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3 Kids Market
1496 Cartwright St. Map 2 D5.
Tel (604) 689-8447. @ 50.
g False Creek Ferries, Aquabus.
Open 10am–6pm daily.
Closed Jan 1, Dec 25 & 26.
7 ∑ kidsmarket.ca
Children will be dazzled by
the Kids Market: two floors
filled with toys, games, gadgets,
clothing, and jewelry. The
more than 25 retailers here
provide an eclectic shopping
experience. Clownin’ Around
Magic is filled with puzzles
and magic tricks, Knotty Toys
View of False Creek, looking northeast toward Yaletown from Granville Island features handmade wooden
toys, Little Treasures “on the go”
1 False Creek ambience of Granville Island. sells beachwear, while The
Industrial design is a major Hairloft offers spa treatments
Map 3 B4.
focus within the school’s three and haircuts for girls. There
As the name suggests, False degree-granting Master’s is also the Adventure Zone,
Creek is not a creek at all but a programs. Over 1,700 full-time with a supervised play area,
saltwater inlet in the heart of the students come from across a picnic spot, and special
city, extending east from Burrard Canada and 50 countries events. Outside, Granville Island
Bridge to Science World (see worldwide to attend ECUAD. Waterpark is a joyful free-for-all
p217). In the 1850s, Captain G. H. Established in 1925, of fountains, nozzles, and sprays.
Richards sailed up this body of the school moved into
water, which originally covered three abandoned industrial
what is now Chinatown eastward buildings on Granville Island
to Clark Drive, hoping to find in 1980. The original building,
the Fraser River. Disappointed, on the north side of Johnston
he named it False Creek. Street, houses the Charles H.
The mudflats Richards saw Scott Gallery, which hosts
originally served as the winter regional, national, and
fishing grounds of the Squamish international exhibits of Pousse-café vessels at New-Small and
people. By the late 1800s, contemporary art. Student Sterling Studio Glass
sawmills had set up on the shows are held in the
south shore, followed by the Concourse and Media Galleries. 4 New-Small and
railyards of Yaletown (see The school’s newest Sterling Studio
pp224–5) on the north shore. addition on the south side
Today, paved seawalls flank of Johnston Street is a 58,000- Glass
both the north and south sq-ft- (5,400-sq-m-) structure 1440 Old Bridge St. Map 2 D5.
shores, allowing walkers, built for $14 million. Tel (604) 681-6730. @ 50.
bicyclists, and rollerbladers to Well-known alumni include g False Creek Ferries, Aquabus.
admire the views of downtown painters Jack Shadbolt and Open 10am–6pm Mon–Sat,
and the mountains. Arnold Belkin, artist Stan Douglas, 11am–5pm Sun. Closed Jan & Feb:
cartoonist Lynn Johnston, and Mon; Jan 1, Dec 25 & 26. 7 8 =
2 Emily Carr author Douglas Coupland. ∑ hotstudioglass.com
University of Art Many of the best-known
& Design glassblowers in BC have worked
for New-Small and Sterling
1399 Johnston St. Map 2 E5. Studio Glass since it opened
Tel (604) 844-3800. @ 50. here in 1982. Visitors can watch
g False Creek Ferries, Aquabus. owner David New-Small and
Open 10am–6pm daily. Closed mid- other artists create vases, bowls,
Dec–Jan 1. 7 ∑ ecuad.ca
and artwork using traditional
The unpainted corrugated techniques dating back
metal exterior of the famed hundreds of years.
Emily Carr University of Art & The studio specializes in
Design (ECUAD) is perfectly One of the galleries at Emily Carr University free-blown glass, made without
in keeping with the industrial of Art & Design molds using steel blowpipes
For hotels and restaurants see p290 and pp302–3

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