Through the mid-1990s, Chinatown was a bustling, thriving neighborhood for Chinese immigrants and their descendants when approximately 300,000 lived in Vancouver. But it began to decline in favor of a new community in the City of Richmond called the Golden Village. Efforts to revitalize the old ethnic district have included the installation of the Millennium Gate on Ponder Street in 2002 and some wonderful wall murals by Arthur Cheng showing previous generations. See my World Murals galley for examples.
