Reaching into the vault … this is one of the two gates welcoming people to Montreal’s Chinatown, as seen back in April 2012.
Chinatown gate
18 Saturday Jan 2014
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Dragon dance
21 Tuesday May 2013
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Rooms on Keefer Street
16 Thursday May 2013
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Pender. Keefer. Columbia. Main.
Those street names in Vancouver’s Chinatown were oddly familiar to me on my first visit in 2006, even though I’d never been there before.
In a sense, though, I’d already been, thanks to a couple of novels by Canadian author Wayson Choy.
His portrayal of Chinese immigrants’ lives in early part of the last century gave a taste of what the neighbourhood would have been like.
Things are not that way anymore, of course.
But the landmarks and the names are still there.
Ricky Leong 