Kitsilano
Kitsilano, South Granville and Granville Island form most of the northern part of the Vancouver west side. In the 1960s Kits was a neighbourhood where hippies "tuned in and dropped out" but today it has some of Vancouver's most expensive properties.Photo: Flying Penguin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kitsilano Beach and Vancouver Maritime Museum.
Kitsilano Beach
Beach
Kitsilano Beach is one of the most popular beaches in Vancouver, especially in the warm summer months. Located at the north edge of the Kitsilano neighbourhood, the beach faces out onto English Bay.
Vancouver Maritime Museum
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Vancouver Maritime Museum is a maritime museum devoted to presenting the maritime history of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and the Canadian Arctic.
Seaforth Peace Park
Park
Seaforth Peace Park, formerly Seaforth Park, is a park in Vancouver's Kitsilano neighbourhood, in British Columbia, Canada. The park's name refers to the neighboring Seaforth Armoury.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kitsilano-Granville Island and Greektown.
Kitsilano-Granville Island
Photo: Jmabel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kitsilano, South Granville and Granville Island form most of the northern part of the Vancouver west side. In the 1960s Kits was a neighbourhood where hippies "tuned in and dropped out" but today it has some of Vancouver's most expensive properties.
Greektown
Neighborhood
Photo: Tavis Ford, CC BY 2.0.
Greektown in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, is an area in the Kitsilano neighbourhood that was historically an enclave of Greek immigrants and their descendants.
Granville Island
Neighborhood
Photo: Zhatt, Public domain.
Granville Island is a peninsula and shopping district in the Fairview neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, across False Creek from Downtown Vancouver, under the south end of the Granville Street Bridge.
Kitsilano
- Type: Suburb with 43,000 residents
- Description: human settlement in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Categories: human settlement, neighborhood, and locality
- Location: Vancouver, Metro Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
49.26941° or 49° 16′ 10″ northLongitude
-123.15527° or 123° 9′ 19″ westPopulation
43,000Elevation
24 metres (79 feet)Named after
August Jack KhatsahlanoOpen location code
84XR7R9V+QVOpenStreetMap ID
node 704270682OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Uzbek—“Kitsilano” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Кицилано”
- Cebuano: “Kitsilano”
- Chinese: “基斯兰奴”
- Chinese: “基斯蘭奴”
- Dutch: “Kitsilano”
- Estonian: “Kitsilano”
- French: “Kitsilano”
- Irish: “Kitsilano”
- Japanese: “キッツラーノ”
- Korean: “키칠라노”
- Persian: “کیتسیلانو”
- Slovak: “Kitsilano”
- Swedish: “Kitsilano”
- Uzbek: “Kitsilano (Vankuver)”
- Uzbek: “Kitsilano”
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