Granville Island

	Granville Island
	; Granville Island (2005)
	Geographical location
Coordinates	49 ° 16 '17 " N , 123 ° 8' 6" W Coordinates: 49 ° 16 '17 " N , 123 ° 8' 6" W.
Waters 1	Pacific Ocean ( False Creek )
length	700 m
width	300 m
surface	20 ha
	; The Granville Island Public Market

Granville Island (1922)

Granville Island is a small peninsula and a shopping and cultural district in the Canadian city of Vancouver . It is located in the False Creek inlet under the southern end of the Granville Street Bridge . Granville Island was created in 1915 through land reclamation by filling the channel between two shallow sandbars . The peninsula was once an industrial area that fell into disrepair from the 1950s and was finally put to new uses in the 1970s.

On the peninsula there is a flea market, a marina , the Emily Carr University of Art and Design (named after the artist of the same name ), a museum for model trains , several theaters and shopping streets. These are grouped around the only remaining industrial operation, a cement factory. Since the conversion of the industrial wasteland, numerous handicrafts have set up on Granville Island, including a glassworks, a printing company, violin makers, shoemakers, jewelers and potters. There is also a farmers' market here every week. In 1984 a brewery was opened on the peninsula, the Granville Island Brewing Co. , but today it mainly produces in Kelowna .

You can either travel by car on Granville Street over the False Creek Bridge or take the False Creek Ferries.

history

The island is named after Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville , the British Colonial Minister at the time of its first mapping. One of the sandbanks which later became the base of the island was first recorded on a map by Captain George Henry Richards during his voyage with the HMS Plumper from 1858 to 1859 .

Web links

Commons : Granville Island - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

Granville Island . In: BC Geographical Names (English)
Official website
Granville Island Cultural Society
Model railway museum

Individual evidence

↑ Ohlhoff, Kurt Jochen: Canada, the West, Alaska . ISBN 978-3-7701-7822-3 ( worldcat.org [accessed February 17, 2020]).
^ Andrew Scott: The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia . Harbor Publishing, Madeira Park, BC 2009, ISBN 978-1-55017-484-7 , pp. 234 (English).

[1] Ohlhoff, Kurt Jochen: Canada, the West, Alaska . ISBN 978-3-7701-7822-3 ( worldcat.org [accessed February 17, 2020]).

[2] Andrew Scott: The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia . Harbor Publishing, Madeira Park, BC 2009, ISBN 978-1-55017-484-7 , pp. 234 (English).