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Sam Kee Building

This two-storey building is the world's narrowest commercial building according to the Guinness Book of World Records, with a width of just 4'11" (1.5 m) at its base. Its slim size is due to the city expropriating most of the lot to widen the street. The owner went ahead and built anyway, and businesses have been operating out of its confines since 1913. If you do take a look, the perspective is better from the other (north) side of Pender.

Address
8 W Pender St

Listing from Wikivoyage: Vancouver/Gastown-Chinatown, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Updated 28 Sept 2026. Something wrong? Tell us.