Beach, saltwater pool and West Coast spirit
Kitsilano lives facing the water: Kits Beach looking out at the mountains, volleyball games, patios along West 4th Avenue and wooden houses buried under trees. It's laid-back Vancouver at its best, between sunrise yoga, neighbourhood cafés and long summer evenings on English Bay.
The neighbourhood is named after August Jack Khatsahlano, a Squamish chief whose family lived on the shores of False Creek. First an upscale streetcar suburb in the early 20th century, Kitsilano became the heart of Canadian counterculture in the 1960s and 70s, with communes and hippie shops on West 4th. Greenpeace was born out of that activist scene, in Vancouver, in 1971.
