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The West End is a neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, located between the Coal Harbour neighbourhood and the financial and central business districts of Downtown Vancouver to the east, Stanley Park to the northwest, the English Bay to the west, and Kitsilano to the southwest across the False Creek opening.
Vancouver-West End is a provincial electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, established by the Electoral Districts Act, 2008. It was contested for the first time in the 2009 election. Prior to 2009, the riding was part of Vancouver-Burrard. This district takes in Stanley Park and Vancouver's densely populated West End neighbourhood.
Today, Vancouver's art-deco Marine Building marks the site of the Greenhorns’ log cabin. [9] At 22 stories and a height of 341 feet, the building overlooks the terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The West End of Vancouver neighbours Stanley Park and the areas of Yaletown, Coal Harbour and the downtown financial and central business ...
The Vancouver Club: 915 West Hastings 1912–1914 Sharp & Thompson, architects Alexandra Park Haywood Bandstand: 1755 Beach Avenue The Alexandra Park Bandstand is situated in a triangular-shaped park bordered by Beach Avenue, Burnaby Street and Bidwell Street in Vancouver's West End, overlooking English Bay. 1915 First Baptist Church: 969 ...
The City of Vancouver uses neighbourhood boundaries to break up the city's geographic area for delivering services and resources. The 22 official neighbourhoods are as follows: [1] Arbutus Ridge - Located in the middle of Vancouver's west side, characterized by tree-lined streets and heritage homes with large lot sizes.
In the search for his successor, a profile was prepared describing how the character of the West End of Vancouver [10] had changed significantly since the parish had been established. [11] The situation was summarised thus: "In the 1950s, developers began pulling down the old family houses of the West End to make room for apartment buildings.
In 1954 it opened the first cocktail bar in Vancouver. Until 1958 the Sylvia Hotel was the tallest building in the West End – a well-known landmark, its brick and terracotta extension softened by the Boston Ivy that now completely covers the Gilford Street side of the hotel. Until superseded by the West-End building boom of the 1960s, the ...
Vancouver's characteristic approach to urban planning originated in the late 1950s, when city planners began to encourage the building of high-rise residential towers in Vancouver's West End, [111] subject to strict requirements for setbacks and open space to protect sight lines and preserve green space. The success of these dense but livable ...