Cheng Wing Yeong Tong Society

Cheng Wing Yeong Tong Society Building was built in 1911 for Lang Kwan.

This three-storey brick structure incorporates a store at ground level with accommodation above and a Tong meeting hall on the third floor.

The building illustrates renovations and additions made to a decade-old existing structure during Chinatown’s boom years of the 1920s, which added space to accommodate a Tong and to adapt the building to the newly dominant ‘Chinatown style’ of architecture.

The main architects were Campbell and Dawson. Architectural drawings, dated 1915, are signed by W.H. Chow, Vancouver’s first Chinese-Canadian architect, whose work is prolific in Chinatown. The third storey extension of 1925-26 is the work of architect Henry Holdsby Simmonds.

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