History of the Marpole neighbourhood in Vancouver

This video was produced by the City of Vancouver as part of the Marpole community plan, to give residents a sense of the planning and development historic milestones that shaped their community today. Find out more at: vancouver.ca/marpoleplan

[@je55777]

Love the old photos of dirt roads through the forest being compared to the modern street, so fascinating

[@slam5]

Marpole is the part of Vancouver that COV gives no service to.. We don't have a community center, the one on Oak Street doesn't count. If you don't drive, you cannot easily get there. I live in south Marpole, right by the Scottish Cultural Center. A lot of folks there don't have a car or can't drive. In order to there, you need to take TWO buses, which isn't exactly feasible for most folks. It is actually less trouble for me get to Kerrisdale community center than going there. I love to go to the gym but it is too far. There should be a community center in that area. There used to be a family place and Hudson and 70th. In 2013, a flood closed the place and since then they moved to Marine station, which is once again, not within walking distance of resident of south Marpole. Look at the library in Marpole, it looks like it is the the 80's(and it probably was). All that changed was the Safeway building. COV, give us a better community plan!!

[@Shieldmaiden600]

Use to go to Marpole library growing up and shopped at Oakridge. My brother was killed on South East Marine drive in 1979..cant be any better now.

[@classicrockcafe]

Is Eburne older than the Granville and Hastings Townsite. Hastings was once known as Brighton in the early 1860's It was also called, The End of The Road. I wonder if Barnet existed back then.

[@wm9254]

"In Marpole, what would it look like in 5 years?", it said in the video above. & the past, to the present, is still the same. If your reading this comment in the feature, it may be, way different, or is it still the same? (When this video was done, 2012 - When this comment was posted, 2017, it has now been 5 years!, & things are still the same, well a little different now, to think about it. Because the Arbutus Green Way has now been added in!

[@disneyplay4]

They’re building a row of townhomes on French & 67

[@CANControlGRAFFITI]

Part of that trail was built illegally

[@KiaGreenEyes]

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[@universalconquest4447]

I love Marpole and South Van in general but Vancouver needs to build LA style lifted highways connecting downtown to the airport and Richmond, and also one in East Vancouver connecting downtown to highway one via First Avenue. They had the right idea with the Georgia Viaduct!

[@1928ModelA1931]

This was a period in history when the city was known as Vancouver as opposed to apparently what it is today, Vangcouver🤪

[@rexluminus9867]

Well they should of kept 1000's of big trees along roads and many for Parks !*** They were just devouring the land without thinking ahead. Shame on them. Hope they spinning in they graves.

[@classicrockcafe]

Was Marpole once known as Eburne?

[@Portland4114]

classicrockcafe yes and there were two of them at the same time. North and south of the Fraser Arm

[@jimervin387]

It's all a big stinking high density mess of traffic to me now

[@VWYL900802]

Please add how did Victoria Drive became so Chinese today. And Fraser St. to be so Punjabi. And all the other high schools.

[@classicrockcafe]

Why is sepia a popular colour for historic pictures?

[@1928ModelA1931]

The city’s name is VANcouver not Vengcouver.

[@Toleh]

Too bad, there are no significant heritage buildings from earlier day, nor from native tribes. It's heritage dead zone.

[@bornagain66]

This is Coast Salish territory that City of Vancouver is allowing developers to build & gentrify the land on top of a Musquem village.Marpole midden is designated as a heritage site.. Many archeologists have done digs there & found many artifacts. They treated the land with respect.unlike the City who just built a liguor barn an ancient burial site.Thisis disgraceful & shows more abuse of our our first people. They are now there gouging up the land.in spite of the human remains unearthed.Shame!

[@mulus2008]

Much like My grandmothers people . from Kitsalano who in 1910 were loaded on a barge at gun point and pushed adrift in English harbor. They made the mistake of being were the they had a park in mind. Chief Joe Capilano pulled them ashore with ( Respect )and they or we became Squamish. Now Pipe lines?????

[@reginald2004]

They are? Really? i guess first Nations should have marked their burial sites a little better. BTW those remains can be reburied in a better well marked location.

[@r.crompton2286]

bornagain 66 When a graveyard is left to deteriorate into a "midden" it shows that those First Nations people who did the burying weren't that much concerned about preserving/beautifying their graveyard(s). They certainly didn't show the degree of respect toward their burying sites that European immigrants later showed in preserving the graves of their dead within Greater Vancouver cemeteries like Mountainvew, Oceanview and Forest Lawn. Had the Salish First Nations properly fenced their grave sites, erected grave markers, planted shrubs etc., then surely the City of Vancouver would have respected those sites. What you do or don't do has a great bearing on what measure of respect is shown by later generations.

[@jimm6095]

Prehistoric north american stone age tribes like the Salish had no concept that land could owned or of "territories"!