Landmark
Punjabi Market
Punjabi Market, Vancouver, BC V5W 2G5
Historic South Asian commercial strip of sari shops, sweet stores and jewellers along a few city blocks.
This guide to Vancouver's Punjabi Market walks Main Street from a 1993 street sign, the first Punjabi-language sign outside Asia, back to 1970, when Sucha Singh Claire and Harbans Kaur Claire opened a sari shop that grew into North America's oldest Little India. A Sikh community pushed east from Kitsilano by rising rents built the shop into a three-block stretch of over three hundred businesses by the 1980s. Listen for Hindi film music and the smell of cardamom drifting from the surviving storefronts as you walk.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.