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Canada's Oldest Chinatown
We had a couple of hours to spare before our bus ride to the ferry terminal that would take us back to Vancouver, so we headed to Chinatown. Victoria’s Chinatown is the oldest in Canada, and the second oldest in North America after San Francisco. The reason for this is its strategic location. The city was once the major entry port for Asian immigration to British North America, and then later, Canada. In the mid-19th century, there was an influx of miners from California, m

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