West Vancouver-Capilano.
4 candidates, one seat.

Two Nations describe this shore as part of their territory, each in its own words. The Squamish Nation, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw, gives its traditional territory as 6,732 square kilometres. Its website says the territory includes parts of Vancouver, Burnaby and New Westminster, and all of North Vancouver, West Vancouver, Port Moody, the District of Squamish and the Municipality of Whistler. It says the boundaries take in all of Howe Sound, Burrard Inlet and English Bay, with the rivers and creeks that flow into them, and that village sites in the territory date back 3,000 years.

The Tsleil-Waututh Nation calls itself səlilwətaɬ, the People of the Inlet, and names its language hən̓q̓əmin̓əm. Its website says traditional use studies and archaeological evidence show that its ancestors occupied a vast area, and that they have lived in their traditional territory for thousands of years. It lists the Indian, Capilano and Seymour rivers among the places where families gathered to fish for salmon in the fall and early winter. The Nation says it never ceded or relinquished its responsibility for the territory.

The river that runs through the district takes its name from the Squamish language. BC Geographical Names says the name derives from Kiapila'noq, the hereditary title of a Squamish chief whose village stood at the mouth of the creek. The name was adopted as Capilano Creek on 31 March 1917 and changed to Capilano River on 6 May 1947.

The Squamish Nation's history page says reserve lands along Howe Sound and Burrard Inlet were allotted and surveyed between 1876 and 1888, and that 26 reserves were assigned for the use of the Squamish people. Between 1901 and 1915, it says, various reserve lands were leased out or sold for industrial sites. In 1911 the federal government amended the Indian Act to allow the Crown to purchase urban reserves without the consent of the people living there. On 23 July 1923, sixteen bands with a combined population of 412 members were united into one Squamish Nation.

The North Shore Heritage Preservation Society says the District of North Vancouver was incorporated in 1891 and originally extended from Deep Cove to Horseshoe Bay. The Canadian Encyclopedia lists Horseshoe Bay among the attractions of West Vancouver, so the shore that became West Vancouver lay inside that first boundary. BC Geographical Names records that West Vancouver was incorporated on 15 March 1912, and the West Vancouver Police Department's history page says its first District Council was elected on 6 April 1912.

The Canadian Encyclopedia says North Vancouver extends from the Capilano River on the west to beyond Deep Cove on the east, and its article on West Vancouver names North Vancouver as West Vancouver's eastern neighbour. The electoral district crosses the Capilano River and joins West Vancouver with Capilano Highlands, Delbrook and Pemberton Heights on the eastern bank. BC Geographical Names places West Vancouver on the north side of Burrard Inlet, west of North Vancouver.

Before there was a bridge, people crossed Burrard Inlet by boat. Scout Magazine reports that the West Vancouver Ferry Company was formed in 1909 by Lawson and Thompson with Robert Macpherson and John Sinclair. By 1912 Lawson had spent more than $11,500 on the service and boats. In 1912 the new municipality bought the company for $6,000. In 1913 a terminal with a ticket office and a tea room was built at the foot of 14th Street. The standard run went from there to the foot of Columbia Street on the Vancouver waterfront. The trip took 25 minutes, ran on the hour and cost 10 cents. West Vancouver's boats made their last sailing in 1947.

The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names says that Dundarave was named by Russell E Macnaughton, an assistant professor of Greek at the University of British Columbia. Dundarave Castle on Loch Fyne in Scotland was the ancestral home of the MacNaughtons. The same entry says the Dundarave pier was built in 1914.

British Pacific Properties says on its own history page that it was incorporated in 1931 by a group of investors led by members of the Guinness family. The company says it designed, built and financed the Lions Gate Bridge, which opened ahead of schedule in November 1938. The Canadian Encyclopedia's article on the bridge agrees that the Guinness family paid for it.

That article says construction began on 31 March 1937 and the bridge opened to traffic on 14 November 1938. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth presided over the official opening on 29 May 1939. The Guinness family paid $5,873,837.17 to build the bridge and sold it to the province for that same amount in 1955. The Canadian Encyclopedia's article on West Vancouver says the company's investments started residential growth after the Second World War.

Park Royal's own history page says construction began in August 1949, when W. C. Woodward turned the first shovel of earth. The first phase included a Woodward's department store, a Woodward's food store and 25 other stores and services. The page gives the size as 120,000 square feet on 11½ acres, at a cost of $1.5 million, and says the centre opened for business in the fall of 1950. It says the Earl of Iveagh suggested the name because a Guinness brewery stood in the Park Royal district of London.

The same page says that on 4 August 1961 Chief Mathias Joe turned the first shovel of earth on property that British Pacific Properties leased from the Squamish Nation, under a lease of 99 years. It says the south mall was completed in 1962, and that in 1969 the north mall was converted from an unenclosed strip centre to an enclosed shopping centre.

Metro Vancouver's fact sheet says Cleveland Dam stands on the Capilano River in a deep and narrow rock canyon, next to Capilano River Regional Park and immediately upstream of the Capilano Salmon Hatchery. The dam was built between 1952 and 1954 at a cost of $10.7 million. Metro Vancouver, through the Greater Vancouver Water District, owns and operates it. The fact sheet lists two later upgrades: a $3 million seismic upgrade in 1992, and a $25 million upgrade in 2001 and 2002 to the East Abutment, the section of soil beside the concrete dam.

The commission's 2023 map shows Capilano Lake, Capilano Watershed Regional Park and Capilano River Regional Park inside the district's boundary.