CAMBIE
Cambie is a larger community with many parks and services available to individuals and families. It spans the area of 41st avenue on its North border to West 16th on its south. Its East to West borders, are from Oak street heading East to Main Street.
Home to one of Vancouver’s highest points of elevation, Queen Elizabeth Park. Surrounded by spacious homes, this trendy area has a lot to offer.
Some of the main facilities and business in the area are:
Parks: Queen Elizabeth Park, Hillcrest Park, Douglas Park and Riley Park are all in the area. For some entertainment you can always go to the Nat Bailey Stadium for a baseball game.
High Schools: Eric Hamber High School
Elementary Schools: Edith Cavell, Emily Carr, and Wolfe elementary schools.
Community Centres: Riley Park and Douglas Park community centres.
Business centres: Just south on Cambie at 41st is the legendary Oakridge Mall.
Government: Just North of Cambie, located on Oak and 23rd street is the Vancouver General Hospital, and right beside that is the Vancouver city hall.
Recycling / Garbage: There is a community dump and recycling centre just South of the intersection of Cambie and Marine drive.
For addresses and links to the all the facilities and businesses mentioned above please CLICK HERE.
One of Vancouver’s smallest communities placed between Queen Elizabeth Park and Shaughnessy Heights is Cambie.
Although it may have a small size and population, Cambie is growing to become one of the most popular areas in Vancouver West. This area is dominated by Little Mountain, which is the highest point in Vancouver and offers a spectacular 360-degree view of the city. The area is also close to the Langara golf course, which was one of the first golf courses built in Vancouver in 1926. And right beside the golf course you can find the very popular Langara College, which is now home to more than 23,000 students.
History
Cambie was once home to loggers, miners, Chinese vegetable gardeners as well as elk, and oxen. It was named after Henry Cambie, a Canadian Pacific Railroad engineer.
In 1874, the first non-native settler William Mackie came to Cambie and claimed 65 hectares around what is today known as Douglas Park. In the following year, Jeremiah Rogers made a road to the Little Mountain so that people could access the mounds of lumber that covered it. After all the lumber had been removed, the former oxen pasture became home to a small milk ranch. In 1910 the land was used for Chinese vegetable farming and at last in 1926, the land was named Douglas Park. Because of the boom in the years following the turn of the 19th century, the area North of King Edward developed massively, similar to Shaughnessy. Around 1926, Douglas Park was now surrounded by houses, and by the middle of the 1950’s the federal government had released one of the last remaining empty land areas just North of 41st Avenue for development. This area is home to a large number of Craftsman-style heritage homes from the 1910s and 1920s.