StreetSmart Vancouver Map by VanDam –– Laminated pocket size city street map to Vancouver, Burnaby and Lower Mainland with all attractions, sights, museums, hotels, parks and ferries, 2016 Edition

Book Synopsis: “VanDam's StreetSmart Vancouver maps all of Vancouver's attractions, neighborhoods, museums, hotels, parks, hiking trails, shorelines, and more all at an immensely legible scale of 1:7,500 complete with 3-D building illustrations. Clear information design allows you to read the map from three feet away and has earned VanDam maps a place in the MoMA Collection. The map is film-laminated, accordion folded and pocket-size. The map is laminated and easily fits into your pocket or purse. Dimensions: 4” x 9” closed, 9” x 24” open.

Contents: Vancouver Region Map” 1:2,000,000 Metro Vancouver/Lower Mainland Map 1:250,000; Vancouver Street Map 1:55,000; Downtown Vancouver Detail Map: 1:20,000; Stanley Park Detail Map: 1:35,000; Coal Harbor Detail Map: 1:15,000; Richmond-Delta-Surrey Map: 1:250,000; Vancouver Burnaby Map: 1:250,000;

StreetSmart Vancouver is so legible you will instantly understand how Downtown connects with Granville Island, Robson with Stanley Park, Point Grey with Kitsilano, English Bay with Yaletown, and get the overview of the Lower Mainland in context with Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands in the Salish Sea. StreetSmart Vancouver lets you navigate Vancouver with ease and confidence. So whether you want to hike from Coal Harbor to English Bay, take the ferry from Tsawwassen to Swartz Bay on Vancouver Island, are visiting friends on Bowen Island for the weekend, experience world class Chinese cuisine in Richmond, shop at Harry Rosen – for truly the best in menswear, visit the famed Andropology Museum at UBC or just go for a run in Stanley Park, our map covers it all.

StreetSmart Vancouver No other city boasts an urban rainforest equal to Stanley Park. Our map guides you on the 8 km run along the water’s edge from Coal Harbour to English Bay as well inland hikes with a stop in at the restaurants and teahouses that make this urban lung an unforgettable experience. The majesty of Douglas fir, Western red cedar and hemlock are breathtaking and hint at the riches of the rainforests on Vancouver Island and the remote Islands — Cortes for instance in Desolation Sound— where wolves run in packs and a bear may just feast at the other side of a lovely salmonberry bush.

StreetSmart Vancouver maps a city unique in many ways. It may be the only city on the continent to boast three thriving Chinese communities speaking different languages and forming distinct communities: These include the descendants of Chinese immigrant workers who built the trans Canada railroads in the 1880s — 5th and 6th generation Canadians, the Hong Kong ren who left Hong Kong before the handover to China in the late 1990 — who brought class, money and sophisticated cuisine — and the nouveau rich Mandarin billionaires — the most recent arrivals — who seem to prefer orange Lamborghinis. As a result the culinary offerings stretch from $3.00 street food in Richmond — check out North America’s biggest night market — to Bird Nest & Seafood Soup at Kirin for $130 on Alberni St. These days the lingua franca heard in the streets is Mandarin. Vancouver is rightfully known as the most sophisticated Asian food city in North America. StreetSmart Vancouver A local Vancouver arts impresario commented on our map cover as a perfect commentary on the most fundamental issue facing BC: who owns the land. As native people claim the entire province and absent any agreements between first Nation Peoples and the Canadian government this issue remains unresolved and central to understanding Vancouver and British Columbia. Get a StreetSmart Vancouver map and become an instant Vancouverite!”