Victoria Chinatown

Chinatown: A trip through Chinatown considered the oldest in Canada is like a walk through an open-air museum. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. Victoria Chinatown was designated a national historic site in 1995, primarily as an example of its preservation of a historic and culturally significant area despite urban pressures. With its huge lion-and-dragon sculptured welcome gate, its hidden alleyway once home to secret gambling and drug dens and its red sidewalk bricks, Victoria Chinatown is a living, breathing slice of history. It barely covers two blocks today, but the smell of roasting spices, sound of languages and cultures mixing on the street and colourful neon signs illuminating turn-of-the-century buildings fill the atmosphere with a freshness that never gets old. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.