Latin Americans are relatively recent arrivals to the region, but with steadily growing numbers they are becoming a significant group. The first big wave of Latin Americans to arrive were political refugees from Chile. They...
Since it was first settled around the turn of the 20th century, Kitsilano has been home to a very diverse cross-section of Vancouver’s population. Throughout its history, the homes of the wealthy have stood next to rental...
Comfortable, historic westside neighborhood stretching from Blenheim to Granville Street and Angus Drive, and from 41st Avenue to the North Arm of the Fraser River, Kerrisdale is among the most stable communities in Canada....
Jewish people have been on the Vancouver scene since the city’s earliest days. The first to take up residence was Polish born Louis Gold, who in 1872 arrived at Granville (Gastown) by tug via the U.S.A. The next year he...
The most visible Japanese in Vancouver today are the visitors who frequent the downtown hotels, such sites of interest as the Capilano Suspension Bridge and the numerous Japanese restaurants and shops on Robson and Alberni...
Vancouver’s Iranian population has tripled in the last five years. In certain areas of Lonsdale Quay in North Vancouver, shop signs in Farsi (Persian) are becoming the norm, and Persian restaurants, delicatessens and video...
A visitor to Vancouver’s east side in 1910 reported that a Piccola Italia, or Little Italy, had been established in the area around present-day Main Street. Italians in Vancouver then numbered up to a 1,000 or more. Today...
As many as 130,000 Indo-Canadians in the Lower Mainland form a veritable multicultural society within the Canadian mosaic, drawn from such far-flung lands as Fiji, Guyana, Trinidad, East Africa, South Africa, Malaysia, Hong...
HMS Discovery, commanded by Captain Vancouver on his great voyage to the Northwest Coast in 1791-95, was the sixth ship in the Royal Navy to bear the name, which dates from 1665. While under construction as a merchant ship...
As we hurtle uncertainly toward the vast gates of a new millennium, it is time to admit that Vancouver has, like any grand lady, been shamelessly lying about its age. In the year of this book’s birth, we admit to being 110...
Before World War II, communities developed in the Lower Mainland around historic crossroads and strategic spots for river navigation. Always, their existence depended on some kind of local industry--brick making at Clayburn,...
Coastal waters possess extraordinarily abundant and diverse marine life from microscopic planktonic forms through colorful invertebrates and fishes to giant kelp and whales. Contributing to this abundance is the deeply...
Granville Island, the jewel of False Creek, has sparked more passion, greed and love in its short history than perhaps any other chunk of real estate around. Today it is the crowning glory of the government of Canada,...
Vancouver, British Columbia is ranked among the most liveable cities in the world. The kind of political separation of central city and suburbs, so common in American metropolitan areas, is not part of this city’s reality....
The most widely accepted view is that Gastown--Vancouver in embryo--gets its name from its most famous resident, “Gassy Jack” Deighton. A competing, although weaker, claim is that a small pocket of natural gas in the...
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