This was the original Aberdeen Centre mall in Richmond, up until 2002 (PHOTOS)
The original mall was conceived in the late 1980s during a period of accelerating mass exodus of Hong Kong citizens avoiding the British colony’s inevitable Mainland Chinese rule. Just years earlier in 1984, the United Kingdom signed an agreement that formalized a timeline for the transfer of the sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China, marked by the scheduled handover on July 1, 1997. This agreement, of course, had a profound impact on the future of Metro Vancouver, which quickly became one of the preferred urban centres where Hong Kongers chose to immigrate. The larg...
Source: dailyhive.com