Chinese Times Building
1 East Pender Street
The Wing Sang Company commissioned a major Vancouver architect
to design this building in 1902. W.T. Whiteway, who had practiced
in California, incorporated seven bay windows and a "cheater
storey" or mezzanine above the first floor. Cheater storeys
were a common way of avoiding tax assessments on floor space. The
Chinese Times newspaper has been published in Chinatown since 1914,
and in this building between 1939 and 1994, when it ceased operation
due to the introduction of Hong Kong-based daily newspapers Ming
Pao and Sing Tao in Vancouver.
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