Landmark Building
BOW ON TONG BUILDING, 1919
316 – 2nd Avenue South, Lethbridge
Built in 1919
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The Bow On Tong or Good Health Medicine store is located east of Chinatown’s Chi Kong Tong freemasons building. The store was one that had been established earlier, in Vancouver, and then moved to Lethbridge. The building was constructed in 1919 and opened as a Chinese pharmacy or herbalist shop in 1926 by Way Leong (1879-1967). His family continues to own the building and if you go inside, you will find herb and drug containers with their Chinese characters on the shelves. In fact, the interior of the building looks much as it did fifty years ago.
The Landmark Buildings and Places Database draws on the series of walking and/or driving tour booklets produced by Alberta Culture (now Alberta Culture and Community Spirit). The Heritage Community Foundation gratefully acknowledges the support of the Ministry through permission to reprint these materials online. Extracted from Lethbridge Historical Walking Tour. Alberta Community Development and the Sir Alexander Galt Museum & Archives, n.d., with permission from Alberta Culture and Community Spirit. Visit the Alberta Culture and Community Spirit for more information.