The first local people to greet Captain Vancouver when he entered Burrard Inlet lived on the North Shore. “We passed the situation,” Vancouver later wrote, “whence the Indians had first visited us the preceding day,...
From Prospect Point in Stanley Park one truly has a front-porch view of the mountains arising from the North Shore of Burrard Inlet. As the eagle flies it’s 20 kilometres from the summit plateau of Black Mountain in the...
Stretching from the Fraser River to the Strait of Georgia and the shores of Boundary Bay up to Scott Road, where it meets its urban neighbor Surrey, the Municipality of Delta possesses some of the richest farmland and most...
It was called the “Ambitious City” during its first few years. Property owners in North Vancouver’s lower Lonsdale area, who felt they had little in common with the farmers and loggers of Capilano and Lynn Valley,...
The name Coquitlam comes from the Salish word kwayhquitlum, referring to a small salmon, vital to the existence of the Coast Salish, the area’s first inhabitants. In 1863 Col. R.C. Moody’s Royal Engineers pushed through...
By the time of the Great Depression, Vancouver was solidly developed southwards as far as King Edward Avenue. East of the Canadian Pacific Railway’s land boundary at Ontario Street, houses interspersed with vacant lots...
The first modern effort by humans to alter the forested landscape that blanketed the districts of Collingwood and Renfrew was made in 1861. That year Colonel Richard Moody oversaw the building of a military trail along an...
Chinatowns in Greater Vancouver
Vancouver has the biggest Chinatown in Canada, boasting a history of more than a century. When the City of Vancouver was incorporated in 1886 a small Chinese settlement had already developed at Shanghai Alley near what is...
For many years in Pitt Meadows history, water was something to be feared. True, it was an early version of the freeway, with boat-traffic scuttling back and forth, and has been useful for Pitt residents through the years as...
If one thing could characterize downtown Vancouver, it would be its relationship to the water. Through every decade since the city’s inception the harbor has fuelled commercial activity, bearing witness to a city skyline...
Cedar Cottage is the district centred on Victoria Drive north of Kingsway, and Kensington is the district centred on Knight Street south of Kingsway. Cedar Cottage has always been proud to be the only neighborhood in...
Ask a clutch of coasties to name the Lower Mainland’s largest park, and most will come up with Stanley Park, at 400 hectares (1,000 acres) the equal of New York’s Central Park.
Much of Point Grey’s exclusivity today results from its location as the westernmost of Vancouver’s neighborhoods, bordering on its north side English Bay and on its west and southwest Pacific Spirit Park. Like its...
Port Coquitlam’s first inhabitants were Salish Indians who fished along the banks of the Fraser, Pitt and Coquitlam rivers. They hunted the forested hills, while the rivers and marshy lowlands provided them with waterfowl.
Building Statistics of Greater Vancouver
We use the word “opened” rather than “built”. Tall or large buildings take a couple of years to construct, so “opened” refers to when it was finished. Building height is from the street level to the top, not...
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