History
When the Sun began operation, it was published at 125 West Pender Street, just around the corner from The Province, its rival at the time.
In 1924, the Sun bought the Vancouver World newspaper, which had been in financial difficulty for some time.
In March 1937, a fire destroyed the Sun's business and editorial offices. The only casualty was the janitor, who suffered minor burns and smoke inhalation. The Sun promptly moved across the street into the World Building, where the World had been published. The building was accordingly renamed the Sun Tower.
In 1958, the Sun and the Province joined to create the Pacific Press in response to the rising costs of producing newspapers. First the papers merged their mechanical and financial departments, then they both moved into the Pacific Press Building on December 27, 1965.
The paper moved to Granville Square in 1997.
According to a 2010 NADbank survey, the Sun's daily Monday-to-Friday readership was 453,500, making it British Columbia's second most read newspaper, after The Province. Its six-day average circulation was 171,515 copies a day as of September 30, 2010.
In May 2009, the newspaper laid off long-time editorial cartoonist Roy Peterson who had been drawing for the paper since 1962.
In October 2011, Patricia Graham, the editor in chief, was appointed vice-president, Digital for Pacific Newspaper Group.
The Vancouver Sun website www.vancouversun.com has more than 30 million page views monthly.
In December 2011, after much research on the demographics of the greater Vancouver area, the newspaper launched a Chinese language version Taiyangbao with original Chinese language content. According to an article broadcast on China Now on China Radio International (December 2011), the key to success was not necessarily to "translate" its English language version into Chinese.
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