Vancouver neighbourhoods

Kitsilano has held on to a surprising amount of its past.

Kitsilano has held on to a surprising amount of its past.

Gastown is Vancouver's oldest neighbourhood, and plenty of it isn't what it looks like from the street.

Gastown is Vancouver's oldest neighbourhood, and plenty of it isn't what it looks like from the street.

Here's the thing about Granville Island: it hasn't been an actual island since the 1950s, and it's still a working industrial area.

Here's the thing about Granville Island: it hasn't been an actual island since the 1950s, and it's still a working industrial area.

A lot of downtown Vancouver's best spots are tucked under or inside something else.

A lot of downtown Vancouver's best spots are tucked under or inside something else.

Mount Pleasant, Vancouver's first suburb, is full of places that used to be something else.

Mount Pleasant, Vancouver's first suburb, is full of places that used to be something else.

Commercial Drive started out as a skid road for dragging logs down to the harbour, and these days it's one of the best streets in East Vancouver for a long, unhurried date.

Commercial Drive started out as a skid road for dragging logs down to the harbour, and these days it's one of the best streets in East Vancouver for a long, unhurried date.

The West End has Canada's first rainbow crosswalk, fourteen three-metre bronze men laughing at nothing in particular, a Davie Street bakery open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and a museum you enter by ringing an...

The West End has Canada's first rainbow crosswalk, fourteen three-metre bronze men laughing at nothing in particular, a Davie Street bakery open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and a museum you enter by ringing an...

Chinatown is one of the oldest neighbourhoods in Vancouver and, after dark, one of its best for hidden bars.

Chinatown is one of the oldest neighbourhoods in Vancouver and, after dark, one of its best for hidden bars.

Strathcona's own business association says this is where you can get your brake pads and rotors replaced, commission an artwork, learn to use a 3D printer or produce an album.

Strathcona's own business association says this is where you can get your brake pads and rotors replaced, commission an artwork, learn to use a 3D printer or produce an album.

Riley Park has a flower garden sunk into a former basalt quarry, a glass dome of free-flying parrots on what our listings call the city's highest point, and curling ice that our listing says was used at the 2010 Olympic Games,...

Riley Park has a flower garden sunk into a former basalt quarry, a glass dome of free-flying parrots on what our listings call the city's highest point, and curling ice that our listing says was used at the 2010 Olympic Games,...

Point Grey has a museum that moved into an Arthur Erickson building on May 30, 1976, a Japanese garden that prompted a visiting Emperor Akihito to remark 'I am in Japan', and Canada's largest blue whale skeleton, one of only...

Point Grey has a museum that moved into an Arthur Erickson building on May 30, 1976, a Japanese garden that prompted a visiting Emperor Akihito to remark 'I am in Japan', and Canada's largest blue whale skeleton, one of only...