Hastings Street (Vancouver)

Route description

Formally named in 1885 for Rear-Admiral George Fowler Hastings of the Royal Navy, the street runs past such well-known Vancouver landmarks as the Marine Building, the Vancouver Club, Sinclair Centre, Harbour Centre (once Spencer's, Eaton's, then Sears and now the downtown campus of Simon Fraser University), Dominion Building and Victory Square (the location of the city's original courthouse) and the Woodward's Building; located in the old Dunn's Tailors building at Homer and West Hastings is the campus of the Vancouver Film School, while on the corner of Cambie is the Carter-Cotton Building, the former headquarters of the Vancouver Province newspaper. East of Woodward's, the street forms the heart of Vancouver's historic original downtown, once known as the Great White Way because of its neon displays, and which is today the Downtown Eastside. Through the East End, after a stretch of warehouse-type commercial and wholesale businesses, the street forms one of the commercial cores for Vancouver's Italian community in a mixed-ethnicity retail area in the area of Nanaimo Street, just east of which the Pacific National Exhibition and Playland are on the city of Vancouver's eastern fringe. After leaving Vancouver, Hastings forms the core of a Burnaby retail neighbourhood known as the Heights and then traverses Capitol Hill to the Lochdale and Westridge areas.

Major intersections

From west to east.

Photos

File:WHastings.jpg|West Hastings, looking east from Harbour Centre File:Hastingsdtes2.jpg|200 Block East Hastings Street (north side) near Main Street, Downtown Eastside, Vancouver File:Hastingsscene.jpg|East Hastings Street, Vancouver. Looking east from Victoria Drive. File:Hastings Street Kootenay Loop.JPG|East Hastings Street in East Vancouver, between Cassiar St. and Skeena St. File:Hastings Street Lochdale Burnaby.JPG|Hastings Street in Lochdale, North Burnaby; Westridge in background. File:Hastings @ Inlet.jpg|Hastings Street joins Inlet Drive (on the left) while continuing uphill towards Simon Fraser University. Eagle Ridge and Westridge in the distance. File:A streetcar at Hastings and Granville, Vancouver, in 1905.jpg|Hastings and Granville, Vancouver, featuring a streetcar and folk in formal wear, circa 1905 File:Hastings-granville.jpg|Looking northwest towards the Marine Building from Granville Street, circa 1945. File:Hastings Street, Vanvouver BC (HS85-10-24573).jpg|West Hastings, looking eastward from the corner of Granville Street, circa 1911 File:Hastings Street, Vancouver BC March 1st (HS85-10-25273).jpg|View looking westward from Cambie Street. Probably taken from an upper floor or the roof of the Carter-Cotton Building. March 1, 1912. The Dominion Building is on the right-hand side of the frame. File:Vancouver Brill trolleybus passing 1920 Toronto-Dominion Bank building on Hastings St in 1981.jpg|A trolley bus on Hastings Street in downtown in 1981

References

References

1. "Hastings Street in Vancouver and Burnaby".
2. "101 West Hastings Street: Urban Design Guidelines Administrative Report, ''City of Vancouver'', April 6, 2004".
3. Snyders, Tom. ''Namely Vancouver''. 2001. [[Arsenal Pulp Press]].