This research guide is also available in Chinese. / 本研究指南也有中文版。
By June Chow 周慕慈
About the Chinese Times
The Chinese Times newspaper was first published in 1907 as the Chinese English Daily News 華英日報. It was renamed the Chinese Daily News 大漢日報 in 1910, and by 1915 was operating under its final name of the Chinese Times 大漢公報. The newspaper also operated under the romanized name of Tai Hon Kong Bo Ltd. until 1939. The daily newspaper was published continuously until 1992 in Vancouver’s Chinatown, first from 443-445 Carrall Street, then at 1 East Pender Street from 1939 onwards. In addition to the local news, it covered international issues of interest among its overseas Chinese readers from an early period defined simultaneously by political upheaval and unrest in China and pervasive anti-Asian racism in Canada and in the diaspora.
The Chinese Times was founded by the Chinese Freemasons Society of Canada (Vancouver, BC) 中國洪門民治黨駐加國總支部. Known as Hongmen 洪門 in Chinese and historically as the Chee Kung Tong 致公堂, the Chinese Freemasons first formed as a political organization in mid-17th century imperial China. Its members were among the waves of Chinese migration to North America starting in the mid-1800s with the gold rush; its first Canadian branch was established in 1863 in Barkerville, British Columbia. In Canada, the Chinese Freemasons were among many mutual aid societies providing settlement services to Chinese immigrants; their publishing of the Chinese Times kept Chinese communities across the country informed for over eight decades.
Early in the newspaper’s founding, a significant political role was played in support of revolutionary Chinese leader, Dr. Sun Yat-sen. Sun was a member of the Chinese Freemasons; by the time of his visit to Vancouver in early 1911, the organization had become his strongest supporter in North America. The Chinese Times was lent as a powerful voice to help advance Sun’s vision for a democratic China among overseas Chinese communities and to mobilize their financial support for his revolution. The relationship between the Freemasons and Sun would later sour.
About the collection
The Chinese Times was published daily, except Sundays and holidays. This collection contains issues dating from 1914 to 1992. Totaling about 250,000 pages, it covers many important moments in the history of Vancouver’s Chinese community, from early immigration struggles to the establishment of a thriving home base near the city’s downtown. Through the 1960s, the newspaper provided extensive coverage of the community’s lobbying against urban renewal, freeway construction and firehall plans in Vancouver’s Chinatown. It also reported on significant historic events, including the Chinese Students Soccer Team’s Mainland Cup victory in 1933 and the Chinatown community’s celebration of Vancouver’s Golden Jubilee in 1936.
The Chinese Times was the longest-running newspaper in the largest Chinese community in Canada; it reflects the long history of Chinese immigration and settlement in Canada, including participation in the World Wars, struggle against anti-Chinese immigration policies, and hardships through the Depression and persistent racism.
A prevailing theme is the organizational power of the Chinese community to work together to persevere and overcome adversity.
Custodial history
The Chinese Freemasons Society of Canada donated an original print run of the Chinese Times to the University of British Columbia (UBC) Library in 1971 which was microfilmed and further preserved and rehoused in 2016.
By 2007, UBC Library had partnered with Simon Fraser University (SFU) Library to digitize the newspaper under the Multicultural Canada digitization project, and the digitized newspaper was subsequently hosted online by SFU Library as part of its digitized newspapers collections.
In 2025, its hosting was migrated to the Canadiana collection. Copyright of the Chinese Times remains with the Chinese Freemasons Society of Canada.
Search tips
Note from CRKN: Most newspaper pages have OCR (Optical Character Recognition) in Traditional Chinese. As of June 2025, approximately 1,144 newspaper issues from the years 1914, 1941, and 1980 do not have OCR data. OCR processing for these issues is underway and this page will be updated when it is complete.
- See basic search tips on the page Navigating the Collections. Please note that the OCR processing of Chinese characters is imprecise, despite efforts to improve its performance with this material.
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- To search within an individual newspaper issue, navigate to that issue and click the magnifying glass icon in the image viewer to open the search function.
- Use Traditional Chinese characters (not Simplified Chinese) to search the collection.
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Resources
- Chinese Freemasons celebrate 160 years of community and cultural support in Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/canada-chinese-freemasons-160-anniversary-1.6787635 - Preserving Vancouver’s Historical Chinese Newspaper
https://asian.library.ubc.ca/news/2017/05/18/preserving-chinese-times/ - Multicultural Canada: Background, partners, and contacts
https://www.lib.sfu.ca/about/initiatives/collaborations/multicultural-canada - Yao, Huilan. Jin dai Jianada Hua wen bao kan wen xue yan jiu : yi "Da Han gong bao" wei zhong xin. Dong fang chu ban zhong xin, 2021.
姚惠兰. 近代加拿大华文报刊文学研究 : 以《大汉公报》为中心. 東方出版中心, 2024. https://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=13632223 (Available in Chinese only) - Xu, Xueqing and Hua Laura Wu. “A Misconception: The Relationship between the Chinese-English Daily Newspaper and the Chinese Times.” BC Studies no. 209 (2021): 63-80. https://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.vi209
作者：June Chow 周慕慈
翻譯員：Susanna Ng
關於《大漢公報》
《大漢公報》（The Chinese Times）最初於1907年以《華英日報》（Chinese English Daily News）之名創刊。1910年更名為《大漢日報》（Chinese Daily News），到1915年正式稱為《大漢公報》（The Chinese Times）。直到 1939 年，該報還以大漢公報 (Tai Hon Kong Bo Ltd.) 的羅馬拼音名稱營運。這份日報在溫哥華唐人街連續出版至 1992 年，最初在卡羅街 (Carrall Street) 443-445 號出版，之後於 1939 年起在片打東街 (East Pender Street) 1 號出版。除了本地新聞外，它也報導華人讀者關注的國際議題。《大漢公報》的讀者身處於一個同時經歷中國內部政治動盪與不安，以及加拿大與海外社群普遍受反亞裔種族歧視的歷史時期。
《大漢公報》由中國洪門民治黨駐加國總支部（位於卑詩省溫哥華）創辦。洪門又稱致公堂，最早於17世紀中葉清朝時期在中國成立，為一政治組織。其成員於19世紀中葉開始隨著淘金熱潮遷移北美，洪門在加拿大的第一個分會於1863年在卑詩省巴克維爾成立。在加拿大，洪門與其他多個互助會一樣，為華人移民提供安頓服務。在出版《大漢公報》的逾80年間，洪門幫助全國各地的華人社群掌握資訊。
在創立初期，《大漢公報》曾在支持中國革命領袖孫中山的政治志業上，扮演過重要角色。孫中山是洪門成員，當他於1911年初訪問溫哥華時，洪門已成為他在北美最堅定的支持者。《大漢公報》成為協助推動孫中山民主中國理想的重要發聲平台，並動員華人社群捐款支持其革命。然而，孫中山與洪門之間的關係日後逐漸惡化。
關於本館藏
《大漢公報》每日出版，週日及節假日除外。本館藏包含1914年至1992年的報刊，總計約25萬頁，記錄了溫哥華華人社區歷史上的許多重要時刻，從早期移民的艱辛奮鬥到在市中心附近建立華埠這個繁榮社區的過程。自1960年代起，該報深入報導華人社群反對溫哥華華埠的都市更新計劃、高速公路興建及消防局設址等議題。報紙亦記錄多個歷史事件，包括1933年中華學生體育會足球隊奪得Mainland盃的勝利，以及1936年華埠社群慶祝溫哥華建市五十週年活動等。
《大漢公報》是加拿大發行時間最悠久的中文報紙，反映了華人在加國移民與定居的漫長歷程，包括參與兩次世界大戰、對抗排華移民政策，以及在經濟大蕭條與持續種族歧視下所經歷的艱難歲月。
華裔加人社區展現出的強大組織力與凝聚力，能夠同心協力、共度難關，是貫穿《大漢公報》的一個重要主題。
保存歷史
1971年，加拿大洪門民治黨將《大漢公報》的一套原始印刷版捐贈予卑詩大學（UBC）圖書館。該報紙隨後被製作成縮微膠片，並於2016年進一步保存並重新安置。
2007年，UBC圖書館與西門菲莎大學（SFU）圖書館合作，在多元文化加拿大數位化計劃下將該報紙數位化，數位版報紙隨後由SFU圖書館在線上保存，作為其數位化報紙館藏的一部分。
2025年，該數位報紙館藏的網上保存服務由 SFU 圖書館遷移至 Canadiana 平台。《大漢公報》的版權仍屬加拿大洪門民治黨所有。
搜尋提示
CRKN 的說明：大多數報紙的版面都有繁體中文的 OCR（光學字元辨識）。截至 2025 年 6 月，約有 1,144 份 1914 年、1941 年和 1980 年發行的報紙沒有 OCR 資料。這些問題的 OCR 處理正在進行中，完成後本頁面將會更新。
- 請參閱「館藏導航」頁面中的基本搜尋提示。請注意，儘管我們努力改進中文字元的OCR處理效果，但其準確度仍不夠精確。
- 前往完整館藏紀錄頁面，可一次瀏覽《大漢公報》的所有期數。使用「在此系列中搜尋」功能，即可限定於《大漢公報》內進行搜尋。
- 若欲在單一期報紙內搜尋，請進入該期內容，並點擊影像檢視器中的放大鏡圖示以開啟搜尋功能。
- 搜尋時請使用繁體中文（非簡體中文）。
- 僅以單字進行搜尋，有時可提升搜尋結果的準確度。
資料
有些資料只有英文版本。
- Chinese Freemasons celebrate 160 years of community and cultural support in Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/canada-chinese-freemasons-160-anniversary-1.6787635 - Preserving Vancouver’s Historical Chinese Newspaper
https://asian.library.ubc.ca/news/2017/05/18/preserving-chinese-times/ - Multicultural Canada: Background, partners, and contacts
https://www.lib.sfu.ca/about/initiatives/collaborations/multicultural-canada - 姚惠兰. 近代加拿大华文报刊文学研究 : 以《大汉公报》为中心. 東方出版中心, 2024. https://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=13632223
- Xu, Xueqing and Hua Laura Wu. “A Misconception: The Relationship between the Chinese-English Daily Newspaper and the Chinese Times.” BC Studies no. 209 (2021): 63-80. https://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.vi209