[1] The newspaper was originally based at 125 West Pender Street,[2] just around the corner from The Vancouver Daily Province, its rival at the time.

[5] The Sun emerged as the city's leading newspaper after The Vancouver Daily Province experienced a lengthy labour dispute from 1946 to 1949.

[1] In 1958, the Vancouver 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.

In 1992, the newspaper was taken over by Conrad Black's Hollinger Inc.[1] The newspaper's photography department became the first in the world to fully switch over to digital photography following the 1994 release of the Kodak DCS 400 series, which used a Nikon F90 body; the camera was developed by Kodak in collaboration with The Associated Press and each unit cost $16,950.

In December 2011, after much research on the demographics of the greater Vancouver area, the newspaper launched a Chinese-language version Taiyangbao[8] with original Chinese language content.

[9] In January 2015, the Kennedy Heights printing press operation was shut down, resulting in 220 workers losing their jobs.

While publishing under Hollinger, the Sun's editorials, op-ed articles, and guest columns were unambiguously critical of the federal Liberal government.