Once part of an Indian Reserve, Kitsilano s development was only noticed in the late 1940s. Originally, the place was among densely forested area filled with wild life despite unabated logging.
Actually, it was the Canadian Pacific Railway and the B.C. Electric Railway s streetcar line on 4 th Avenue to Alma and 1932 Burrard Bridge that gave birth of Kitsilano. The rooming houses built during the World War II remained that way until the 1960s when the area became known among university students from North America.
Although as early as 1907, residents in Kitsilano had been fighting for sewers, tram services and other infrastructure, these clamor were not much given attention until in the 1970s when rezoning of the area has taken place.
It was practically the Kit residents that fought tooth and nail to develop their small village as local officials initiate area development programs for residential, commercial and industrial zone along the slope of Kitsilano.
Today, rapid economic development is undergoing at the Kitsilano district, now considered as a growing center in Vancouver .
