North Vancouver-Lonsdale.
3 candidates, one seat.

The Squamish Nation, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw, measures its traditional territory at 6,732 square kilometres. The Nation's land page says the territory includes all of North Vancouver and takes in all of Howe Sound, Burrard Inlet and English Bay, with the rivers and creeks that flow into them. The Nation's history page says its reserves were placed at village sites or at traditional food gathering sites. MONOVA names two Squamish villages on this shore: xwemelch’stn at the mouth of the Capilano River, and Ustlawn, also written Eslha7a’n, at the mouth of Mosquito Creek.

BC Geographical Names records that the name Capilano comes from Kiapila'noq, the title of the supreme chief of the Squamish, whose headquarters was the village at the creek's mouth. MONOVA says that in 1792 Captain George Vancouver met a group of Squamish from that village.

The Tsleil-Waututh Nation calls itself səlilwətaɬ, the People of the Inlet. The Nation's pages say that archaeological evidence and oral history show its people have lived in their traditional territory for thousands of years. It says that each fall families camped on the Indian, Capilano, Seymour and other rivers to fish for pink and chum salmon. The Nation states that it never ceded or relinquished its responsibility for the territory.

MONOVA records that the first Catholic Mass on Burrard Inlet was celebrated at Ustlawn in 1860. Canada's Register of Historic Places says the Mission reserve was established in 1864 and was the first permanent settlement in the area now known as North Vancouver. A church named St. Paul's was built there in 1868, where MONOVA says Squamish families were settling.

The register says the original chapel of the mid 1860s was replaced in 1884 by a larger frame church. Twin spires were added in 1909 and the church reopened in 1910. Its address is 426 Esplanade Street West, on what the register calls the fifteen hectare Mission First Nations Reserve. The church was designated a national historic site in 1980. MONOVA says St. Paul's Indian Residential School opened in 1898 on Keith Road just north of the Mission Reserve and stayed open until 1959.

The Squamish Nation's history page dates the survey of reserves along Burrard Inlet and Howe Sound to 1876 through 1888 and says 26 reserves were assigned for the use of the Squamish people. From 1901 to 1915, it says, various reserve lands were leased out or sold for industrial sites. In 1911 the federal government amended the Indian Act so that the Crown could buy urban reserves without the consent of the people living on them. On 23 July 1923 sixteen bands with a combined 412 members were united as one Squamish Nation.

MONOVA says the first sawmill on the inlet, Pioneer Mills, opened in June 1863 near the mouth of Lynn Creek. In early 1865 Sewell Prescott Moody bought it, and the community of Moodyville grew around it, with a hotel and the inlet's first school. The North Shore Heritage Preservation Society places Moodyville between Lonsdale Avenue and the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge, where Low Level Road runs today. MONOVA says the mill closed in 1901 and the village was vacated, and that Moodyville later became part of the City of North Vancouver.

The name Lonsdale comes from the Lonsdale Estates Company of 1882, the heritage society says. The company was linked to Arthur Pemberton Heywood-Lonsdale, an English landowner who never came to see the land. The society describes Lonsdale Avenue as a road that began as a rough logging road and climbs from the Lower Lonsdale waterfront to Upper Lonsdale. In 1903, MONOVA says, Alfred St. George Hamersley bought land west of Moodyville, subdivided it and began selling lots. The area near the waterfront end of Lonsdale Avenue became the centre of the new community.

The District of North Vancouver was incorporated in 1891. MONOVA says it stretched from Horseshoe Bay to Indian Arm and excluded Moodyville. The heritage society says that business owners along the industrial shoreline near Lonsdale did not want their taxes spent on outlying residential areas, so a small commercial section separated and became the City of North Vancouver. BC Geographical Names records the incorporation as a city on 13 May 1907. MONOVA says a newspaper, the Express, called the new city the Ambitious City.

Alfred (Andy) Wallace moved his shipbuilding business from Vancouver's False Creek to deeper water at the waterfront end of Lonsdale Avenue in 1906, according to the heritage society and MONOVA. MONOVA says that during World War I the yard built the first deep sea steel-hulled cargo vessels in British Columbia. The heritage society writes that Wallace Shipyards was renamed Burrard Drydock Company in 1921, and that the RCMP vessel St. Roch, launched in 1928, was built in North Vancouver.

In the Second World War the yard worked in three round-the-clock shifts, MONOVA says. It reports that Burrard Dry Dock made naval vessels and one third of all the cargo ships built in Canada. Parks Canada says the company employed over 13,000 men and women at its peak, and it designated the shipbuilding a national historic event in 2004. The heritage society counts 54 Victory ships built at the North Vancouver site. Women worked in the yards from 1942. MONOVA says that at the end of the war they all lost their jobs to men returning from the armed services.

The Wallace family sold the business in 1972, the heritage society says. MONOVA says the Versatile Pacific shipyard closed in December 1992.

Before any bridge, a ferry crossed the inlet. MONOVA says a passenger ferry named North Vancouver, Ferry No. 1, began running from the waterfront end of Lonsdale Avenue to downtown Vancouver in 1900, and that ferry service continued until 1958. In 1906, it says, the British Columbia Electric Railway began streetcar service up Lonsdale Avenue from the waterfront. The service grew to three lines, joining the ferry dock to Capilano Canyon in the west, Lynn Canyon in the east and Upper Lonsdale. Buses replaced the streetcars in 1947.

The Lions Gate Bridge opened to traffic on 14 November 1938, the Canadian Encyclopedia says. It spans Burrard Inlet at the First Narrows and has a main span of 473 metres. MONOVA says the Guinness family financed it through the British Pacific Properties syndicate. The commission's report uses the bridge in the district's western boundary, which follows the bridge to the Capilano 5 Reserve and north to Marine Drive.

The SeaBus went into service in 1977, MONOVA says, and joined the North Shore to downtown Vancouver by ferry again. Lonsdale Quay opened in 1985 next to the SeaBus terminal, on the site of the former North Van Ship Repairs.

MONOVA says a population boom after the Second World War opened several new residential neighbourhoods from 1947, among them Norgate. In March 1966 the North Vancouver Memorial Community Centre opened at 23rd Street and Lonsdale Avenue. It was a joint project of the City and the District, approved by a referendum, and the building is now the Harry Jerome Community Recreation Centre.

MONOVA also records that many Iranian immigrants, both before and after the 1979 revolution in Iran, settled in North Vancouver in the 1980s. The 2021 census counted Iranian Persian as the first language of 8.9% of the people in the district, the second most common first language after English, and 5,300 residents born in Iran.

MONOVA says the 700-foot long Burrard Dry Dock Pier opened on 23 April 2005 and gave the public access to the formerly industrial waterfront for the first time in a century. In 2014 City Council named the central waterfront area The Shipyards. The heritage society's account of the area lists Shipbuilders' Square, Shipyards Commons, the Pipe Shop and Wallace Mews, and says Shipyards Commons is home to an ice rink, a splash park, a coffee venue and Capilano University.