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  Vancouver-Mount Pleasant

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Established October 17, 1991
Disbanded October 19, 2024
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Last ModifiedCampari_007 December 08, 2024 12:47pm
DescriptionThis riding takes in area in the north-central part of Vancouver.

It runs between Burrard Inlet in the north and East 16th Avenue/Grandview Highway in the south; between Victoria Drive/Commercial Drive/Powell Street/Victoria Drive in the east and Main Street/Union Street/Quebec Street/Keefer Street/Taylor Street/West Pender Street/Homer Street/West Cordova Street/Howe Street in the west.

Chinatown, Gastown, Strathcona, the Downtown Eastside and Mount Pleasant are communities in riding.

The riding includes single room occupancy residences of the Downtown Eastside, a residential district of bungalows on small lots, scattered strips of low rise apartments and condos.

In the 2006 census, the immigrant population was 39%; the visible minority population was 44%; 22% Chinese.

Rentals exceed owned dwellings by 74% to 26%.

This riding has the lowest average family income in the province.

In 2008 redistribution, kept 96% of the riding.

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