Welcome to North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Your North Vancouver (North Vancouver, West Vancouver, Deep Cove, Lions Bay,)
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the phone number and email address to contact Jim or Joyce directly about the REMAX MLS real estate homes for sale including residential houses,
apartments, condos, duplexes, acreages and farms not listed for sale here.
North Vancouver summary
The City of North Vancouver is a waterfront municipality on the north shore of Burrard Inlet, directly across from Vancouver, British Columbia. It is
the smallest of the three North Shore municipalities, and the most urbanized as well. Although it has significant industry of its own, including shipping,
chemical production, and film production, the City is usually considered to be a suburb of Vancouver.
The City of North Vancouver is separated from Vancouver by the Burrard Inlet. It is surrounded on three sides by the District of North Vancouver.
The City of North Vancouver is relatively densely populated with a number of residential high-rise buildings in the Central Lonsdale and Lower Lonsdale areas.
The City has much in common with the District Municipality of North Vancouver and West Vancouver. Together these three municipalities are commonly referred to as the North Shore.
The differences between the two "North Vans" are most apparent to their residents. Other Lower Mainland residents are seldom aware of the difference between the two and refer to
both as "North Vancouver".
North Vancouver is the oldest settlement on Burrard Inlet, predating Vancouver; only New Westminster on the Fraser is the older settlement in the region. Logging came to the virgin
forests of Douglas Fir in North Vancouver, as sailing ships called in to load. A waterpowered sawmill was set up in the 1860s at Moodyville, by Sewell Moody. Subsequently, post
offices, schools and a village sprang up. In time, the municipality of North Vancouver (which encompassed the entire North Shore from Deep Cove to Dundarave) was incorporated.
The financial collapses of the 1890s and 1907 aggrieved the young city into bankruptcy. As a result of this, the separate areas of West Vancouver, and District of North Vancouver
came into being, with the City only holding onto a small portion of its former area.
Part of the reason was the cost of developing raw mountainous terrain. And, originally the ocean foreshore was primarily swamp.The great distances, and large rivers to span,
hindered development. Bridges were built, only to have them washed out in a few years from winter floods. The City and District built Keith Road in 1912, which undulated from West
Vancouver to Deep Cove amid the slashed sidehills, swamps, and burnt stumps.
Yet the City did gain a strong foothold, with Lonsdale Avenue. Serviced by the North Vancouver Ferries, it proved a popular area. Commuters used the ferries to work in Vancouver.
Street cars and early land speculation, spurred interest in the area. Streets, city blocks and houses were slowly built around lower Lonsdale. Wallace Shipyards, and the Pacific
Great Eastern Railway provided an industrial base, although, the late arrival of the Second Narrows Bridge controlled development.
Sawmills, logging, and small farms continued in the interwar years. Yet the nearby mountains also proved to be a permanent attraction. Ski areas were set up on Grouse Mountain and
Mount Seymour. The North Vancouver mountains have many drainages: Capilano, MacKay, Mosquito, Lynn, and Seymour Rivers. The Depression again bankrupted the city, while the Second
World War turned North Vancouver into the Clydeside of Canada with a large shipbuilding program. Housing the shipyard workers, provided a new building boom, which continued on
through the Post war years. By that time, North Vancouver became a popular housing area.
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