The Tam Kung temple is among 12 sites across the country vying for online support in the National Trust’s annual Canada’s ...

The only other B.C. site among the 12 up for voting, historic O’Keefe Ranch in Vernon, finished first, scoring $50,000.

A few wealthy Chinese merchants from San Francisco came to Victoria by boat in June 1858 ... during the 1870s, was British Columbia's third largest export item to the United States after coal and furs ...

which divided Chinatown from Victoria’s downtown core to the south. The Hakka belong to a distinct Chinese cultural and linguistic group, and revered Tam Kung, a sea deity, because he was ...

The historic Tam Kung Temple in Victoria’s Chinatown has won second place in the national Next Great Save competition, netting it $10,000 to help maintain the recently appointed National Historic Site ...