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The city took most of his lot.
He built anyway.
After a Vancouver street widening left Chang Toy a strip of land roughly 1.8 metres deep, he bet he could still build on it. His two-storey building was finished in 1913.
The ground floor is only
about 1.5 metres deep.
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