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From its unique heritage buildings and homes to its antique shops and multi-cultural markets, East Vancouver is an Eden.

Chinatown

Here you’ll find the third largest Chinatown in North America on Main, Gore, Pender and Keefer Street. There are many wonderful shops here worth exploring.

Strathcona

Just east of Chinatown is Strathcona, Vancouver’s oldest residential neighbourhood, where three types of architecture dominates: Edwardian builder style, Queen Anne, and cottage style.

Along Union Street are two of Vancouver’s most popular markets: Benny’s Italian Market in the 500 block and the Union Portuguese Market in the 800 block.

At 830 Union you'll see a cottage style house in perfect condition. At 832, you'll see a perfect reproduction gray and white Queen Anne style house, with a colorful garden. Along Hawke Avenue you will see some of Vancouver’s oldest homes.

Strathcona Community Garden, offers residents a garden plot to call their own. Residents grow a wide variety of flowers, vegetables and fruits in this beautiful, well hidden setting that includes a rare apple orchard, bee keeping, peaceful paths, and a quiet little pond.

Commercial Drive

One of the East Vancouver’s most popular places and home to Vancouver's "little Italy," the area is undergoing rapid change as upscale young urbanites flock in.

The best way to see "The Drive" is to walk. You'll pass countless Italian coffee bars, restaurants, cafes, shops and galleries.

Main Street

South on Main Street, you reach Vancouver's "Antique Row" which covers several blocks. It features antiques and country furniture shops.

Continue south on Main Street and you'll be in the heart of the Indo-Canadian community. Don't miss visiting the wonderful grocery markets, which offer an outstanding array of spices, imported food items, vegetables, and cooking utensils, not readily available elsewhere in the city.

Relish the feeling of being in a far off exotic place. There are sweet shops, clothing, jewelry, and video stores and wonderful restaurants.

Vancouver’s East Side is a rapidly growing multi-cultural centre, with many large parks and superb recreational facilities.