.

Since 2011, CHFM-FM is once again the only adult contemporary station in Calgary ( like most Western Canada markets including Vancouver's CHQM-FM & Edmonton's CKEA-FM ) since the move of modern adult contemporary from CHUP-FM ( by that time CIGY-FM, although that station is now adult hits ) to CFIT-FM, replacing rock-leaning adult contemporary.

Soon they decided to form their own guerrilla organization, later named Direct Action, with the addition of Julie Belmas and Gerry Hannah, local fixtures of Vancouver's punk scene.

In the province of British Columbia, the city of Vancouver since 2002 has established a new bilingual Mandarin Chinese-English immersion programme at the elementary school level in order accommodate Vancouver's both historic and present strong ties to the Chinese-speaking world, already in itself having a very sizeable Chinese population local to the city.

Some of Vancouver's and Toronto's dragon boat volunteers were instrumental in helping to establish the ' first generation ' of Canadian festivals that had the support of the local Chinese business communities in Regina, Calgary, Edmonton, Victoria, Kelowna, Ottawa, Montreal, London, and Kingston.

However, it went into decline as newer members of Vancouver's Cantonese Chinese community dispersed to other areas of the metropolis.

Two satellite campuses are located in Vancouver's Downtown at Harbour Centre, and in Surrey.

In 2003 Vancouver Moving Theatre partnered with the Carnegie Community Centre to put on the Heart of the City Festival, the City of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside Revitalization link which attracted thousands of visitors from outside the area.

It is the fifth largest shopping mall in Canada and also enjoys the second highest sales per unit area of any mall in Canada, after Vancouver's Pacific Centre, with current merchandise sales levels at over $ 1, 100 ( CAD )/ square foot.

Make A Wish with Sharon, Lois & Bram premiered in June 1995 for extended runs in Vancouver's H. R. MacMillan Space Centre and Toronto's McLaughlin Planetarium, which no longer exists.

Vancouver's first naval service was as a midshipman aboard, on James Cook's second voyage ( 1772 – 1775 ) searching for Terra Australis.

The terms of their subsequent legal dispute required both parties to keep the peace, but nothing stopped Vancouver's civilian brother Charles from interposing and giving Pitt blow after blow until onlookers restrained the attacker.

However it and the Fraser River never made it onto Vancouver's charts.

Vancouver's journals exhibit a high degree of sensitivity to natives.

Robin Fisher notes that Vancouver's " relationships with aboriginal groups were generally peaceful ; indeed, his detailed survey would not have been possible if they had been hostile.

" While there were hostile incidents at the end of Vancouver's last season – the most serious of which involved a clash with Tlingits at Behm Canal in southeast Alaska in 1794 – these were the exceptions to Vancouver's exploration of the U. S. and Canadian Northwest coast.

Lewis and Clark carried a copy of Vancouver's map of the lower Columbia.

Austin, Texas's Big Boys, San Francisco's Dead Kennedys, and Vancouver's D. O. A.

Greater Vancouver has seven suburban municipalities with at least 100, 000 people, with the largest being Surrey and Vancouver's direct neighbors Burnaby and Richmond.

The reformed Band were recorded live in concert at Vancouver's Queen Elizabeth Theatre that year, assisted by four extra musicians ; It has been released as The Band Reunion and The Band is Back.

In May of that year, Royal Navy officers and members of Vancouver's expedition, Joseph Whidbey and Peter Puget, began to map and explore the areas of what would later be named Puget Sound.

Vancouver's expedition occurred within a year of Eliza's, and Vancouver encountered other Spanish ships and traded information.

The island was originally named Quadra's and Vancouver's Island in commemoration of the friendly negotiations held by Spanish Commander of the Nootka Sound settlement Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, and British Naval Captain George Vancouver on Nootka Sound in 1792, to find a solution to the Nootka Crisis.

In the early seventies, he began working as a freelance journalist and critic for various publications and newspapers, including The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the Vancouver Sun, The New Reader, Books in Canada, the Victoria Times-Colonist and Vancouver's The Province — where he was the poetry critic for two years, and had his own column.

The demise of the CBC Radio Orchestra was met with a negative reaction in the classical music community and significant coverage in the media including a front page, large article in the Vancouver Sun, a prominent article in Vancouver's Georgia Straight and even coverage in the New York Times.

The Hudson's Bay Company played a major part in the transition ; by 1824 ' Vancouver's Island ' had become the usual designation in its correspondence for the island.

Whatcom County's northern border is the international boundary with the Canadian province of British Columbia ; adjoining the county on the north are four of metropolitan Vancouver's suburbs, Delta, White Rock, Surrey, Langley, and, in the central Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, with several shopping malls and other services in Bellingham and elsewhere in the county geared to cross-border shopping and recreation.

Automated driverless systems are not exclusively rubber-tyred ; many have since been built using conventional rail technology, such as London's Docklands Light Railway, the Copenhagen metro and Vancouver's SkyTrain, the Disneyland Resort Line which uses converted rolling stocks from non-driverless trains, as well as AirTrain JFK which is linking JFK Airport in New York City with local subway and commuter trains.

A portion of Vancouver's Skid Row, Gastown, has also been gentrified ; however it is in a difficult coexistence with the nearby impoverished Downtown Eastside along East Hastings Street.

Levy next competed briefly with Vancouver's All Star Wrestling ; he wrestled as a face there and got over with the fans, but ended up leaving due to promoter Al Tomko's preference to push his sons, Todd (" Rick Davis ") and Terry (" The Frog ") in All Star's top spots.

In North Vancouver, the SeaBus stops at the purpose-built Lonsdale Quay, which features an adjacent bus loop ; together they form a major transit hub for Vancouver's North Shore municipalities.

Vancouver's first pick was Knicks ' point guard Greg Anthony ; other top players were guards Byron Scott and Gerald Wilkins, and swingman Blue Edwards.

Vancouver's second goal in this game was a result of Testo's pass to Gjertsen who one-timed it to a charging Tony Donatelli ; Tony held on for an interminable two seconds before powering it home to the back of the net.

The Commission recommended changing Vancouver's at-large system of representation with individual wards ; however, this recommendation was defeated in a referendum held on October 16, 2004.

* Archibald Menzies, ( 1754 – 1842 ), British medic and biologist ; ship's doctor and naturalist on board George Vancouver's voyage to the North Pacific

Having reached an impasse, the two agreed to refer the points at issue back to their respective governments in Madrid and London ; Quadra arranged passage for Vancouver's envoy, William Robert Broughton, through Mexico.