Burrard Street is a major thoroughfare in

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, Canada. It is the central street of

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and the Financial District. The street is named for

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, located at its northern terminus, which in turn is named for Sir Harry Burrard-Neale. The street starts at

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near the

, then runs southwest through downtown Vancouver. It crosses

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via the

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. South of False Creek, on what used to be called Cedar Street before the completion of the bridge in 1932, the street runs due south until the intersection with West 16th Avenue. The intersection of Burrard Street and

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is considered to be the centrepoint of Downtown Vancouver, along with the more tourist-oriented and upscale shopping-spirited intersection of Burrard Street and

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to the south. At and due northeast of the centre is the heart of the Financial District. Further down closer to

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stands the historic

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, an

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masterpiece, opened in 1930, two years before the Art Deco pylons of the Burrard Bridge at the opposite end of the street. Finally at the Harbour lies

and the Vancouver Convention Centre. Nearer to Burrard Bridge is located St. Paul's Hospital, established on Burrard Street in 1894. Burrard Street served as the dividing line between the two district lots laid out on the downtown peninsula in the second half of the 19th century: District Lot 185 (now West End) and District Lot 541 (granted to the

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). The two grids were oriented differently, with the result that only every third northwest-southeast street in DL185 actually continuing southeast beyond Burrard into DL541. Burrard currently serves as the boundary between West End and Downtown, as defined by the City of Vancouver.Vancouver - communityWEBpages - West End
/ref> Burrard Street is served by SkyTrain's

Burrard Station Burrard is an underground station on the Expo Line of Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system. The station is located in Downtown Vancouver on Burrard Street, where Melville and Dunsmuir Streets meet, and is the western terminus of t ...

, located underground between the intersections with Melville and Dunsmuir Streets in the heart of the Financial District. Along the downtown portion, there is a

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on the southwest-bound direction towards the Burrard Bridge.

Major intersections

References

External links

- CBC video on Burrard Bridge bikelanes
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