Digital Archives

The Chinatown Storytelling Centre Digital Archives is Canada’s first archive dedicated to preserving the records of a Chinatown. Its growing digital collection brings together publications, photographs, artefacts and historical documents gathered from those who lived, worked and built community in Vancouver’s Chinatown, making these materials accessible to researchers, families and future generations.

The first major collection features Chinatown News, the influential English-language magazine published from 1953 to 1996. With hundreds of issues being digitized and made searchable online, the collection offers an insider perspective on the neighbourhood’s businesses, celebrations, civic life, struggles and triumphs—ensuring the voices of past generations continue to inform Chinatown’s future.