Travel Reference
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Neighborhoods at a
Glance
The heart of Vancouver occupies a jutting, ocean-fringed peninsula that's easily divided
into three: the grid-pattern streets of shops, restaurants and businesses radiating from the
city center's Granville and West Georgia Sts; the 1950s towers and dense residential side
streets of the West End (also home to Vancouver's gay district); and Stanley Park,
Canada's urban green-space gem.
The neighborhood where Vancouver began, Gastown is Vancouver's cobbled old-town
district. Rapidly transforming in recent years, its heritage buildings are now home to
