The region is popularly known as Khupkhahpav av, a Squamish word for cedar trees. Nothing s more appropriate than calling the place Grandview - Woodland. The place was first mentioned in Pauline Johnson s Legend of Vancouver .
Grandview s enormous cedar trees provided native people their much needed materials for homes, tools, masts, canoes, baskets and clothing. Without these trees, one could not imagine how the earliest settlers could have survived through centuries until the area was opened to explorers in the 1800s.
In the 1890s, the Cedar Cover Brewery was the first industry to be established there. It was followed by the Cedar Cover Saw and Planning Mills.
As a coastal town, Grandview remained unsettled until 1891 when an interurban line to New Westminster was constructed. Actually, Grandview got its name from an enthusiastic resident who nailed a signboard Grand View on his yard at the interurban stop (today its near the intersection of Commercial Drive and 1 st Avenue) in 1892.
