Chinatown (Vancouver)

Chinatown, Vancouver
Millennium Gate on Pender Street in Chinatown
Traditional Chinese	溫哥華唐人街
Simplified Chinese	温哥华唐人街
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Wēngēhuá Tángrénjiē Wade–Giles Wen1ko1hua2 T'ang2 jen2 chieh1 IPA [wə́nkɤ́xwǎ tʰǎŋɻə̌ntɕjé] Yue: Cantonese Jyutping wan1 go1 waa4 tong4 jan4 gaai1
Alternative Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	溫哥華華埠
Simplified Chinese	温哥华华埠
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Wēngēhuá Huá-bù Wade–Giles Wen1ko1hua2 Hua2pu4 IPA [wə́nkɤ́xwǎ xwǎpû] Yue: Cantonese Jyutping wan1 go1 waa4 waa4 fau6

Chinatown in Vancouver, British Columbia is Canada's largest Chinatown. Centred on Pender Street, it is surrounded by Gastown and the Downtown Financial and Central Business Districts to the west, the Downtown Eastside to the north, the remnant of old Japantown to the northeast, and the residential neighbourhood of Strathcona to the east. The approximate street borders of Chinatown's official area as designated by the City of Vancouver are the alley between Pender Street and Hastings, Georgia, Gore, and Taylor Streets, although its unofficial boundaries extend well into the rest of the Downtown Eastside. Main, Pender, and Keefer Streets are the principal areas of commercial activity.

Chinatown remains a popular tourist attraction, and is one of the largest historic Chinatowns in North America. However, it went into decline as newer members of Vancouver's Cantonese Chinese community dispersed to other areas of the metropolis. It has been more recently overshadowed by the newer Chinese immigrant business district along No. 3 Road in the City of Richmond, which is a municipality of Greater Vancouver. Many affluent Hong Kong and Taiwanese immigrants have moved there since the late 1980s, coinciding with the increase of Chinese-ethnic retail and restaurants in that area. 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.