Fairview is a neighbourhood on the west side of the city of
Vancouver
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,
British Columbia
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,
Canada
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. It runs from
False Creek
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in the north to 16th Avenue in the south, and from
Burrard Street
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in the west to
Cambie Street
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in the east.
Central
Broadway
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is an important commercial and employment centre focused around
Vancouver General Hospital
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and other health-related institutions, including the
BC Cancer Agency
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Facilities
BC Cancer's first cancer treatment centre (then known as the British Columbia Cancer Institute) officially opened in Vancouver on November 5, ...
,
BC Cancer Research Centre,
BC Healthy Living Alliance, and the
BC Centre for Disease Control. Other shopping areas in the neighbourhood are
South Granville Rise
Established in 1997, South Granville (or less commonly "Uptown") is an upscale Business Improvement Area (BIA) and neighbourhood south of Vancouver's downtown core, centred along Granville Street and bordered by the neighbourhoods of Kitsilano ...
,
City Square Shopping Centre, and
Granville Island
Granville Island is a peninsula and shopping district in the Fairview neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, across False Creek from Downtown Vancouver, under the south end of the Granville Street Bridge. Formerly an industrial ...
.
Some city offices are located on the eastern fringe of Fairview, across Cambie Street from
Vancouver City Hall
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.
Education
Fairview is served by
Kitsilano Secondary School and
Eric Hamber Secondary School, as well as
L'École Bilingue
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,
Emily Carr Elementary School,
Edith Cavell Elementary School,
False Creek Elementary School,
Henry Hudson Elementary School,
Shaughnessy Elementary School, and
Trafalgar Elementary School, although only False Creek and L'École Bilingue are physically located in the neighbourhood. The private schools
Madrona School and
Blessed Sacrament School also find their home in the neighbourhood.
History
The Fairview area, like nearly all of what is now the city of Vancouver, was a primeval rain forest rich with wildlife and gigantic timber until the opening of the Moodyville and
Hastings Mill
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s on
Burrard Inlet
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in the 1860s and was one of the first areas to be logged. The area was one of the CPR land grants within the city but remained largely undeveloped until the city's expansion outside the
Burrard Peninsula with the construction of the
city's new electric railway system in the 1890s. Among the city's lines, which included the Cambie and Granville streetcars and the crosstown route along Broadway, a line known as the Fairview Loop ran in both directions from downtown up Main to Broadway to Granville and back into downtown. With that area's ease of access to the city core, commercial and residential development quickly filled out the neighbourhood, which north of Broadway enjoys a fine view of the city core and the North Shore Mountains, hence the name.
Demographics
As of 2016, Fairview has 33,620 people. 9.6% of the population is under the age of 20; 40.0% is between 20 and 39; 32.8% is between 40 and 64; and 17.5% is 65 or older. 70.9% of Fairview residents speak
English as a first language, and 7.7% speak a
Chinese language
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. The median household income is $69,337 and 14.7% of its population lives in low-income households. The unemployment rate is 4.6%.
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References
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