Vancouver-Renfrew.
4 candidates, one seat.

Musqueam says its ancestors have lived throughout the Fraser River estuary for thousands of years and that portions of its territory are called Vancouver and Burnaby today. Squamish Nation lists parts of present-day Vancouver, Burnaby and New Westminster in its traditional territory. Tsleil-Waututh Nation describes its territory as centred on Burrard Inlet, which it calls səlilwət, and says it never gave up its responsibility for that territory. When the City of Vancouver announced the Rupert and Renfrew Station Area Plan in July 2025, it reported that the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations were involved throughout the process.

The plaque text of the Vancouver Heritage Foundation says that First Nations trails passed alongside Trout Lake before European contact. The City's neighbourhood page says that before 1890 this part of the east side had only a handful of residents. Ducks, geese, cougars and black bears lived near lakes that no longer exist. Moody Lake lay where the SkyTrain line runs today, and three smaller lakes built by beavers lay where the Grandview Highway runs now.

The Vancouver Heritage Foundation describes Trout Lake as a natural bog lake fed by many streams. From the 1860s until the city built its Capilano water system in the 1880s, a flume carried the lake's water to the boilers of the Hastings Mill on Burrard Inlet. Beavers kept damming the entrance of the flume. In cold winters the lake served as a skating rink, and the Cedar Cottage stop of the interurban railway stood close by.

The Park Board first showed interest in the lake in 1917 and began to gather land nearby three years later. In 1926 Aldyen Hendry Hamber and her husband Eric Hamber gave part of their land at the site to the Park Board on the condition that it be called John Hendry Park. The name honours her father, who had owned the company that ran the Hastings Mill. By 1932 a peat-mining operation worked at the site to provide the Park Board with revenue. After the Second World War the lake became the only beach on the east side, and its field house was built in 1951.

The City of Vancouver names George Wales as the earliest non-Indigenous settler in Renfrew-Collingwood. In 1878 he bought 221 acres bounded by Wales Street, Kingsway and 45th Avenue, and the street where his house stood still carries his name. In 1891 the inter-urban, an electric railway, began to connect downtown Vancouver with New Westminster. Many early houses and stores rose near the Collingwood East Tram Station at Vanness Avenue and Joyce Street. By most accounts the name Collingwood came from tramway company principals who had lived in Collingwood, Ontario.

The first business in Collingwood was the Collingwood Inn on Kingsway just east of today's Joyce Street, which the City dates to the years near 1890. It served the stagecoaches that travelled between Gastown and New Westminster. Peter Dubois held the first Collingwood school class in his vacant store in 1895. By 1913 the community had a grocery store, a branch of the Bank of Vancouver, a butcher shop, a Methodist church and a doctor. Westminster Road was paved and renamed Kingsway, and bus service along Kingsway began in 1925. TransLink reports that the Central Park Line made its final run on July 16, 1954, after the railway company chose buses.

The City of Vancouver Archives records that the District of South Vancouver was established on 13 April 1892, with boundaries covering all areas south of 16th Avenue except two named parcels. On 1 January 1908 the larger part of the district became the Corporation of Point Grey and South Vancouver kept the east side from Cambie Street to Boundary Road. South Vancouver and Point Grey joined the City of Vancouver on 1 January 1929.

John Norquay Elementary opened officially in August 1913. The school board says it was opened to meet the demands of the growing number of people arriving in South Vancouver. Gladstone Secondary stands on what the board calls an old farm. The site was set aside for a school in the late 1920s, but the Depression and the war delayed construction until 1949. Gladstone opened as a junior high school in 1950 with 1,376 pupils, added one grade each year and graduated its first class in 1954. It is named for William Ewart Gladstone. Windermere Secondary dates from 1961 and takes its name from a lake in the Columbia Valley.

Still Moon Arts Society, a local arts group, says logging in Renfrew Ravine began in 1905 and that large cedar stumps are the only remaining sign of the old-growth trees. The Park Board calls Still Creek the longest remaining visible creek in Vancouver and Renfrew Ravine Park the only park in the city with a creek in a natural ravine. In 2002 two artists, students from Windermere Secondary, the Evergreen Foundation and local residents built the Ravine Sanctuary Garden at the south end of the ravine, according to the society.

The Park Board dates its master plan for Renfrew Ravine Park and Renfrew Community Park to September 2013. Construction of the first phase began on June 1, 2018. It added staircases to the trails, an accessible walkway from the parking lot on Renfrew Street, bridges across Still Creek, a dog off-leash area near Renfrew Street and 22nd Avenue, and a boardwalk to a historic cedar stump. The society reports that salmon returned to the Vancouver part of Still Creek in 2012 for the first time in nearly eighty years. Each September it holds the Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival, which runs from September 7 to 26 in 2026.

Collingwood Neighbourhood House says it has served the Renfrew-Collingwood area since 1985. The plaque text of the Vancouver Heritage Foundation says it began as an idea at a kitchen table and was established in the late 1980s. The house stands at 5288 Joyce Street. It lists licensed child care, immigrant services, recreation, youth and seniors programs among its services. By its own account it became the first neighbourhood house in North America to run a community health centre in 2020.

The City dates the construction of the SkyTrain route along the old interurban route to 1986 and says it brought new low-rise and high-rise apartments near the stations. TransLink reported in October 2017 that the east stationhouse at Joyce-Collingwood Station was open, with a new elevator and escalators. In June 2019 TransLink reported the station upgrades complete, with the west stationhouse opening on Saturday, June 15. A mosaic of coloured panels by the artist Renée Van Halm covers the pavement and walls around that stationhouse and the nearby bus loop.

Trout Lake Community Centre stands in John Hendry Park at Victoria Drive and 19th Avenue. The City says it opened in 2012 and has an ice rink, a gymnasium, a fitness centre and art and pottery studios. The Vancouver Heritage Foundation calls it a legacy of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. The Foundation reports that the Park Board opened Trout Lake for ice skating in 2017 for the first time in 20 years and that National Aboriginal Day has been celebrated at the lake since 2013. Vancouver Farmers Markets lists a Saturday market named Trout Lake, from 9 am to 2 pm between April 4 and October 31 in 2026, at Lakewood Drive and E 13th Avenue.

City Council approved the Norquay Village Neighbourhood Centre Plan in 2010. It aims to renew Kingsway as a local high street, and the Kingsway streetscape works began in 2012. On July 8, 2025, Council unanimously approved the Rupert and Renfrew Station Area Plan, which will guide growth around the Rupert and Renfrew SkyTrain stations for the next 30 years. The plan includes measures to bring parts of the Still Creek corridor back to the surface and to widen it.