45 Fascinating Photos Capture Street Scenes of Vancouver in the 1980s

Vancouver is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, and the most populous city in the province. It has the highest population density in Canada, with over 5,400 people per square kilometer. Vancouver is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada: 52 percent of its residents are not native English speakers, 48.9 percent are native speakers of neither English nor French, and 50.6 percent of residents belong to visible minority groups.

Vancouver in the 1980s

Vancouver is one of the most livable cities in Canada and in the world. In terms of housing affordability, Vancouver is also one of the most expensive cities in Canada and in the world. Vancouver plans to become the greenest city in the world. Vancouverism is the city's urban planning design philosophy.

As of 2016, Port Metro Vancouver is the fourth-largest port by tonnage in the Americas, the busiest and largest in Canada, and the most diversified port in North America. While forestry remains its largest industry, Vancouver is well known as an urban centre surrounded by nature, making tourism its second-largest industry. Major film production studios in Vancouver and nearby Burnaby have turned Greater Vancouver and nearby areas into one of the largest film production centers in North America, earning it the nickname “Hollywood North”.

These fascinating photos from CanadaGood Gregory that captured street scenes of Vancouver in the 1980s.

PR railway trestle and the Burrard Street bridge as seen from Granville Street Bridge, Vancouver, 1980

Flying Karamazov Brothers at Vancouver Folk Festival in Jericho Beach Park, Vancouver, 1982

Looking east from 1200 block of West Broadway in Vancouver, 1982

View of back laneway parking and apartment building lawn as seen from Burnaby Street apartment, Vancouver, 1982

View west from apartment on Barclay Street, Vancouver, 1983

Toor Spices & Foods Ltd., a grocery store on Main Street, Vancouver, 1984

A J Convenience grocery store on southeast corner of Main Street and East 49th Avenue, Vancouver, 1984

All India Food Centre grocery store on 6622 Main Street, Vancouver, 1984

B&A Grocery store at 4172 Main Street, Vancouver, 1984

Chinese grocery stores on Main Street (just south of Keefer Street), Vancouver, 1984

Entrance to Granville Island, under the Granville Street Bridge, Vancouver, 1984

Fearn's Food Market, a Lucky Dollar Foods grocery store on Main Street, Vancouver, 1984

Ferguson Point Teahouse in Stanley Park, Vancouver, 1984

Fortune Grocery store on Main Street near 49th, Vancouver, 1984

Grocery store at 8105 Main Street, Vancouver, 1984

Grocery stores on Main Street near 33rd Avenue, Vancouver, 1984

India Super Market grocery store on Main Street, Vancouver, 1984

Italian grocery and Main Ford Grocery store on Main Street (just south of Keefer Street), Vancouver, 1984

KenMart grocery store on Main Street at 29th Avenue, Vancouver, 1984

Main Market grocery store on Main Street, Vancouver, 1984

Robin Hood Farms Ltd Freezer Meats store at 2710 Main Street, Vancouver, 1984

Shirley's Bakery on Main Street about 48th Avenue, Vancouver, 1984

The white wall of Eaton's Department Store is seen behind the Vancouver Art Gallery / Courthouse Plaza from West Georgia Street. The Art Gallery plaza has spring flowers and tree blossoms, Downtown Vancouver, 1984

View north from Little Mountain in Queen Elizabeth Park looking toward downtown and the North Shore mountains, Vancouver, 1984

Windsor Packing Company at 4110 Main Street near King Edward, Vancouver, 1984

Wreck Beach at mouth of Fraser River in Vancouver, 1984

Below the seawall at low-tide east of Lions Gate Bridge in Stanley Park, Vancouver, 1986

Burrard Street Bridge in Vancouver, 1986

CPR railway grain cars on the waterfront in East Vancouver as seen in early morning from Second Narrows Bridge. They are waiting besides the grain terminals in Vancouver, 1986

Dunsmuir Street at Seymour Street looking west, Vancouver, 1986

Free Long John Baldry concert on Water Street in Gastown, Vancouver, 1986

Georgia Street entrance to Stanley Park, Vancouver, 1986

Inside the Robson Public Market on Robson Street in Vancouver, 1986

Looking east on Hastings Street at Cambie in downtown Vancouver, 1986

New condos on Pacific Avenue in Vancouver, 1986

Sunset Beach and Burrard Street Bridge over False Creek in Vancouver, 1986

The Dominion Building on east side of downtown Vancouver as seen from VVI/VCC college in early 1986. Victory Square and Hastings Street are in the foreground

Vancouver's Robson Public Market on Robson Street on snowy day, 1986

View east on Dunsmuir Street in downtown Vancouver, 1986

Workman putting up banners on Burrard Street Bridge in Vancouver for the city's 100th Birthday, 1986

Wreck Beach at mouth of Fraser River in Vancouver, 1986

Bill Reid's Haida killer whale bronze statue in front of entrance to the Vancouver Public Aquarium, Vancouver, 1987

Peace March gathered at Sunset Beach in Vancouver, 1987

Truck with Christian religious signs parked near the entrance to Stanley Park at Denman and Georgia Streets, Vancouver, 1987

Vancouver Nissan shipload car sale at Ballantyne Pier in Vancouver, 1987