False Creek

Inlet in north-central Vancouver, British Columbia, extending southeast from English Bay (Burrard Inlet), between the West End and Downtown (to the north) and Fairview (to the south). It has been a centre of industry and commerce since the 1870s, and has been much reduced in size by land reclamation schemes.

False Creek was originally connected at high tide with Vancouver Harbour, north across the downtown peninsula. Early industry here included sawmilling and shipbuilding. A bridge was built across the creek in the 1870s, and the Canadian Pacific Railway sited its marshalling yards in the north of the area in 1887. Granville Island, a landfill-enlarged peninsula in the south, is now a popular gallery, market, and restaurant zone. Expo 86, Vancouver's world's fair, was based on the northern side of False Creek, an area that has since been redeveloped as a commercial and residential district; it is also the site of BC Place, a 60,000-seat, inflated-dome stadium.