NORTH VANCOUVER

NORTH VANCOUVER
Is a waterfront city and district municipality that occupies the lower slopes of the North Shores and across downtown Vancouver from Burrard Inlet via the Seabus and Lions Gate Bridge. North Vancouver City was developed in 1900 as a marketable location for commercial activity at the bottom of Lonsdale Avenue. On May 13th of 1907 with a population of about 2,000 people, North Vancouver became incorporated as a city and during the First World War (WWI), it quickly expanded to its present day size when it absorbed and merged the sawmill community of Moodyville, which is located just to the east of both of here and the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Bridge. Shortly thereafter, a village, post office, and school were quickly situated and sprang up. In its early years, North Vancouver City’s main economic activities were ship-building and sawmilling. During the years of the depression, North Vancouver was forced to declared bankruptcy and managed by a commissioner until 1944. Since then the city has lost much as early day historical and industrial character and is considered mostly as a residential suburb of Vancouver and the waterfront has since been revitalized with the addition of the Lonsdale Quay (market, hotel, Translink city bus terminal, and small mini-mall) in 1986. There are 3 main exits that lead travelers to North Vancouver City from the Trans-Canada Highway/Upper Levels Highway; including Lonsdale Avenue Exit (Exit #18), Westview Road exit (Exit #17), and the Lynn Valley Road Exit (Exit #19). North Vancouver is named simply because of its geographical location north of Vancouver via Burrard Inlet and its main economic activities include tourism, light industry and retail services.

NORTH VANCOUVER’S POPULATION: 45,165 (CITY)
NORTH VANCOUVER'S POPULATION: 82,562 (DISTRICT)