Nanaimo not committing to heritage designation for Chinatown properties at this time

Nanaimo is making no commitments at this time to place the two last remaining buildings from the city’s third Chinatown in the municipality’s heritage register.
The Nanaimo Chinatown Heritage Foundation and some members of the community appeared as a delegation at the council meeting on Monday, Oct. 5, asking that 880 and 997 Hecate St., which were in the centre of Nanaimo’s last Chinatown before a fire in 1960 destroyed much of the buildings in the area, be placed in the regis