It's my understanding that it's primarily related to historical (past 40 years) immigration patterns to Vancouver. And the size of Mandarin and Cantonese speaki

It's my understanding that it's primarily related to historical (past 40 years) immigration patterns to Vancouver. And the size of Mandarin and Cantonese speaking communities in the metro Vancouver area, which is of a similarly large amount of people as in Toronto. Earlier immigration to the lower mainland of BC was mostly Cantonese speaking folks from the region of Hong Kong, since about 2000 it's been much more "new money" Mandarin and more northern regions of China. Not just people looking for a safe place to park money but also enough members of their first language and ethnic community that there's a good selection of grocery stores, restaurants, retail shops, community events/entertainment. That's my theory, at least. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Canadians_in_Greater_Vancouver https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Canadians_in_Greater_V...