Yaletown & False Creek North
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Vancouver’s former meat-packing and warehouse district, Yaletown has long been converted into an area of apartment lofts, nightclubs, restaurants, high-end furniture shops and fledgling multimedia biz.
It’s a relativley tiny area and the main streets of intrest are Mainland, Hamilton and Davie. For visitors, it features some interesting cafes and patios, some high-end shops, and a kind of gritty urban feel that you won’t find elsewhere in Vancouver.
This old time authenticity provides an essential anchor to the bevy of towers that have risen in the past 10 years on Pacific Boulevard along the north end of False Creek.
Officially called False Creek North, the area is more often referred to as the “Concorde Lands” after the developer or called the “Expo Lands” after the world’s fair held in 1986.
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3 opinions for Yaletown & False Creek North
Jenny
Nov 13, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Why do they call it False Creek?
KennyG
Nov 13, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Jenny,
Excellent question. I will get back to you with the answer. I suspect it’s called False Creek, because really it is part of the Ocean vice an actual creek as one would think of it. But I will see if I can find the answer for you! :)
KennyG
Nov 13, 2008 at 10:06 pm
False Creek got its name from George Henry Richards around 1856.
George Henry Richards was doing a hydorgraphic survey of the area, and False Creek was the name he gave it during his survey.
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