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38-586: George Henry Richards named False Creek during his hydrographic survey of 1856-1863. While travelling along the south side of the Burrard Inlet, Richards thought he was traversing a creek ; upon discovering his error, he gave the inlet its current name. The inlet opens into the English Bay to its northwest, and is surrounded by the Downtown and West End neighbourhoods in the north, Strathcona in

76-999: A Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1866 and a corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences in the same year. He was knighted in 1877, became a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1881 and became an admiral in 1884. He died in Bath, Somerset aged 76. A portrait of him by Stephen Pearce , dated 1865, hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London. Mount Richards in Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta, Canada

114-621: A group of Tsleil-Waututh led by Khatsalahnough , a leader from Lil'wat (near present-day Pemberton ), occupied present-day False Creek. At this time, there were large sandbars at its entrance. False Creek, which lies in Musqueam territory, was a shared waterway; in addition to the Tsleil-Waututh, the Squamish inhabited False Creek as well, occupying it year-round. Before European settlement, False Creek extended as far east as what

152-546: A result, one nickname for False Creek was "Shit Creek". From 1894 to 1905 Alfred Wallace built ships on the north shore of False Creek next to Granville Street Bridge . In 1913, the Squamish residents of the Kitsilano Reserve , on the False Creek sandbar, were forced to relocate. According to Maracle, the settlement was burned down following the forced evacuation. In 1916, the sandbar on which this settlement

190-461: A time when the merchant navy was expanding rapidly and telegraphic underwater cable laying operations were intensifying, the Admiralty had a great need for more accurate ocean charts. It was in this context that Richards was asked to organise the scientific cruises of the H.M.S. Porcupine and the H.M.S. Lightning between 1868 and 1870, followed by that of the H.M.S. Challenger . He was elected

228-594: A vein of coal, he named Brockton Point and the area of Coal Harbour . In 1860, he named Mount Garibaldi after Giuseppe Garibaldi . Other landmarks in the area named by him are the Britannia Range , and Brunswick Mountain and many features in the Howe Sound , Sunshine Coast , and Jervis Inlet areas. In 1863 he was appointed Hydrographer to the Navy and held that position until 1874 when he retired. At

266-433: A vibrant waterfront market. These plans were formalized in a 1972 Official Development Plan. The form and mix of development were revolutionary for Vancouver at the time. A third of the site was set aside for 40 units/acre housing with the balance converted to park, waterfront and community uses. The North Shore of False Creek (NFC) was further transformed in the 1980s, as it took centre stage during Expo 86 . Following Expo,

304-414: A week due to heavy snow. The Vancouver Sun arranged for the first driver across the 1909 bridge, Sidney Annoot, to repeat her feat in 1954. The city government self-funded the bridge project, which cost $ 16.5 million (equivalent to $ 184 million in 2023 dollars), with "no formal assistance given by any other government body" according to mayor Frederick Hume . A million vehicles crossed over

342-525: Is 27.4 m (90 ft) above Granville Island . The bridge is part of Highway 99 . The first Granville Bridge opened in 1889, crossing from Beach Ave to 3rd Ave and was part of the scheme to clear Granville Street through to the North Arm of the Fraser River, where a bridge crossed to the farming community of Eburne. Granville Street was called Centre Street south of False Creek (until 1907) and

380-409: Is a medium-density area with a variety of architectural designs, ownership opportunities, recreational activities, and modes of transportation, which allows for easier mobility within the community and a more picturesque landscape. False Creek south is home to False Creek Elementary School. False Creek consists of 70% social housing and 30% leasehold apartments and condos. All of False Creek South

418-528: Is named in his honor. [REDACTED] Media related to George Henry Richards at Wikimedia Commons Granville Street Bridge The Granville Street Bridge or Granville Bridge is an eight-lane fixed cantilever / truss bridge in Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada, carrying Granville Street between Downtown Vancouver southwest and the Fairview neighborhood. It spans False Creek and

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456-423: Is now Clark Drive. With land reclamation extending into Burrard Inlet and False Creek for port and industrial uses, the landscape began to change dramatically. Once a vital source for Tsleil-Waututh, Musqueam, and Squamish food supplies such as sea asparagus , berries, camas , oysters, clams, wild cabbage, and mushrooms, False Creek became polluted with sewage and toxic effluent from sawmills and other industries. As

494-532: Is on Leasehold land which is owned by the City of Vancouver. Southeast False Creek (Olympic Village) consists mostly of market-rate apartments and modern condos with a few co-ops and social housing. The north shore of False Creek, on the downtown peninsula, has undergone multiple stages of development since its purchase by the province from the Canadian Pacific Railway in the early 1980s. Before

532-705: The Canada Line in a tunnel between Olympic Village station on the South shore and Yaletown-Roundhouse station to the North. There are regular reports of pollution problems in False Creek, and there are occasional warnings that the water is not safe for swimming, particular at the eastern end which is least affected by tidal inflow and outflow. Because of connections between Vancouver's storm-sewer and sanitary-sewer systems, heavy rains may cause raw sewage to discharge directly into False Creek. Several decades following

570-471: The Coast Salish predates the arrival of salmon in the river 4500–5000 years ago, an occurrence that took place symbiotically with the emergence of Douglas fir , western hemlock , and western red cedar ecosystems between 4000 and 5000 years before the present day. According to Squamish - Sto:lo author and historian Lee Maracle , Vancouver was inhabited by "Downriver Halkomelem " speaking peoples,

608-738: The Expo 86 World's Fair. False Creek South is a neighbourhood that runs along south shore roughly between the Granville and Cambie bridges. Further east, Southeast False Creek (Olympic Village) runs roughly from Cambie Street to Main Street . Human settlement in the Lower Fraser region began between 8000 and 10 000 years ago, following the retreat of the Sumas Glacier at the end of the last ice age . The settlement by peoples now known as

646-489: The Tsleil-Waututh . First contact between Europeans and the indigenous peoples of present-day Vancouver occurred in June 1792. By 1812, Halkomelem peoples had survived three large epidemics from foreign illnesses such as smallpox, introduced through trading routes, including a 1782 outbreak that killed two-thirds of the population. It has been estimated that shortly before the time of first contact and these epidemics,

684-475: The 1950s, and was home to many sawmills and small port operations. As industry shifted to other areas, the vicinity around False Creek started to deteriorate. In 1960, BC Forest Products plant and lumber storage facility on the south side of False Creek caught fire in Vancouver's first-ever five-alarm blaze. Every piece of firefighting equipment and all of Vancouver's firefighters fought the blaze for hours, but

722-579: The BC Cabinet bought the land of North False Creek to begin development for Expo '86, the land was used for industrial purposes. Provincial leaders developed a plan to build a sports stadium ( BC Place ), commercial outlets, and high-density residences on the newly cleared land. False Creek North is home to Crosstown Elementary School as well as Elsie Roy Elementary School . George Henry Richards Sir George Henry Richards KCB FRS (13 January 1820 – 14 November 1896)

760-627: The Province sold the NFC site to Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing whose company Concord Pacific successfully marketed Vancouver in Asia, as a place for investment and migration. With the province enabling strata titles , a high-rise condominium boom soon followed, with Downtown Vancouver's population soaring from around 6,000 throughout the 1970s and 1980s to over 43,000 in 2006. The 1991 Official Development Plan enabled significant new density commensurate with

798-481: The bridge in its first month. The eight-lane structure was constructed from 1951 to 1954 on the same alignment as the first bridge. Steel plate girders salvaged from the second bridge were made into barges for constructing the foundations of the Oak Street Bridge . Initially only four lanes were open to traffic until the completion of the loop ramps on the north side on July 16. The bridge's wide design

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836-585: The east, and Mount Pleasant , Fairview and Kitsilano in the south. Science World is located at its easternmost end, along with BC Place Stadium and the Georgia Viaduct . Proceeding east to west, it is crossed by the Cambie , Granville , and Burrard bridges. The Canada Line rapid transit tunnel crosses underneath False Creek just west of the Cambie Bridge. In 1986, it was the location of

874-565: The facility was totally destroyed. Walter Hardwick , a geography professor at UBC , first elected to City Council in 1968, led the City's redevelopment team and helped secure the participation of the Federal Government, which owned Granville Island. A major public involvement and co-design process followed which established public priorities for an accessible waterfront seawall; mixed-tenure housing including market condominiums, co-op and low-income housing and live-aboard marinas; and

912-529: The indigenous population of the Lower Fraser was over 100,000. An 1830 Hudson's Bay Company census documented 8954 indigenous inhabitants in the region, although the census probably omitted some settlements. As a result of epidemics, the population of the Tsleil-Waututh was reduced to 41 individuals by 1812, who invited the neighbouring Squamish to reside in Burrard Inlet . Shortly after that,

950-461: The land to redevelopment. The Granville Street Bridge underwent a seismic retrofit that began in late 2018 and was completed in September 2021. In January 2019, Vancouver City Council announced a plan to improve pedestrian and cyclist access to the bridge from the surrounding neighbourhoods by creating a new separated bike and walking path located in the centre of the bridge roadway. The plan

988-513: The late 1800s and mid-1900s, to being the populous residential area that it is today. The development of this area, beginning anew in the 1970s, occurred at a critical time in Vancouver's history when citizens were organising support for a new picture of the city, one that broke away from the standardized utilitarian cities that were so popular in North America and, instead, pushed for a more liveable and diverse built environment. The result

1026-415: The new slit through the forest heading south was initially known as North Arm Road. The 2,400-metre (7,900 ft) long, low timber trestle bridge opened on January 4, costing $ 16,000 to build, and was designed by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). It had a swing span near the downtown side, was wide enough for two wagons, had a 4-foot (1.2 m) wide separated path on the west side for pedestrians, and

1064-784: The population exceeded 3,000. False Creek is a very popular boating area for many different activities including rowing, dragon boating, canoeing, kayaking, public ferries, charter ships, and visiting pleasure boats. It has 10 marinas with berths for 1500 watercraft and several paddling clubs or boat rental facilities. Since 1986, the creek has been the venue for the Canadian International Dragon Boat Festival and other paddling events. Aquabus and False Creek Ferries are two ferry companies that operate scheduled services daily to and from multiple points along False Creek. In addition to three bridges and multiple bus routes, False Creek can also be crossed via

1102-449: The provision of significant public amenities including street front shops and services, parks, school sites, community centres, daycares, co-op and low-income housing. Since then, most of the north shore has become a new neighbourhood of dense housing (about 100 units/acre), adding some 50 000 new residents to Vancouver's downtown peninsula. On December 1, 1998, Vancouver City Council adopted a set of Blue ways policies and guidelines stating

1140-416: The sewer overflow system into the creek, and the seawall that constrains much of the shoreline with little habitat value. The city has attempted to recreate the natural shoreline in some areas and is working to phase out the antiquated sewer overflow system. The south shore of False Creek has had quite a diverse history of land uses since its founding. South False Creek went from being an industrial park, in

1178-574: The suspension of industrial activity in the area, a number of shore and seabirds such as cormorants, ducks, herons, kingfishers, owls, geese, crows, and gulls have returned, as well as harbour seals. In an unusual sighting, in May 2010 a grey whale entered False Creek and traversed its length before returning to the open waters of the Strait of Georgia . Factors working against the further return of wildlife include residual industrial contaminants, spillage from

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1216-578: The vision of a waterfront city where land and water combine to meet the environmental, cultural and economic needs of the City and its people in a sustainable, equitable, high quality manner. Southeast False Creek (SEFC) is the neighbourhood designated by Cambie, Main, West 2nd Avenue, and False Creek. The 2010 Olympic Village , for athlete housing and logistics of the Winter Olympics , is found in Southeast False Creek. As of 2021,

1254-851: Was Hydrographer of the Royal Navy from 1863 to 1874. Richards was born in Antony, Cornwall , the son of Captain G. S. Richards, and joined the Royal Navy in 1832. His eldest son, George Edward Richards also became a Royal Navy officer and hydrographic surveyor. He served in South America, the Falkland Islands , New Zealand, Australia and in the First Opium War in China. Promoted to captain in 1854, from 1857 to 1864 he

1292-657: Was barely above high tide – children swam from it in the summer. Two years after it was built, the CPR cleared the Fairview Slopes and opened them for settlement; the street railway company (predecessor of the BC Electric ) ran a single-track on a trestle on the east side of the bridge for the "Fairview Belt Line" which connected Granville Street, 9th Avenue (now Broadway) and Main Street with downtown, hoping it would help spur development, which it did. The second bridge

1330-449: Was completed in 1909. It was a longer, medium-level steel bridge with a through truss swing span. During World War I , on April 29, 1915, a fire broke out on the bridge that was thought to be an arson attack. Four Germans were arrested. On February 4, 1954, the current Granville Street Bridge opened to traffic after five years of planning and construction; its dedication ceremony was attended by 5,000 spectators after it had been delayed

1368-626: Was in command of the two survey ships: HMS  Plumper and HMS  Hecate . He was the second British commissioner to the San Juan Islands Boundary Commission and a hydrographer on the coast of British Columbia in 1857–1862. He is responsible for the selection and designation of dozens of placenames along the British Columbia coast. In the Vancouver area, for example, he named False Creek . In 1859, after his engineer Francis Brockton found

1406-477: Was located was built into Granville Island to create new industrial land. In 1917, the eastern basin of False Creek was infilled to create land for the Canadian Northern Railway 's Pacific Central Station . Talk of draining and filling the inlet to Granville Street continued into the 1950s, but that never occurred. The False Creek area was the industrial heartland of Vancouver through to

1444-434: Was meant to accommodate a future freeway that would serve downtown; those plans were cancelled in the 1960s. Recent improvements to the bridge include increasing its earthquake resistance , and installing higher curbs and median barriers . In December 2017, Vancouver City Council approved a plan to remove the "Granville Loops" - a pair of cloverleaf off-ramps connecting the bridge with Pacific Street - and open up

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