East Vancouver Neighbourhoods
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First Vancouver City Council Meeting after the fire - photograph by H. T. Devine (VPL # 508)
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.
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Call Number
971.133 K71a1
Publication Year
2011
Using his own life story and interviews with resdients, the author provides a history of the communities along the East Vancouver waterfront.
Call Number
971.133 N66c
Publication Year
1991
Anecdotes, short biographies and pictures from the early European settlers in this neighbourhood.
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Call Number
971.133 K53d
Publication Year
2011
Covers the vibrant history of this important East Vancouver street in the first part of the 20th century.
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Call Number
364.106 C46L
Publication Year
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.
Call Number
929.5 M928t
Publication Year
2017
History and stories of Vancouver's only cemetery.
Call Number
971.133 R81w
Publication Year
2017
Memories of life around this East Vancouver stream.
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.