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Places of Interest Nearby

Bard on the Beach

Theater building

Photo: Irene Kehler, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bard on the Beach is Western Canada's largest professional Shakespeare festival. The theatre festival runs annually from early June through September in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

H. R. MacMillan Space Centre

Museum

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

The H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, is an astronomy museum located at Vanier Park in Vancouver, British Columbia. The museum was opened on October 28, 1968, containing a Planetarium Star Theatre. H. R. MacMillan Space Centre is situated 170 metres west of City of Vancouver Archives.

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. Vancouver Maritime Museum is situated 390 metres northwest of City of Vancouver Archives.

Places in the Area

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.

Davie Village

Neighborhood

Photo: Jeff Hitchcock, CC BY 2.0.

Davie Village is a neighbourhood in the West End of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is the home of the city's LGBT subculture, and, as such, is often considered a gay village, or gaybourhood.

Kitsilano

Suburb

Photo: Flying Penguin, 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.

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