BC spot prawns live from the dock in May, Richmond Night Market dim sum at midnight, and skiing Whistler with downtown for dinner
Vancouver is the most geographically improbable major city in North America — mountains at 2,000m visible from the seawall, 45 minutes from a ski resort, hemmed in by ocean on three sides and the Coast Mountains to the north. The food culture reflects its demographics: approximately 30% of the metropolitan area is of Chinese ancestry (highest proportion of any North American city outside San Francisco and Honolulu), and the Richmond restaurant district — an autonomous municipality immediately south of Vancouver — is home to the most internationally recognised Chinese restaurant concentration…
The area was the territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations when European contact began in 1792 with Captain George Vancouver's survey of the inlet. The Hudson's Bay Company established Fort Langley in 1827; the actual city of Vancouver was incorporated in 1886 — and burned completely to the ground six weeks later. The Canadian Pacific Railway's decision to terminate its transcontinental line at the Burrard Inlet inlet (instead of Port Moody, as originally planned) was the single act that determined Vancouver's geogr…