Sam Kee Co

SAM KEE COMPANY was established in CHINATOWN in VANCOUVER by Chang Toy, an entrepreneur, in about 1888. The company engaged in a variety of commercial activities, including labour contracting, a coastal HERRING saltery and import-export. In 1913, after the city expropriated his land on Pender St, Chang Toy was left with a strip of property 1.8 m wide. Defiantly, he built the world's narrowest commercial building on the site. The Sam Kee Building, which was restored in the 1980s and is the only...

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