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The Downtown Eastside (DTES) is a neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. One of the city's oldest neighbourhoods, the DTES is the site of a complex set of social issues, including disproportionately high levels of drug use, homelessness, poverty, crime, mental illness and …

We include the International Village ("Tinseltown/Crosstown") area as a special area covered in this directory due to their bordering of Chinatown, Gastown & Victory Square BIA catchment areas. Click on the map for a live google map of DTES.

The heart of Vancouver, Downtown offers a mix of historic and modern buildings lining the business-filled blocks between 5th Street and East Mill Plain Boulevard. Public art can be spotted on almost every corner, and year-round events keep Esther Short Park humming with activity. Vancouver’s Waterfront has grown to include the

Let this walking map be your guide to the area’s shops, restaurants, activities, historical attractions, tasting rooms, and art galleries. The area shown can easily be traversed by foot in less than 25 minutes, from one end to the other.

The Downtown Eastside (DTES) Plan, approved by City Council in 2014, provides a vision, policies, and strategies for the DTES that focuses on ways to improve the lives of low-income DTES residents and community members.

Discover the historic districts of Strathcona and the Downtown Eastside. The Downtown Eastside (DTES) encompassed two distinct areas within its boundaries.

See map, page 1, for zoning and sub-area boundaries. This chart is only a summary for background information. Please refer to the "Downtown Eastside/Oppenheimer Official Development Plan" for zoning and development regulations.

The Downtown Eastside and Strathcona are some of the first places in Vancouver settled by European, African, and Asian people. Many Indigenous people also live in this neighbourhood. Gastown, Chinatown, Japantown, Hogan's Alley and Victory Square are all …

From its early days as Vancouver’s first settlement, to its heyday as a bustling financial district, to its current infamy, the Downtown Eastside has defied pigeonholing. Bordered by Cambie Street in the west, Clark Drive in the east, the northern waterfront, and Venables Street in the south, no other neighbourhood in Canada can lay claim to ...