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The City of Vancouver's 2018 report on the design of Northeast False Creek Park says Vancouver is situated on the unceded traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. It says the area of Northeast False Creek is of significant meaning to those Nations, who stewarded the land since time immemorial, and that each Nation had its own relationship to the area, including its own names for the lands and resources. The report prints excerpts from each Nation's website.

Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw, the Squamish Nation, says its traditional territory includes all of Howe Sound, Burrard Inlet and English Bay, and that some village sites in it date back 3,000 years. səlilwətaɬ, the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, gives its name as People of the Inlet and says that archaeological evidence and its oral history show its people have lived in its territory for thousands of years. Musqueam says its ancestors have lived throughout the Fraser River estuary for thousands of years, and that on June 10, 1976 its elected leadership and membership signed the Musqueam Declaration. On July 9, 2014, Vancouver City Council adopted a framework that designated Vancouver as a City of Reconciliation.

The Canadian Pacific Railway reached Vancouver in 1887. The West Coast Railway Association says Engine 374 hauled the first passenger train over the 12 mile extension from Port Moody to Vancouver on May 23, 1887, carrying 150 passengers. The Vancouver Heritage Foundation says the Roundhouse, its turntable and its machine shop were completed in 1888 and are among the oldest industrial structures in the city. It adds that Vancouver's population grew more than 10 times in three years.

The City says Yaletown took its name when the railway moved its construction equipment and repair shops from Yale in the Fraser Canyon to Vancouver, and that entire houses were carried on flatcars to what became known as Yaletown. The City reports that sawmills and shingle mills settled along the north side of False Creek over the next 20 years. In 1900 it laid out streets for an eight-block warehouse district near the original Yaletown, bounded by Nelson, Homer, Drake and Pacific Streets, where goods were processed, repackaged and stored.

The City of Vancouver says the first passenger train arrived at the foot of Howe Street in 1887. In the seven years after that, a building boom began to move the city centre from Water and Cordova Streets up to Georgia and Granville Streets, and streetcar service started in 1890. The City says the next decade confirmed Granville Street as the centre of Downtown, and that by 1912 a core office and shopping area was well developed. The Vancouver Heritage Foundation counts the present Canadian Pacific station at 601 West Cordova Street, built in 1914 to a design by the Montreal architects Barott, Blackader and Webster, as the fourth station of the railway. It says all departing soldiers boarded trains in Vancouver during the First World War.

The Canadian Register of Historic Places says the judicial district of Vancouver was created in 1892 and that new court facilities were needed by 1906. The courthouse that Francis Mawson Rattenbury designed opened in the fall of 1911, and the Register says it was praised then as the finest building of its kind in Canada. The City says the 1929 stock market crash halted downtown development and began a thirty five year period of little change. It adds that after the crash, shanty towns stood under the Georgia Viaduct and on the False Creek flats.

The City says the late 1960s and 1970s brought rapid growth to Downtown, as the Pacific Centre mall was built and Granville Street became a transit mall, a street given over to public transit. It dates the completion of the Robson Square courthouse and Vancouver Art Gallery complex to 1977. The Vancouver Heritage Foundation says the architect Arthur Erickson was commissioned in 1974 and that the three-block scheme was completed between 1979 and 1983, so the two sources give different dates. The Canadian Register says trials were held in the old courthouse until 1979, that Erickson designed the new courthouse across the street and converted the old one into the Vancouver Art Gallery, and that the old building became a national historic site in 1980.

The Foundation says the provincial government of W.A.C. Bennett had planned a 55-storey office tower on the site that would have replaced the art gallery, and that the plan was scrapped after the government lost office in 1972. It says Vancouver City Council voted in 2016 to close Robson Street between Hornby and Howe Streets to vehicles. The Vancouver Public Library says its central library opened at 750 Burrard Street on November 1, 1957. Voters endorsed money for a new one in November 1990, and the City bought the site at 350 West Georgia Street. Library Square opened on May 26, 1995, at a cost of $107 million, which the library calls the largest capital project the City had undertaken at the time.

The City says industrial land around False Creek was rezoned for residential neighbourhoods and that a 60,000 seat indoor stadium, B.C. Place, was built in the early 1980s. The Vancouver Heritage Foundation says the stadium opened on June 19, 1983, cost $126 million and was the largest air-supported dome in the world, a roof held up by air pressure. The Canadian Encyclopedia says Expo 86 opened on 2 May 1986 and closed on 13 October 1986 after 20,111,578 visits. Its main site of 67 hectares ran 4.5 kilometres along the north and east shores of False Creek, and its theme was transportation and communications.

The Encyclopedia says the Roundhouse remained after the fair as one of two theme pavilions, and that the Canada Pavilion, which extended 3.5 city blocks into Burrard Inlet at a cost of $145 million, now serves as a convention centre and cruise ship terminal. The West Coast Railway Association says Engine 374 was moved to the Expo 86 Roundhouse site on February 13, 1986. Geoff Meggs wrote in The Tyee that the province sold 80 hectares of former rail yards, the site of Expo 86, in 1988 to Li Ka-shing for $320 million. He describes a three-way agreement in which the province sold the land and accepted liability for soil contamination, Concord Pacific pledged to build the project and the City set the planning rules and approved the rezoning.

The City adopted the False Creek North Official Development Plan by By-law No. 6650 on April 10, 1990. The current text of the plan says False Creek North is to be a predominantly residential area. It requires 17.05 hectares of neighbourhood park and provisions for a kindergarten to grade 7 community school, a second kindergarten to grade 7 school, a community centre with a gymnasium and at least eight child day care facilities. It lists BC Place Stadium and Rogers Arena among the features of the setting that development should build on. In 1991 Council amended Downtown's Official Development Plan for the area known as Downtown South, which covers 51 hectares south of Robson Street and north of Pacific Street.

The Vancouver Heritage Foundation says that after Expo 86 the Roundhouse was restored to become Yaletown's community centre and was expanded to house Engine 374. Elsie Roy Elementary School stands at 150 Drake Street, and the Vancouver School Board describes Yaletown as a densely populated community of multi-unit high-rise buildings. The 2021 census counted 55,310 people in the district. One-person households made up 50.8% of households, single-detached houses made up 0.1% of dwellings, 27.6% of homes were built from 1991 to 2000 and 23.2% from 2006 to 2010.

The Vancouver Heritage Foundation says BC Place hosted the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, and that in 2011 its air-filled roof was replaced with a cable-supported fabric roof. It says Robson Square hosted the international media centre during the Games. The City's Northeast False Creek Plan sets the long-term vision for what the City calls the last remaining piece of large undeveloped land in the downtown along False Creek. The City says the original Georgia Viaduct was built in 1915 and was replaced in the early 1970s and joined by the Dunsmuir Viaduct.

Global News reported that Vancouver City Council approved the plan on February 13, 2018, and that council had first approved removing the viaducts in 2015. The City's page lists 1,800 units of social housing, 32 acres of parks and open space, and a network of streets at ground level in place of the viaducts. The City's 2018 report says it engaged the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations and urban Indigenous people on the park design from the fall of 2016 to February 2018. The report describes a park that includes the new and renewed Creekside Park, the revitalized Andy Livingstone Park and the renewed Downtown Skateboard Plaza.