Along the Bluff
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, this spot was the edge of a bluff overlooking Burrard Inlet, along which, in the 1890s, the young city’s most influential residents built impressive homes. Many were Canadian Pacific Railway officials, including Richard Marpole, Henry Abbott, Williams Salsbury and Dr. William Lefevre. As the port grew and the city’s commercial area expanded west from Gastown, these residents left their homes behind for new ones in the West End and the “invigorating breezes of English Bay”. The exclusive Vancouver Club and Terminal City Club remain today on Hastings Street, as close to the offices of their members as they were to their homes more than a century ago.
Vancouver Heritage Foundation
Attribution: Jennie Eggleston