Vancouver > Neighborhood > Yaletown 

Overview:

A century ago this district boasted more saloons per acre than anywhere in North America. It housed many of the immigrant railway workers as well as the early traders who saw profit in the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Today, Yaletown’s rambling brick warehouses are undergoing an exciting renaissance as elegant storefronts and Manhattan styled apartments for baby boomers and empty nesters avoiding the ‘burbs are being built. The young and the fashionable, involved in Yaletown’s numerous dot.com companies, movie production houses, hair salons, interior design stores and wholesale clothing industry converge on the neighborhood’s bistros and restaurants. Canyons of condos line Yaletown’s perimeter, parading down to the shores of False Creek. Catch the AquaBus ferries from here over to Granville Island.