William Mackie, a gold miner and a logger was the first non-native settler sometime in 1874 where he claimed 65 hectares in the area, later known as Douglas Park. But the place got its name after CPR Engineer Henry Cambie.
South Cambie s development started with the building of houses from 1926 until the 1950s when its last remaining public land was released by the federal government for development. The area, however, started to boom at the turn of the 19 th century.
What was once a place to oxen, loggers, ranchers and elks had then turned into a growing city of residential districts.
