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The Narrowest Street in Canada - FAN TAN ALLEY Victoria BC
Welcome to Fan Tan Alley—the narrowest street in the country and a side door to Canada’s oldest Chinatown!
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Fan Tan Alley is an alley in Victoria, British Columbia's Chinatown. It runs south from Fisgard Avenue to Pandora Avenue in the block between Government Street and Store Street. Named after the Chinese gambling game Fan-Tan, the alley was originally a gambling district with restaurants, shops, and opium dens. Today it is a tourist destination with many small shops including a barber shop, art gallery, Chinese cafe, apartments and offices. It is the narrowest street in Canada. At its narrowest point it is only 0.9 metres (35 inches) wide. It was designated as a heritage property by the local government in 2001
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Fan Tan Alley! (LONG Version) Victoria, BC, Canada! October 09, 2017
The famous Fan Tan Alley located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada! The narrowest commercial alley in North America! Less than 3 feet wide at certain spots. Lots of shops and you can order noodles to go from Fan Tan Cafe at their back door! Enjoy!
FAN TAN ALLEY, VICTORIA B.C. Most Haunted Cities
Walk thru using GO-PRO thru famous haunted alley. Story is Chinese ghost chase's people with meat cleaver and disappears.
Fan Tan Alley! Victoria BC Canada! Sept. 14, 2017
The famous Fan Tan Alley located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada! The narrowest commercial alley in North America! Less than 3 feet wide at certain spots. Lots of shops and you can order noodles to go from Fan Tan Cafe at their back door! Enjoy!
Fan Tan Alley Victoria Canada
Chinatown and A Walk Through Fan Tan Alley in Victoria, B C
The Chinatown in Victoria, British Columbia is the oldest Chinatown in Canada and the second oldest in North America after San Francisco's.
And Fan Tan Alley is its biggest tourist attraction !
Just 0.9m wide (about 4 feet) at the narrowest point, it is filled with boutiques and shops selling clothes, jewelry, music, shoes and other items to locals and tourists. But Fan Tan Alley wasn’t always the kind of place where you would want go browsing for trinkets.
The alley used to be a popular place for a variety of less-than-legal activities, with gambling and opium dens common in its early days.
Nowadays, Fan Tan Alley draws visitors for a variety of reasons, as it has been featured in films (such as 1990’s Bird on a Wire) and children’s books, is a national record holder, is a vibrant shopping area and is a part of Victoria’s popular Chinatown area.
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VICTORIA DAY 3: FAN TAN ALLEY & BEAVER TAILS [Doug&Marie's Life S5E13]
VICTORIA DAY 3: FAN TAN ALLEY & BEAVER TAILS [Doug&Marie's Life S5E13]
For our pt 3 adventure, we explore downtown Victoria and China town.
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Fan Tan Alley (the narrowest street in Canada) located in Victoria, BC
Fan Tan Ally is the narrowest street in Canada. It is located in the oldest China Town in Canada at Victoria, BC. Named after a Chinese gambling game Fan Tan, the alley originally used as gambling district with restaurant, shops, and opium dens. Today, you will find some amazing shops and tourists in this alley. After visiting this street, i wonder why they call it a street?!
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Victoria: Chinatown and Fan Tan Alley
The Chinatown in Victoria, British Columbia is the oldest Chinatown in Canada and the second oldest in North America after San Francisco's. Victoria's Chinatown had its beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century in the mass influx of miners from California to what is now British Columbia in 1858. It remains an active place and continues to be popular with residents and visitors, many of whom are Chinese-Canadians. Victoria's Chinatown is now surrounded by cultural, entertainment venues as well as being a venue itself. Chinatown is now conveniently just minutes away from other sites of interests such as the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre, Bay Centre, Empress Hotel, Market Square, and others.
The Royal BC Museum stated that it was known for its maze of alleyways and courtyards, containing everything from theatres and restaurants to gambling dens.
The discovery of gold in the Fraser Canyon in 1858 led to a sudden surge in immigration to British Columbia from California, about one third of which was Chinese. Within a year, immigration to the colony directly from China began as news spread of the gold find, but the gold rush was only one reason many Chinese citizens immigrated. Famine, drought or war in their homeland also encouraged the voyage across the Pacific Ocean to Victoria (on the Crown Colony of Vancouver Island en route to the Fraser Canyon, and later to Barkerville and the mainland's many other goldfields). The majority of the population was from South China, in Guangdong province. Later, the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway would continue to bring Chinese workers. It was mostly men who immigrated, but if they could make enough money, they would send for their family.
The Gate of Harmonious Interest was erected in the 1980s, as a part of a larger revitalization effort.
Initially a collection of crude wooden huts, Victoria's Chinatown rapidly evolved into a dense neighbourhood of businesses, theatres, schools, churches, temples and a hospital. It did gain a dark, seedy reputation however, because of opium factories, gambling dens and brothels. Chinatown grew steadily over the years until its peak in 1911, at which time it occupied an area of about six city blocks in the north end of downtown Victoria. This area included two blocks of Herald Street, two blocks of Fisgard Street, and two blocks of old Cormorant Street. The block between Store Street and Government Street has since been renamed Pandora Street, and the block between Government Street and Douglas Street is now part of Centennial Square.
In 1911, Victoria's Chinatown housed 3,158 people, almost more than the entire population of downtown Victoria (including Chinatown and Harris Green) in 2001. From the late nineteenth century to the first decade of the twentieth century, it was the largest Chinese settlement in Canada.
Victoria's Chinatown suffered a period of decline between the 1920s and the 1970s, shrinking dramatically both in size and in population. In the 1980s, significant revitalization efforts were undertaken, most notably the construction of the Gate of Harmonious Interest on Fisgard Street (at Government Street). Ongoing revitalization over the years has included the introduction of coffee shops, cafes, studios, and workshops, as well as a small condominium development in Dragon Alley.
Victoria's revitalized Chinatown is a popular area for tourists as well as for the artistic community. The focus is the 500–600 block of Fisgard Street, including famously narrow Fan Tan Alley, the old Chinese School and a small selection of historic buildings and Chinese businesses. Many historic buildings have been well preserved in Chinatown and also in the larger area it once occupied along Government Street, Herald Street, Store Street, and Pandora Avenue. The modern Chinatown continues to be a key component of Downtown Victoria with many tourist attractions, hotels, bars, restaurants, theatres, services, and shopping areas nearby. The district was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1995. It was considered as potential addition to Canada's Tentative List of nominations to become a World Heritage Site, but has yet to be nominated.
Some of the tourist attractions of Chinatown are the previously mentioned Fan Tan Alley (originally a private walkway, now home to offices and retail shops), and its ornate gate, The Gate of Harmonious Interest, which was built in Suzhou, one of Victoria's sister cities.
Many of Chinatown's most historical and important places are out of public view, like the Tam Kung Buddhist Temple, which is the oldest of its kind in Canada.
FAN TAN ALLEY (Victoria BC) Apparently the *narrowest alley in Canada*
Dans le Chinatown de Victoria BC qui date de 1885. Fan Tan Alley est-elle vraiment plus étroite que la Ruelle Sous-le-Cap à Québec ?
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FAN TAN ALLEY in China Town - Canada's Narrowest Street in Victoria BC
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Fan Tan Alley is an alley in Victoria, British Columbia's Chinatown. It runs south from Fisgard Avenue to Pandora Avenue in the block between Government Street and Store Street. Named after the Chinese gambling game Fan-Tan, the alley was originally a gambling district with restaurants, shops, and opium dens. Today it is a tourist destination with many small shops including a barber shop, art gallery, Chinese cafe, apartments and offices. It is the narrowest street in Canada. At its narrowest point it is only 0.9 metres (35 inches) wide. It was designated as a heritage property by the local government in 2001
Night View of Fan Tan Alley, Chinatown, Victoria, BC
Fan Tan Alley is an alley in Victoria, British Columbia's Chinatown. It runs south from Fisgard Avenue to Pandora Avenue in the block between Government Street and Store Street. Named after the Chinese gambling game Fan-Tan, the alley was originally a gambling district with restaurants, shops, and opium dens.
The Alley is very narrow with little shops on both sides. Chinatown is very small in Victoria, but there are some interesting little spaces. I discovered Saltspring Soap Works there. Previously, only seen their soaps in Ganges.
A cute narrow laneway has beautiful red Chinese lanterns line the top along this small quaint laneway of picturesque boutique shops.
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Fan Tan Alley - Canada's Most Narrow Merchant Street
A cute narrow laneway in Canada’s oldest Chinatown. Beautiful red Chinese lanterns line the top along this small quaint laneway of picturesque boutique shops.
The Alley is very narrow with little shops on both sides.World famous street, appearing in more movies than one can remember - so narrow two people have a hard time passing to get into the middle.
Fan Tan Ally is the narrowest street in Canada. It is located in the oldest China Town in Canada at Victoria, BC. Named after a Chinese gambling game Fan Tan, the alley originally used as gambling district with restaurant, shops, and opium dens. Today, you will find some amazing shops and tourists in this alley.
The Alley is very narrow with little shops on both sides. Chinatown is very small in Victoria, but there are some interesting little spaces. I discovered Saltspring Soap Works there. Previously, only seen their soaps in Ganges.
A cute narrow laneway has beautiful red Chinese lanterns line the top along this small quaint laneway of picturesque boutique shops.
Fan Tan Street in Victoria, Canada
Walk through Canada's narrowest street in Chinatown in Victoria, Canada.
Halloween in Victoria, B.C. - Fan Tan Alley
As the oldest city in the Pacific Northwest, Victoria has a torrid history that comes to life during the month of October. The brilliant colours of fall hint at the plethora of vibrant Halloween-inspired activities on offer in British Columbia's most haunted city.
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Vancouver Island 2017 (Pt. 4) - Victoria's Chinatown and Fan Tan Alley
September 20, 2017 - Just outside the downtown core of Victoria and its nearby historic bastion district is the oldest chinatown in Canada.
Centred on the block of Fisgard Street from Government Street to Store Street, Chinatown is a vibrant part of the city. It's a sleepy late-summer Wednesday afternoon right now, but trust me, on the weekends, it's quite the hub of activity.
Victoria's Chinatown is also home to Fan Tan Alley, the thinnest street in Canada - only 35 inches wide at its narrowest point.
The narrowest street in Canada, Fan Tan Alley, Victoria Chinatown
Victoria Chinatown
June 13, 2017
fan tan alley's ghost in the narrow alley way ever
a ghost thought hanging himself would take him out of his nightmare but instead he is trapped here reacting the night he murdered a girl cause of a broken heart.
Fan Tan Alley in Victoria Chinatown
Fan Tan Alley is the world's narrowest street. Victoria BC Canada Vancouver Island 2008/11/22