Mount Pleasant

Mount Pleasant is a neighborhood situated within Vancouver City, British Columbia. It expands from Great Northern Way to 2nd and to 16th and Kingsway, as well as from Cambie Street to Clark Drive. Mount Pleasant was once defined as a working class district. Ever since the 1980s it has gone through a gentrification process. The regions all-around the junction of Main Street and Broadway are more and more being known as SoMa or South Main. Moreover, the City Hall of Vancouver is also located here.

The SkyTrain extension known as the Canada Line serves the Mount Pleasant district. It runs from the International Airport of Vancouver to Downtown Vancouver.

Considered amongst the more recent up and coming districts, Mount Pleasant is among the flourishing communities which surround the downtown peninsula of Vancouver. Numerous young homeowners and professionals, along with several growing families give it its vibrancy and call this area home.

Amongst the areas former stream helped to develop a lot of Mount Pleasant. The stream attracted lots of breweries from 1888 to 1912, and later was referred to as Brewery Creek. Street cars first began being used in order to transport people during the year 1890, which traveled as far south as 1st and Main. In conjunction with the connecting routes of Main and Kingsway, Brewery Creek became the centre of commercialism and industry for the neighborhood of Mount Pleasant. A substantial population growth expanded by 1897, centered on Broadway and Main Street, enabling commuters to access the businesses of the city centre, False Creek and brewery Creek areas. This accessibility provided the draw for a lot of working families which inhabited the region just below Broadway and in this sense; the region could be referred to as Vancouver's very first suburb.