Little India
The Punjabi Market, also known as Little India, is a commercial district and ethnic enclave in Vancouver, British Columbia. Officially recognized by the city as being primarily a major South Asian, Indo-Canadian and Punjabi population business community and cultural area, the Punjabi District is roughly a six block section of Main Street around 49th Avenue in the Sunset neighbourhood.- Type: Locality with 6,510 residents
- Description: human settlement in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Also known as: “Punjabi Market” and “Punjabi Market, Vancouver”
Places of Interest
Highlights include QE Park and Nat Bailey Stadium.
QE Park
Park
Photo: Craig Nagy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Queen Elizabeth Park is a 130-acre municipal park located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is located on top of Little Mountain approximately 125 metres above sea level and is the location of former basalt quarries dug in the beginning of the twentieth century to provide materials for roads in the city.
Nat Bailey Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Gateman1997, Public domain.
Rogers Field at Nat Bailey Stadium, also known as The Nat, is a baseball stadium in western Canada, located in Vancouver, British Columbia. It is home to the Vancouver Canadians of the High-A classification Northwest League.
John Oliver Secondary School
School
John Oliver Secondary School is a public secondary school located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, at East 41st Avenue and Fraser Street. It is named after John Oliver, the Premier of British Columbia from 1918 to 1927.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oakridge and Sunset.
Oakridge
Suburb
Oakridge is a neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with a multicultural residential and commercial area. It had a population of 13,030 in 2016, of which approximately 50 percent have Chinese as their mother tongue.
Sunset
Suburb
Sunset is one of the most ethnically diverse neighbourhoods in Vancouver, British Columbia. It is located in the south-east quadrant of the city. Surrounding the multicultural Fraser Street district, Sunset is bordered by both the Marpole and Oakridge neighbourhoods to the west, and the Victoria-Fraserview neighbourhood to the east.
Riley Park
Suburb
Riley Park, sometimes also known as Riley Park–Little Mountain, is a neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia. Its boundaries are 41st Avenue to the south, 16th Avenue to the north, Cambie Street to the west, and Fraser Street to the east.
Little India
- Category: neighborhood
- Location: Vancouver, Metro Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Western Panjabi—“Little India” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “旁遮普市場”
- Czech: “Punjabi Market”
- Dutch: “Punjabi Market”
- Malay: “Punjabi Market, Vancouver”
- Malay: “Punjabi Market”
- Panjabi: “ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਮਾਰਕਿਟ, ਵੈਨਕੂਵਰ”
- Panjabi: “ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਮਾਰਕਿਟ”
- Persian: “بازار پنجابی (ونکوور)”
- Persian: “بازار پنجابی”
- Slovak: “Punjabi Market”
- Urdu: “پنجابی مارکیٹ، وینکوور”
- Western Panjabi: “پنجابی مارکیٹ”
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