Vancouver (Vancouver, Coast & Mountains, V5Y 1V4)
1. Coal Harbour Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Takes its name from the discovery of veins of coal here in 1859. The veins ranged from four to fifteen inches in thickness.
2. Fairview Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Fairview - This district was named by L.A. Hamilton, the CPR land commissioner.
3. Kerrisdale Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Kerrisdale - In 1905, when the BC Electric Railway put in a tram stop at what is now 41st Avenue in Vancouver, R.H. Sperling, general manager of the company, called on the young Scottish couple,
4. Kitsilano Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Kitsilano - Derived from the name of a Squamish Indian who came from a village on the Squamish River (near its confluence with Cheakamus River) and settled in Stanley Park, just east of Prospect Point, about 1860.
5. Musqueam 2 Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Musqueam - This Indian village, now within the boundaries of Vancouver, marks the farthest point reached by Simon Fraser when he made his descent in 1808 of the river bearing his name.
6. Stanley Park National Historic Site of Canada / Brockton Point Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
After F. Brockton, senior engineer of 1-1M surveying ship Plumper. In 1859 Captain Richards of the Plumper reported to Governor Douglas that Brockton, exploring the area of today's Stanley Park, had found coal in nearby Coal Harbour.
7. Vancouver (City) / Burrard Inlet / Coward's Cove / Eburne / Elsje Point / English Bay / False Creek / Ferguson Point Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (604) 873-7011 - Leave a Public Review
Elsje Point - Pronounced 'El-shuh.' This point, at the end of the Vancouver Maritime Museum's breakwater, commemorates Mrs. W.M. Armstrong, née Elsje De Ridder (1918-81), a former chairwoman of the Museum's board of trustees.
8. West Point Grey Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
West Point Grey - Named by Captain Vancouver 'in compliment to my friend Captain George Grey of the Navy.' Captain Grey (1767-1828) commanded HMS Victory, Jervis's flagship at the Battle of St. Vincent in 1797.
  9. Arbutus Ridge Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
  10. Bridgeview Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
  11. Cassin Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
  12. Dunbar-Southlands Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
  13. Garden Village Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
  14. Grandview Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
  15. Grandview-Woodlands Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
  16. Hastings-Sunrise Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
  17. Kensington-Cedar Cottage Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
  18. Killarney Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
  19. Kitsilano 6 - Leave a Public Review
  20. Lieu historique national du Canada du Parc-Stanley - Leave a Public Review
  21. Marpole Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Marpole - Formerly Eburne, but renamed Marpole in 1916. After Richard Marpole (1850-1920), who, after early experience with English railways, came to Canada, where he became a CPR contractor in 1881.
  22. Oakridge Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
  23. Othello Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
  24. Renfrew-Collingwood Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
  25. Riley Park Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
  26. Shaughnessy Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
  27. South Cambie Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
  28. Sproatt Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
  29. Still Creek - Leave a Public Review
  30. Sunset Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
  31. Tamarisk Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
  32. University Hill Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
  33. Victoria-Fraserview Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
  34. West End Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
  35. West Heights Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
  36. Westridge Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
  37. Westview Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
  38. A:mai (Strathcona, 3km) - Leave a Public Review
  39. Ahmacinnit 3 (Strathcona, 3km) - Leave a Public Review
  40. Ahpukto 3 (Strathcona, 3km) - Leave a Public Review