Fairview is a neighbourhood on the west side of the city of Vancouver

Vancouver

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, British Columbia

British Columbia

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, Canada

Canada

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. It runs from 16th Avenue in the south, to Burrard Street

Burrard Street

Burrard Street is a major thoroughfare in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is the central street of Downtown Vancouver and the Financial District. The street is named for Burrard Inlet, located at its northern terminus, which in turn is named for Sir Harry Burrard-Neale.The street starts at...

 in the west, to Cambie Street

Cambie Street

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 in the east, and to False Creek

False Creek

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 in the north.

Central Broadway

Broadway (Vancouver)

Broadway is a major east-west thoroughfare in the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In Vancouver's numbered avenue grid system, it runs in place of a 9th Avenue, between 8th and 10th. The street has four lanes for most of its course...

 is an important commercial and employment centre focused around Vancouver General Hospital

Vancouver General Hospital

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 and other health-related institutions, including the BC Cancer Agency

BC Cancer Agency

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, BC Cancer Research Centre

BC Cancer Research Centre

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, BC Healthy Living Alliance

BC Healthy Living Alliance

The BC Healthy Living Alliance is the largest coalition of health leaders in British Columbia’s history. Collectively, BCHLA members capture the attention of over 40,000 volunteers, 4,300 health and recreation professionals, and 184 local governments across British Columbia...

, and the BC Centre for Disease Control. Other shopping areas in the neighbourhood are South Granville Rise

South Granville Rise

Established in 1907, South Granville or Uptown is an upscale Business Improvement Area south of Vancouver's downtown core and bordered by the neighbourhoods of Kitsilano, Fairview and Shaughnessy....

, City Square Mall

City Square Mall

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, and Granville Island

Granville Island

Granville Island is a peninsula and shopping district in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is located in False Creek directly across from Downtown Vancouver's peninsula, under the south end of the Granville Street Bridge....

.

Some city offices are located on the eastern fringe of Fairview, across Cambie Street from Vancouver City Hall

Vancouver City Hall

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.

Education

Emily Carr University of Art and Design is found in the neighbourhood, on Granville Island.

Fairview is served by Kitsilano Secondary School

Kitsilano Secondary School

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 and Eric Hamber Secondary School

Eric Hamber Secondary School

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, as well as L'École Bilingue

L'École Bilingue

L'École Bilingue Elementary is a public French immersion elementary school in Vancouver, British Columbia part of School District 39 Vancouver.- History :L'école operates in a three-storey brick school building formerly called Cecil Rhodes School...

, Emily Carr Elementary School

Emily Carr Elementary School

Emily Carr Elementary School in Vancouver, British Columbia, is an elementary school. It was named after prominent British Columbian artist Emily Carr....

, Edith Cavell Elementary School, False Creek Elementary School, Henry Hudson Elementary School

Henry Hudson Elementary School

Henry Hudson Elementary School is an elementary school located on Cypress Street in Kitsilano, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. As of the 2009/10 school year, the principal is Bruce Porritt.-History:...

, Shaughnessy Elementary School

Shaughnessy Elementary School

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, and Trafalgar Elementary School

Trafalgar Elementary School

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, although only False Creek and L'École Bilingue are physically located in the neighbourhood. The private schools Madrona School

Madrona School

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 and Blessed Sacrament School also find their home in the neighbourhood.

History

The Fairview area, like nearly all of what is now the city of Vancouver, was a primeval rain forest rich with wildlife and gigantic timber until the opening of the Moodyville and Hastings Mill

Hastings Mill

Hastings Mill was a sawmill on the south shore of Burrard Inlet and was the first commercial operation around which the settlement that would become Vancouver developed in British Columbia, Canada....

s on Burrard Inlet

Burrard Inlet

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 in the 1860s and was one of the first areas to be logged. The area was one of the CPR land grants within the city but remained largely undeveloped until the city's expansion outside the Burrard Peninsula

Burrard Peninsula

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 with the construction of the city's new electric railway

British Columbia Electric Railway

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 system in the 1890s. Among the city's lines, which included the Cambie and Granville streetcars and the crosstown route along Broadway, a line known as the Fairview Loop ran in both directions from downtown up Main to Broadway to Granville and back into downtown. With that area's ease of access to the city core, commercial and residential development quickly filled out the neighbourhood, which north of Broadway enjoys a fine view of the city core and the North Shore Mountains, hence the name.

Demographics

As of 2006, Fairview has 29,295 people, a 3.1% increase from 2001. 9.3% of the population is under the age of 19; 42.7% is between 20 and 39; 34.6% is between 40 and 64; and 13.4% is 65 or older. 70.5% of Fairview residents speak English

English language

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 as a first language, and 8.1% speak a Chinese language

Chinese language

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. The median household income is $52,458, and 19.2% of its population lives in low-income households. Its unemployment rate is 4.4%.