Mount Pleasant is a neighbourhood in the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, stretching from Cambie Street to Clark Drive and from Great Northern Way and 2nd, to 16th and Kingsway. The neighbourhood, once characterized as working-class, has undergone a process of gentrification since the early 1990s, including the area around the Main Street and Broadway intersection.
The neighbourhood is served by the Canada Line, an extension of SkyTrain from Downtown Vancouver to Vancouver International Airport.
It is home to a number of artists and writers, including CBC personalities Ian Hanomansing and Tod Maffin, The Tyee editor David Beers and documentary filmmaker Peter W. Klein.
History Mount Pleasant owes much of its origins to a former stream. The stream attracted a number of breweries from 1888 to 1912, hence it became known as Brewery Creek. In 1890, the first street cars arrived; as far south as 1st and Main. Brewery Creek, in conjunction with the connecting routes of Main and Kingsway, became the centre of industry and commercialism for the district of Mt. Pleasant. By 1897, there was a substantial population growth centred on Broadway and Main Street. The ability to commute to the City Centre and the industries of Brewery Creek and False Creek provided the draw for many working families that now populated the area below Broadway. In a sense, Mount Pleasant can be called Vancouver's "first suburb".
The area high above False Creek was named "Mount Pleasant" in 1888, after the Irish birthplace of Jane Fortune Kemp the wife of Henry Valentine Edmonds. Edmonds, clerk of the municipal council in New Westminster, was the original owner of much of Mount Pleasant.
Demographics As of 2016, Mt. Pleasant has 32,955 people. 11.3% of the population is under the age of 20; 49.3% is between 20 and 39; 30.9% is between 40 and 64; and 8.6% is 65 or older. 69.9% of Mt. Pleasant residents speak English as a first language, 7.7% speak a Chinese language, and 3.0% speak Tagalog. The median household income is $66,299 and 15.7% of its population lives in low-income households. The unemployment rate is 4.7%.
+ Panethnic groups in the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood (2001−2016)Panethnicgroup201620062001 European 20,970 13,510 12,805 East Asian 4,700 3,270 4,110 Southeast Asian 2,675 3,410 4,145 South Asian 1,075 650 760 Indigenous 975 865 1,025 Latin American 435 370 315 African 365 390 615 Middle Eastern 345 435 310 Other/Multiracial 700 395 300 Total responses 32,230 23,300 24,400 Total population 32,955 23,615 24,535
See also Dude Chilling Park, a public art installation in the district, in Guelph Park
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Footnotes
Brewery Creek Urban Study, 1985 by Barb Johnston and Denis Turco . https://web.archive.org/web/20070214021230/http://www.lesliefield.com/bchs/
External links
Mount Pleasant Electoral District City of Vancouver - Mount Pleasant Portal Mount Pleasant Community Calendar Mount Pleasant Business Improvement Association