Granville Island in Vancouver, BC

Granville Island is a peninsula and shopping district in Vancouver. It is located across from downtown Vancouver Peninsula, under the south end of Granville Street Bridge.  The city of Vancouver was once called Granville until it was renamed in 1886.  Granville Island was a reclamation project for an industrial area and explains the many buildings clad on all sides in corrugated tin.

The Granville Island Public Market features a farmers market, day vendors, and artist.  There are fifty permanent retailers in the market offering local products.  In addition, there are over one hundred Day Vendors on a rotating schedule.


Pastas of every kind are available, You don't need to cook.

 

 The Farmer's Market has been ongoing since the early 1990's - the first contemporary Farmer's Market in Vancouver.  It is a people friendly place and I have named it the 'Disneyland of Farmer's Markets'.

The very first tenant on Granville Island set the standard by
building a wood frame machine shop with corrugated tin
sides and today the same structure houses part of the
Granville Island Public Market.

                             



Of course, flower bouquets and potted plants.
One stop shopping.



Vegetables so beautiful that they don't
look real.

                                                                            

One of the various local Vancouver
culinary offerings in the market.

   

Dick rode over on his motorcycle to join us for Sunday morning
 coffee on the marina, great setting.  The market has gourmet
coffee and bakeries.  This is Isabel's Sunday morning routine
for the weekly shopping.  Harriet joined us on her first day of
retirement.  We will see her again in Manzanillo this season.



 

An abundance of fresh vegetables, grown locally and
the emphasis in Vancouver seems to be 'Farm to Table'.




Delicious, you have such a variety of take home.



This guy has quite a selection of maple syrup products.
He has a fun personality to go with it,



The Day Vendors have stalls throughout the
market selling a variety of Artisan cottage-industry foods
and unique hand-made crafts.
Rose Hip Hat Studio was my favorite.  This lovely lady has
been making hats all her life.  Shari Reed designs and hand
makes all the hats from vintage textiles and earthy fibres.
Visit her website       rosehiphats.com



Granville Island has maintained a community of craft studios,
including glassblowing, printmaking, fine art studio, master
sake maker, jewellers, potter's gallery and variety of other.
This young lady with Isabel is a third generation broom maker.
Just beautiful - I wanted to take home several.



Walking the area is fun with unusual shops,
Art Umbrellas, Woodworkers Co-op shop,
and vintage clothing.

       

Isabel and Phil on one of the docks on
Granville, Island with the Granville St.
bridge in the background.



La Baguette Bakery






There are a variety of restaurants on Granville Island along
with this colorful one on the dock.

Incredible exotic fruit, dragon fruit and passion fruit.

 

Performers must purchase a license and are
restricted to specific areas.  Performers include
musicians, jugglers, magicians and other street
performers.

  Granville Island has an extensive marina. This photo is a whale watching excursion.  There is also a boutique hotel, the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Performing arts theatres, fine art galleries and shopping areas.  There are two zones remaining from the island's industrial heyday: a machine shop and cement plant.  There are beautiful condos within a short walk - wonderful place to live but you can take a water taxi or small passenger ferry if you live across in the downtown area.  There is also a streetcar route operated by the Vancouver Downtown Historic Railway.