Vancouver Centennial Plaque #70 – Sam Kee Building

Address:           8 W Pender Street

Status:             Found, but gone (last seen on May 2012 StreetView)

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“SAM KEE BUILDING

Ripley recognized this building, constructed in 1913, as the narrowest in the world. Responding to a wager, Chang Toy, owner of the Sam Kee Company, used bay windows and public baths under the sidewalk to maximize development on a site dramatically diminished by city road expropriation.”

Credit: Vancouver Centennial Commission, Historic Plaque Program – list and documentation plaques 50-100 (June 18, 1986). Courtesy of Vancouver Archives

Photo credit: Vancouver Archives (AM54-S4- Bu N90)