Kuomintang Building
296 East Pender Street
Clubs and associations in Chinatown mirrored changes in China's
politics. The Kuomintang (KMT, or Chinese Nationalist League) built
this as its western Canadian headquarters. The KMT supported Dr.
Sun Yat-Sen, the 1911 rebellion, and the rebel government in southern
China. During World War I, the northern Chinese Manchu Government
persuaded its ally, Canada, to ban the KMT. The ban was lifted in
1919 and this building was constructed the following year to the
design prepared by W.E. Sproat.
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