Shanghai Alley
After 1904, Chinese businesses, responding to pressure from white
merchants on Hastings Street, began moving south of Pender Street
along Carrall Street. Many of the new buildings had double fronts,
one side opening onto Carrall Street and the other onto Shanghai
Alley behind. Eventually restaurants, stores, a theatre and several
tenements crowded the narrow alley. A similar alley, Canton Alley,
ran parallel one block west. Canton Alley and much of Shanghai Alley
were demolished in the 1940s when non-Chinese industries began squeezing
into the older, western edge of Chinatown. A portion of Shanghai
Alley has been re-instituted as part of a housing and commercial
development on this site.
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