Seafair (Vancouver, Coast & Mountains)
1. Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site of Canada / Georgia Strait (Steveston, 2km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
This is the euphonious 'Gran Canalde Nuestra Senora del Rosario la Marinera' of the Spanish explorers. Captain Vancouver tells of his naming of it:
2. Bridgeport (Richmond, 2km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
At the end of 1889, two bridges linked Richmond with the mainland, and locals hoped that a port would develop here.
  3. Brighouse (Richmond, 2km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
After Sam Brighouse, born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, in 1836. Brighouse and his cousin John Morton came to British Columbia in 1862 and spent a brief time in the Cariboo goldfields.
  4. Broadmoor (Richmond, 2km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  5. Burkeville (Richmond, 2km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  6. Elgin (Richmond, 2km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  7. Kelvin (Richmond, 2km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  8. McGuire (Richmond, 2km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  9. Meadowbrook (Richmond, 2km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
10. Richmond (City) / Deas Island / Iona Island / Lulu Island / Sturgeon Bank / Tilbury Island / Woodwards Landing (Richmond, 2km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (604) 276-4000 - Leave a Public Review
Deas Island - After John Sullivan Deas, a mulatto tinsmith who was foreman at a cannery here in the 1870s. He originally came to British Columbia as a member of the Royal Engineers.
  11. Sea Island 3 (Richmond, 2km) - Leave a Public Review
  12. Seafair (Richmond, 2km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  13. Southarm (Richmond, 2km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
14. Steveston - Garry Point (Richmond, 2km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Garry Point - After Nicholas Garry, Deputy Governor of the I-IBC 1822-35. Named by Captain Aernilius Simpson of the HBC when he brought the schooner Cadboro into the mouth of the Fraser in 1827, the first vessel to enter the river.
  15. Thompson (Richmond, 2km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  16. Tucks (Richmond, 2km) - Leave a Public Review
  17. Woodwards Landing (Richmond, 2km) - Leave a Public Review
  18. Arbutus Ridge (Vancouver, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  19. Bridgeview (Vancouver, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  20. Cassin (Vancouver, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
21. Coal Harbour (Vancouver, 13km) 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.
  22. Dunbar-Southlands (Vancouver, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
23. Fairview (Vancouver, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Fairview - This district was named by L.A. Hamilton, the CPR land commissioner.
  24. Garden Village (Vancouver, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  25. Grandview (Vancouver, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
26. Grandview-Woodlands (Vancouver, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  27. Hastings-Sunrise (Vancouver, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  28. Kensington-Cedar Cottage (Vancouver, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
29. Kerrisdale (Vancouver, 13km) 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,
  30. Killarney (Vancouver, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
31. Kitsilano (Vancouver, 13km) 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.
  32. Kitsilano 6 (Vancouver, 13km) - Leave a Public Review
  33. Lieu historique national du Canada du Parc-Stanley (Vancouver, 13km) - Leave a Public Review
  34. Marpole (Vancouver, 13km) 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.
35. Musqueam 2 (Vancouver, 13km) 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.
  36. Oakridge (Vancouver, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  37. Othello (Vancouver, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  38. Renfrew-Collingwood (Vancouver, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  39. Riley Park (Vancouver, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  40. Shaughnessy (Vancouver, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review