Lonsdale Quay Market

This guide to Lonsdale Quay Market in North Vancouver starts with the shipyard once beneath your feet, where Burrard Dry Dock and North Van Ship Repair turned out Victory Ships for Allied convoys during the Second World War. You'll hear how the yard fell silent when the war ended and sat as an industrial scar for decades, until a new SeaBus route in 1977 started dropping thousands of commuters at this exact spot. Listen for how a newspaper idea and a wave of resident letters turned that old shipyard land into something else entirely.