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East Vancouver Neighbourhoods

First Vancouver City Council Meeting after the fire - photograph by H. T. Devine
First Vancouver City Council Meeting after the fire - photograph by H. T. Devine (VPL # 508)

Related Guides

Main Street has long been considered the rough dividing line between the eastern and western part of Vancouver. East Vancouver neighbourhoods include Commercial Drive (aka Grandview-Woodland), Mount Pleasant, Champlain Heights, Collingwood, Punjabi Market, and Kensington.

Useful Websites

Documents changes in a 32 block area of Main Street since 2011.

Monitors what is happening in the Norquay area of East Vancouver focusing on recent planning and development issues.

Local historians and other interested people in the Grandview community of Vancouver work to identify, preserve and celebrate the built, natural and cultural heritage of Grandview and Commercial Drive.

A self-guided walking tour of historical buildings near Main and Broadway from the Mount Pleasant Business Improvement Area (MPBIA).

Titles in VPL's collection set in East Vancouver.

Recommended Titles

Cover Image for Along the No. 20 Line: Reminiscences of the Vancouver Waterfront

Along the No. 20 Line: Reminiscences of the Vancouver Waterfront

Rolf Knight

971.133 K71a1

2011

Using his own life story and interviews with resdients, the author provides a history of the communities along the East Vancouver waterfront.

Collingwood Pioneers: Memories of a Vancouver District

Barbara Nielsen

971.133 N66c

1991

Anecdotes, short biographies and pictures from the early European settlers in this neighbourhood.

Cover Image for The Drive: A Retail, Social and Political History of Commercial Drive, Vancouver, to 1956

The Drive: A Retail, Social and Political History of Commercial Drive, Vancouver, to 1956

Jak R. King

971.133 K53d

2011

Covers the vibrant history of this important East Vancouver street in the first part of the 20th century.

Cover Image for The Last Gang in Town: The Epic Story of the Police Vs the Clark Park Gang

The Last Gang in Town: The Epic Story of the Police Vs the Clark Park Gang

Aaron Chapman

364.106 C46L

2016

This engaging and thoroughly researched account of the history of the Clark Park Gang that wreaked havoc on Vancouver’s Eastside in the 1970s. Last Gang in town not only paints a clear picture of gang and police culture of the time, but is also an interesting look at East Vanocuver in the 1970s.

Voices in Stone: Vancouver's Mountain View Cemetery

Joan Tyldesley

929.5 M928t

2017

History and stories of Vancouver's only cemetery.

Cover Image for What Comes to Light: Stories of Still Creek Lost & Found

What Comes to Light: Stories of Still Creek Lost & Found

Rosen, Carmen Rosen

971.133 R81w

2017

Memories of life around this East Vancouver stream.

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Northwest History Index

This card index in Special Collection provides access to the Northwest History Collection, a heritage collection covering the early history and exploration of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest.

The collection includes:

  • magazine and newspaper articles
  • pamphlets
  • books
  • chapters in books
  • many other resources

As of August 1998, no new material has been added to the Northwest History Index. It is continued by the British Columbia Index.