The Chinese Cultural Centre is a Chinese community centre, museum, and municipal archives facility located in Vancouver Chinatown. It was founded in 1973 and opened to the public in 1980.[1][2] It houses the Chinese Canadian Military Museum Society on the second floor.
 Façade of the East Wing of the Chinese Cultural Centre, December 2016. | |
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| Established | 1973 |
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| Location | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Type | Cultural centre |
| Website | cccvan.com |
In April 2020, the facility was vandalized with graffiti that is linked to the COVID-19 pandemic in British Columbia.[3]
References
edit- ^ Rock 2005, pp. 2, 9.
- ^ Mitchell 1998, p. 739.
- ^ "Vancouver's Chinese Cultural Centre defaced with 'hateful' graffiti: police". CBC News. May 1, 2020.
Sources
edit- Mitchell, Katharyne (August 1998). "Reworking Democracy: Contemporary Immigration and Community Politics in Vancouver's Chinatown". Political Geography. 17 (6): 729–750. doi:10.1016/S0962-6298(97)00070-X.
- Rock, Julianne Josephine (2005). We Are Chinese Canadian: The Response of Vancouver's Chinese Community to Hong Kong Immigrants, 1980–1997 (MA thesis). Simon Fraser University.