Lonsdale Quay Market
Waterfront public market of food stalls and local shops, built on a former World War Two shipyard.
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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.
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