Burrard Street is a major thoroughfare in Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada. It is the central street of Downtown Vancouver and the Financial
District. The street is named for Burrard Inlet, located at its
northern terminus, which in turn is named for Sir Harry Burrard-Neale.
The
street starts at Canada Place near the Burrard Inlet, then runs
southwest through downtown Vancouver. It crosses False Creek via the
Burrard Bridge. South of False Creek, on what used to be called Cedar
Street before the completion of the bridge in 1932, the street runs due
south until the intersection with West 16th Avenue.
The
intersection of Burrard Street and Georgia Street is considered to be
the centrepoint of Downtown Vancouver, along with the more
tourist-oriented and upscale shopping-spirited intersection of Burrard
Street and Robson Street to the south. At and due northeast of the
centre is the heart of the Financial District. Further down closer to
Vancouver Harbour stands the historic Marine Building, an Art Deco
masterpiece, opened in 1930, two years before the Art Deco pylons of the
Burrard Bridge at the opposite end of the street. Finally at the
Harbour lies Canada Place and the Vancouver Convention Centre.
Nearer to Burrard Bridge is located St. Paul's Hospital, established on Burrard Street in 1894.
Burrard
Street served as the dividing line between the two district lots laid
out on the downtown peninsula in the second half of the 19th century:
District Lot 185 (now West End) and District Lot 541 (granted to the
Canadian Pacific Railway). The two grids were oriented differently, with
the result that only every third northwest-southeast street in DL185
actually continuing southeast beyond Burrard into DL541. Burrard
currently serves as the boundary between West End and Downtown, as
defined by the City of Vancouver.
Burrard Street is served by
SkyTrain's Burrard Station, located underground between the
intersections with Melville and Dunsmuir Streets in the heart of the
Financial District. Along the downtown portion, there is a bike lane on
the southwest-bound direction towards the Burrard Bridge.
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
On Burrard Street in Downtown Vancouver. Summer of 2018.
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