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railway line which bisects the neighbourhood, has been purchased by the City of Vancouver and will be a series of community gardens, as well as a greenway for bicycles and pedestrians. The railway line has been removed and the right of way has been converted into a greenway for pedestrians and
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The stretch of businesses along W. 41st Ave between Balsam and Maple streets comprise the Kerrisdale Business Association, the longest running such association in Vancouver. Member businesses pool funds for festivities and general beautification of the area, including the hiring of a full-time
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Kerrisdale is a neighbourhood located in Vancouver's west side. It features a mix of newer houses and older bungalows as well as various low and mid-rise rental and condo apartment buildings in its northern section. The neighbourhood is a racial mix of
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Kerrisdale has a mix of white-collar professionals, high net worth individuals, and university students renting basement suites or more inexpensive apartment blocks to attend nearby post-secondary institutions such as
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and the Municipality of South Vancouver. Many of the streets and avenues surrounding this focal intersection developed around this time, with local landmarks such as
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is also generally thought of as part of Kerrisdale, thus some refer to the area as Kerrisdale-Marpole. The southwestern part of Kerrisdale is known as
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Projected average 2008 household income: $ 131,769 as compared with $ 75,854 and $ 79,798 for Vancouver and Metro Vancouver respectively.
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stop at Wilson Road (today West 41st Avenue). She chose to call it "Kerry's Dale", after the name of her family home, Kerrydale, in
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in the mid-1980s. This was partially due to the fears of Communist China taking over Hong Kong from the British in 1997 per the
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As of the 2016 community census, there were 13,975 people, 5,530 private households, and 3,930 families residing in Kerrisdale.
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Although formerly British in character and demographics, Kerrisdale began to experience an influx of affluent immigrants from
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Statistic includes total responses of "Chinese", "Korean", and "Japanese" under visible minority section on census.
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Statistic includes total responses of "Filipino" and "Southeast Asian" under visible minority section on census.
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Statistic includes all persons that did not make up part of a visible minority or an indigenous identity.
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Statistic includes total responses of "West Asian" and "Arab" under visible minority section on census.
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is home to the Kerrisdale Branch of the Vancouver Public Library, and Kerrisdale Pool.
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and rural feel and is located on the floodplain of the North Arm of the Fraser River.
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Welcome sign for the Kerrisdale shopping district, near 41st Avenue and West Boulevard
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Majury, N. (1994). "Signs of the times: Kerrisdale, a neighbourhood in transition."
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Footage of erection of the Kerrisdale Arena, City of Vancouver Archives
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manager R.H. Sterling asked Mrs. William McKinnon to name the
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Vancouver
British Columbia
European
East Asian Canadians
Arbutus Ridge
Marpole
Southlands
stables
British Columbia Electric Railway
interurban
Gairloch
Scotland
Point Grey
Vancouver
Point Grey Secondary School
Mother tongue
English
Chinese
Korean
Spanish
German
Japanese
Hong Kong
Sino-British Joint Declaration
Langara College
University of British Columbia
Panethnic
Panethnic

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