Vancouver-Hastings.
6 candidates, one seat.

The northern edge of Vancouver-Hastings is the south shore of Burrard Inlet. Tsleil-Waututh Nation names itself səlilwətaɬ, which it translates as People of the Inlet. It says that archaeological evidence and its oral history show its people have lived in its traditional territory for thousands of years. The Nation says it has never ceded or relinquished its responsibility for that territory, and that industry and the growth of cities have exploited and damaged its resources.

Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw, the Squamish Nation, measures its traditional territory at 6,732 square kilometres. The Nation says the territory includes all of Howe Sound, Burrard Inlet and English Bay, and that some of its village sites are 3,000 years old. Musqueam leaders and members signed the Musqueam Declaration on 10 June 1976. Its boundary runs along the height of land around the whole watershed that drains into English Bay, Burrard Inlet and Indian Arm.

The Vancouver Heritage Foundation's guide to Hastings-Sunrise gives the name X̱í7nam̓ut, also written Khanamoot, for the place now called New Brighton Park. The guide says that in the 1860s the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish and Musqueam peoples were increasingly confined to villages on the North Shore and in Stanley Park.

In 1863 Colonel Richard Moody of the Royal Engineers chose X̱í7nam̓ut, today's New Brighton Park, as the end of a wagon road that joined Burrard Inlet to the colonial capital, New Westminster, according to the Vancouver Heritage Foundation. Moody supervised a government town reserve that ran east from present-day Nanaimo Street and south nearly to Kingsway. It became known as the Hastings Townsite. The City of Vancouver says the northern half of that block of land is today's Hastings-Sunrise.

A resort grew on the shore. The City says the New Brighton resort was established in 1865 at the foot of Windermere Street, and the foundation says the Brighton Hotel opened that year for vacationers from New Westminster. By 1868, the City reports, vacationers, loggers and mill workers rode a stagecoach 16 kilometres from New Westminster to the hotel. A ferry called the Sea Foam then ran a triangular route, across Burrard Inlet to Moodyville, to Stamp's Mill at the foot of Dunlevy Street, and along the northern shore back to New Brighton.

In 1869 the settlement took the name Hastings after Admiral George Fowler Hastings, who had visited, and the first subdivision lots in the future Vancouver were offered for sale. The Canadian Pacific Railway finished its tracks along the south shore of Burrard Inlet in 1887 and ran past Hastings to its end on the waterfront of the newly incorporated City of Vancouver. In 1889 the provincial government gave part of the Hastings Townsite to Vancouver as a park. The City says the New Brighton Hotel was destroyed by fire in 1905.

In December 1911 the landowners of the Hastings Townsite voted 1,200 to 1 to join the City of Vancouver, the foundation records. Frank Woodside led the campaign for the vote. In 1911 he paid for a corner store with apartments above at 2598 Eton Street, and he served as the ward alderman from 1911 to 1928. Canada's Register of Historic Places calls that building one of the earliest remaining commercial buildings in this part of east Vancouver.

A streetcar line along McGill Street to Renfrew was finished for the opening of the Vancouver Exhibition, and the foundation says it helped settle the area. The City says the northern, Hastings part of Hastings-Sunrise was built up with houses in the 1920s, and that the southern part, Sunrise, south of First Avenue, was built in the 1940s. The name Sunrise came into use in the 1940s, after a subdivision called Sunrise Ridge and a nearby Sunrise Park.

Public buildings followed the houses. Hastings Elementary School on Franklin Street was built in 1912, enlarged in 1925 and upgraded against earthquakes in 2003, with its brick front kept. The City names the 1912 Girls' Industrial School on Cassiar Street as one of the few Mission Revival buildings left in Vancouver. The Hastings Community Association was incorporated in 1934, and the New Brighton outdoor pool opened in 1936. The foundation adds that the corner of Powell Street and Victoria Drive, where a lumber and sash mill stood, was called Heaps by the Japanese Canadians who worked there.

Hastings Park began as a place for leisure. The foundation says the Hastings Park Race Course has held horse races since 1892, and the City says a half-mile race track drew visitors until the turn of the twentieth century. Residents then asked for events such as trade shows for dairy farmers, loggers and gardeners. That request led to the first exhibition, staged by the Vancouver Exhibition Association in 1910, the City reports.

The Canadian Encyclopedia says the association was founded in 1907 and that its first fair, then called the Industrial Exhibition, was opened by Sir Wilfrid Laurier on 16 August 1910. The first fair drew 68,000 people. It is now the Pacific National Exhibition, a 17-day summer fair that the encyclopedia says draws more than 900,000 visitors each year. The City says the site had been renamed Exhibition Park by 1946.

The Forum was built in 1931 as a concert hall and was the home of the Vancouver Canucks from 1945 to 1968, the foundation says. The City describes the Forum and the Garden Auditorium, first built as the Education Building, as examples of the Moderne style. Across Renfrew Street, Con Jones Park, later Callister Park, held soccer, lacrosse and baseball from 1921 until its stadium was torn down in 1971.

In 1942 Hastings Park became a detention site for Japanese Canadians. Canada's Register of Historic Places says the Department of National Defence and the BC Security Commission expropriated the site in April 1942 to hold Japanese Canadians before they were sent to internment or work camps. The Nikkei National Museum says that in early 1942 over 8,000 Japanese Canadians were detained in the park.

The register describes how each building was used. The Livestock Building held women and children in poor conditions. The Forum separated men and boys aged 12 to 17 from their families before they were sent to road and work camps. Rollerland became a dormitory and classroom for teenage boys under Reverend Yoshio Ono of the United Church of Canada, and the Garden Auditorium was used to teach children and teenagers. The museum has placed information panels at these four buildings and offers walking tours.

The events of 1942 reached the streets around the park. The foundation says Bunzo and Misu Watanabe ran the Park Grocery at 2598 Eton Street, and that the federal government confiscated and resold it, with other Japanese Canadian property on the coast, soon after the owners were interned. The register dates their running of the store to 1939. The Vancouver Japanese Gardeners' Association established Momiji Garden in the park in 1993, and in 2017 the Province of British Columbia recognised Hastings Park as a heritage site.

On 7 August 1954 the British Empire Games held the Miracle Mile at Empire Stadium in Hastings Park. The Encyclopedia of British Columbia says Roger Bannister of England beat John Landy of Australia, 3:58.8 to 3:59.6, and that it was the first time two runners had broken four minutes in the same race. It adds that the race was the first international sports event broadcast live on television to all of North America. A bronze statue at Hastings and Renfrew marks the race, the City says.

Playland moved to its present site in 1958, when it took that name, according to the Canadian Encyclopedia. The Wooden Roller Coaster was built the same year by Carl Phare and Walker LeRoy. The foundation gives the coaster a largest drop of 20 metres and a top speed of 76 kilometres an hour, and calls it the oldest operating wooden roller coaster in Canada.

The Pacific Coliseum opened on the PNE grounds on 8 January 1968 with the touring Ice Capades show, the Encyclopedia of British Columbia says. The Vancouver Canucks, then in the Western Hockey League, played there, and on 9 October 1970 they played their first National Hockey League game in it. The foundation records that the Coliseum received a Places That Matter plaque in 2013, and the PNE says it hosted events of the 2010 Olympic Games.

Only the eastern part of Grandview-Woodland lies in the district. The City's history of the whole neighbourhood says the Vancouver to New Westminster interurban railway opened in September 1891 and ran each hour along Park Drive, which was renamed Commercial Drive in 1911. After the First World War, Italian, Chinese and East European immigrants came to Grandview, the City says. After the Second World War a second wave of Italian immigrants renovated old houses and added shops and restaurants on Commercial Drive.

Vancouver Technical Secondary School, at 2600 East Broadway, was a voting place in the district in 2024. The Vancouver School Board says it began in September 1916 in the basement of King Edward High School and moved to the Labour Temple at Homer and Dunsmuir. A new building at Broadway and Clinton, now Penticton Street, opened in 1928. Girls were first admitted in September 1940, and two large additions were finished by 1954. The foundation names Townley and Matheson as the architects and Charles Marega as the sculptor of the relief panel above the entrance.

χpey̓ Elementary School stands at 1950 East Hastings Street. It was Macdonald Elementary until the Vancouver School Board renamed it on 23 October 2017. The board says χpey̓ means cedar in the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ language, and that the school is an Indigenous Focus Choice School.

The PNE says the City of Vancouver has owned the PNE since January 2004, and that City Council adopted the Hastings Park/PNE Master Plan in December 2010. The plan keeps Playland and the annual fair and increases the amount of park land. The City's page on Hastings-Sunrise says a lease held by the province until 1994 was replaced by a new agreement that made the City the owner of the site.

On the shore, the foundation says work on an intertidal salt marsh in New Brighton Park was completed in 2017, after 150 years of industrial use of the waterfront. The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority and the Park Board funded it, with the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam Nations involved, and signs give the Indigenous names of the plants and animals. The City's project page adds that a stream link from Creekway Park is part of the long-term restoration of Hastings Creek, and that the work carries out the 2010 Hastings Park and PNE Master Plan and the 1997 New Brighton Park Master Plan.