Vancouver-South Granville.
5 candidates, one seat.

Three Nations describe the waters around this district as part of their territory, each in its own words. The Musqueam Indian Band says on its website that on 10 June 1976 its elected leadership and membership signed the Musqueam Declaration, which defines its territory by a line around the watershed that drains into English Bay, Burrard Inlet and Indian Arm. The Squamish Nation, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw, gives its traditional territory as 6,732 square kilometres that reaches south to Point Grey and takes in Burrard Inlet and English Bay. səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation), whose name means People of the Inlet, gives its traditional territory as 1,865 square kilometres and says it never ceded or relinquished its responsibility for that territory.

The Vancouver Heritage Foundation describes the False Creek area as the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. It records that the sandbar which became Granville Island was an important fishing spot, where Coast Salish people used a tidal weir of vine maple fencing and stinging nettle fibre netting to hold flounder and smelt in the narrow channel along the south shore. In a statement the Foundation prints, Musqueam says its families stayed at sən̓aʔqʷ while hunting elk and waterfowl, and that salmon, sturgeon and smelt came into False Creek.

The Sen̓áḵw project's history page says Sḵwx̱wú7mesh ancestors had a village at Sen̓áḵw long before European settlers arrived in the Vancouver area in 1791, and that each year families from the upper Sḵwx̱wú7mesh villages came down to fish, hunt and gather. It gives the name as meaning the place inside the head of False Creek. The Vancouver Heritage Foundation places the village just west of the present Granville Bridge. The City of Vancouver calls the Coast Salish village on the False Creek shore Snauq, and says the Kitsilano Indian Reserve lay on the site of today's Vanier Park.

By the Sen̓áḵw page's account, more than 3.5 acres of the reserve were taken for railways in 1886 and another 7 acres in 1901. It says the Government of British Columbia forced an illegal surrender of the land in 1913, and that families were loaded on a barge and set adrift, with nobody allowed to remain. In 1977 the Squamish Chiefs and Council began the Omnibus Trust Action against the Government of Canada. In 2003 the Federal Court of Canada returned 10.48 acres of the original 80 acres as reserve land. The page says the Nation's members voted in 2019 to develop Sen̓áḵw in partnership with OPTrust and that it broke ground in 2022. The development describes its site as the foot of the Burrard Street Bridge, and it offers purpose-built rental homes.

The City of Vancouver names three things that opened Kitsilano to settlement: the Canadian Pacific Railway, which owned most of the land east of Trafalgar Street, the streetcar line along 4th Avenue to Alma Street, and the Burrard Bridge of 1932. Heritage Vancouver says the architects Sharp and Thompson added concrete towers, torch-like entrance pylons and Art Deco details to the bridge's steel frame. The City also records that until the 1950s members of Vancouver's Sikh community lived in the blocks of Cypress and Cedar, now Burrard Street, near the sawmills on False Creek where many of them worked.

The Vancouver Heritage Foundation says the Alexandra Neighbourhood House opened in 1938 at 7th Avenue and Pine Street, the first neighbourhood house in Vancouver, on the site of an orphanage that had begun in 1891 as a women's and children's hospital. St George's Greek Orthodox Church, built in 1930 to a design by William Marshall Dodd, drew Greek families to Kitsilano and made West Broadway the commercial centre of the Greek community, the Foundation says. The Association of Neighbourhood Houses obtained the church in 1972 and began to operate it in 1974. Kitsilano Neighbourhood House was a voting place in this district in 2024.

The Museum of Vancouver's history page says that in 1968 the City Museum moved into its present building on the south shore of False Creek, now Vanier Park, and became the Centennial Museum. Gerald Hamilton designed the building, and a gift from H.R. MacMillan let him add a planetarium under a dome shaped like a woven basket hat of Northwest Coast First Nations. The museum took the name Vancouver Museum in 1981 and Museum of Vancouver in 2009. Parks Canada's register says the St. Roch, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner built in 1928, stands in a purpose-built A-frame at the Vancouver Maritime Museum, 1905 Ogden Avenue. The ship crossed the Northwest Passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic, reaching Halifax in 1942, and in 1944 returned to Vancouver in eighty-six ice-free days. The register gives 15 May 1962 as the date she was recognized as a national historic site.

The City of Vancouver says Fairview was named in 1886 by L.A. Hamilton, the Canadian Pacific Railway's Land Commissioner, whose survey set the numbered east-west avenues and named the cross streets after trees. In 1887 the railway, at the request of City Council, put its Pacific terminal yards on the north side of False Creek, and the forest on the south side gave way to shipbuilding yards, sawmills and shingle mills. The Vancouver Heritage Foundation says the first Granville Bridge opened on 4 January 1889 as a timber trestle designed by the railway, and that two years after it was built the railway cleared the Fairview Slopes for settlement while a street railway company ran the Fairview Belt Line along the bridge's east side. A second bridge replaced the first in 1909 and the present bridge opened in 1954.

The City says it bought 5.5 acres, two city blocks, from the railway in 1902 for $5,500 to build a new hospital at 10th Avenue and Heather Street. Heritage Vancouver says the Heather Pavilion, the oldest building on the Vancouver General Hospital campus, opened in 1906 as the largest and most modern hospital in western Canada. In 2002 the City designated the 1906 pavilion and the 1908 end bays and towers of its south addition as protected heritage. Heritage Vancouver's 2025 watch list says the Daily Hive reported that Vancouver Coastal Health has presented a phased plan that would demolish the pavilion in its second phase, and that the plan is preliminary and depends on rezoning, approvals and funding. Vancouver Coastal Health describes the hospital as British Columbia's referral centre for many provincial programs and a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of British Columbia.

The City says that from the early 1920s to the early 1960s the Fairview Slopes were zoned for three-storey apartments, and that in the 1950s the area south of Broadway became an apartment district with Broadway, Granville Street and Cambie Street as its shopping streets. The slopes were rezoned in 1972 from industrial to residential and commercial use, and Fairview Heights, a fifteen-block area south of the hospital, was rezoned in 1984 from duplex to low-rise apartment use. Older buildings remain, among them Fairview House at 1151 West 8th Avenue, built in 1889, Hodson Manor at 1254 West 7th Avenue, built in 1894 and moved two blocks in 1974, and the Seaforth Armoury on Burrard Street, built in 1935 and 1936.

The Vancouver Heritage Foundation says Athletic Park opened on April 16, 1913, on the block northeast of 6th Avenue and Hemlock Street, as the home of the Vancouver Beavers baseball team. On October 20, 1934, a rainy exhibition game there was played by the All Americans, a team that included Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, before they sailed for a tour of Japan. The last game was played on June 7, 1951. The Foundation says the park was removed for the ramps of the Granville Bridge, which opened in 1954, and that Capilano Stadium, now Nat Bailey Stadium, replaced it.

Further south, the Stanley Theatre at 2750 Granville Street was completed in 1930. The Foundation says Frederick Guest, a theatre owner from Hamilton, Ontario, commissioned Henry Holdsby Simmonds to design it, and that it held over 1,200 people. Famous Players closed it in 1991. After a campaign called Save Our Stanley, the Arts Club Theatre Company bought it, and it reopened in 1998 as a playhouse with 650 seats. The Foundation says it won a City of Vancouver Heritage Award in 1999 and was renamed the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage in 2005 after a donation of $1.5 million.

The South Granville Business Improvement Association says it was established in 1999, and describes the street as one of Vancouver's original High Streets. The City's page for Fairview names Gallery Row in the South Granville shopping district and lists the South Granville Business Improvement Association and the South Granville Seniors Centre among the community resources the City supports and funds.

The City of Vancouver says Granville Island was created in 1916 from soil dredged from False Creek. The Vancouver Heritage Foundation says the National Harbour Commission built a seawall around the sandbars in 1916 and filled it with mud from the creek bed, and that the island was called Industrial Island. BC Equipment Ltd, its first tenant, arrived in 1917. The Foundation says that in the 1930s 40 industrial companies on the island employed 1,200 people, making rope, chain and fibre and supplying logging, mining and shipping. It says the name Granville Island came into use during the Second World War, and that in the 1950s fires, trucking and the move of industry to the suburbs ended the island's industrial years. Plans to fill in False Creek reached as far as the Sutcliffe Park area, which joined the island to the mainland.

The City says that in 1972 administration of the 15 hectare island passed from the National Harbours Board to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, and that in 1973 Council adopted policies for redeveloping False Creek. The Heritage Foundation dates the corporation's ownership to 1973, so the two sources differ by one year. The City says the Public Market opened in 1979, followed by the Maritime Market, Emily Carr College of Art, theatres, artists' studios and craft galleries. The Foundation says the market reopened in 1978. Emily Carr University's timeline says the university moved from Granville Island to its campus at Great Northern Way in 2017.

The Government of British Columbia announced the locations of six Broadway Subway stations on 18 September 2019. Two lie inside this district. South Granville is on the northeast corner of Broadway and Granville Street. The station then named Fairview-VGH is on the southwest corner of Broadway and Laurel Street near Oak Street, to serve Vancouver General Hospital. TransLink announced the final station names in September 2020, and Fairview-VGH became Oak-VGH.

The 2019 release said service would begin in 2025. A release of 21 September 2026 says the 5.7-kilometre extension of the Millennium Line is scheduled to open for passenger service in fall 2027, and that trackwork would be complete that week. The release says the extension runs from VCC-Clark Station to Broadway and Arbutus Street with six underground stations.