Hastings Street (Vancouver)

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For the Brazzaville album Hastings Street, see Hastings Street (album).

Hastings Street, Vancouver. 1945. Looking west from Granville Street.

Hastings Street is one of the most important east-west traffic corridors in Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,^[1] with most of it being part of Highway 7A. In the central business district of Downtown Vancouver it is known as West Hastings Street; at Carrall Street it becomes East Hastings Street and runs eastwards through East Vancouver and Burnaby. In Burnaby, there is no east-west designation. The street ends in Westridge, a neighbourhood at the foot of Burnaby Mountain where it joins the recently built Burnaby Mountain Parkway and diverges from the continuation of Highway 7A as the Barnet Highway, to Port Moody.

Formally named in 1885 for Rear-Admiral George Fowler Hastings of the Royal Navy,^[2] the street runs past such well-known Vancouver landmarks as the Marine Building, the Vancouver Club, Sinclair Centre, Harbour Centre, Dominion Building and Victory Square and the Woodward's building, then through the heart of Vancouver's historic original downtown, today the troubled Downtown Eastside. Through the East End, the street forms one of the commercial cores for Vancouver's Italian community in a mixed-ethnicity retail area in the area of Nanaimo Drive, 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.

West Hastings, looking east from Harbour Centre.	200 Block East Hastings Street (North side) near Main Street, Downtown Eastside, Vancouver.	East Hastings Street, Vancouver. Looking east from Victoria Drive.	East Hastings Street in East Vancouver, between Cassiar St. and Skeena St.
Hastings Street in Lochdale, North Burnaby; Westridge in background.	Hastings Street joins Inlet Drive (on the left) while continuing uphill towards Simon Fraser University. Eagle Ridge and Westridge in the distance.

[edit] References

^ 101 West Hastings Street: Urban Design Guidelines Administrative Report, City of Vancouver, April 6, 2004
^ Snyders, Tom. Namely Vancouver. 2001. Arsenal Pulp Press

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