Canada’s Emerging Hong Kong

In China’a city of entrepreneurs, nobody really believed the government’s line “One country, two systems.” So when the mainland scheduled its takeover of the British colony in 1997, the locals began looking for a new place to trade. Over the generation since, a large number of them chose western Canada’s largest city as a new home.

Before the loss of Hong Kong, Vancouver was the most British of Canadian cities. Here we see the first years of the transformation.