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The First Nations people living in Sun ahk, a village near today s Granville Island, were then only residents on Fairview. They thrived on fishing.
The unruffled tribal village of the First Nations people burst into an agitated community with the introduction of logging operations in the area sometime in the 1870s. Jerry Rogers, the lumberjack, cut down logs to feed the Hastings Sawmill. These logs were dragged by select Oxen from the forest down on Fairview s slopes toward landing ponds on False Creek. These are the King s Landing and Mackie s Landings, now the foot of today s Granville and Cambie streets .
The logging activities somehow settled for a while until the summer of 1887. At about this time, Lauchlan Hamilton, a surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railways , christened the place with name Fairview , as a matter of appreciating the place s serene and exquisite surroundings.
Soon access roads were made possible in the area following opening of the Granville Street Bridge in 1889. Two years after, in 1891, the Cambie Street Bridge was completed and streetcar service marked the start of house construction on the slopes of Fairview .
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The houses were constructed as people settled in the area; accommodation for workers in sawmills and other factories started to mushroom around False Creek . As Vancouver s community steadily grew, Fairview was chosen as site for the new Vancouver High School, the Model School and the new Vancouver General Hospital . These historical landmarks were all completed in 1905. As the building boom peaked in 1912, the False Creek shoreline was stuck with smokestack industries. At the end of 1918, False Creek assailed its leadership as Vancouver s home of largest ship building industry.
The 1970s had brought radical changes to Fairview . Its waterfront was transformed and redeveloped into an open area market and cultural centre on Granville Island , with low rise buildings along the shore, making it Fairview s largest park. But, in the 1980s, almost all original houses and buildings along Fairview slopes were torn down and replaced with apartments.
Today, Fairview depicts a detailed outline of modern living as high-rise buildings spread along the Broadway corridor, as it stretches east-west through its core. South of the Broadway centre is the Vancouver General Hospital complex, said to be one of the largest medical establishments in North America. Its upscale shops are on the western Broadway while the eastern part is the City Square Shopping Centre , a stone s throw from the City Hall.
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