The Chinese Benevolent Association of Vancouver (traditional Chinese: 加拿大溫哥華中華會館; simplified Chinese: 加拿大温哥华中华会馆; pinyin: Jiānádà Wēngēhuá Zhōnghuá Huìguǎn; Cantonese Yale: Gāanàahdaai Wāngōwàh Jūngwàah Wuigún) is a Chinese Canadian organization headquartered in Vancouver. As of 2006 it has 2,000 members and serves as a federation of various Vancouver-based Chinese organizations. Douglas Aitken of The Georgia Straight stated that the CBA was the most important organization operating in the Vancouver Chinatown in the first half of the 20th century. The Vancouver Sun wrote "They were, for all intents and purposes, the government of Chinatown."