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Shopping in Vancouver DIRECTORY

The shops in Vancouver and surrounding areas showcase Department Stores
goods and fashions from every continent. Funky boutiques and Shopping Centers
and vintage clothing stores abound in Gastown, as do shops The Bay
specializing in First Nations art. Other shopping districts also 674 Granville St. Map 3 A2.
offer myriad goods, from upscale furniture to kitchenware Tel (604) 681-6211.
and specialty items. Metropolis at Metrotown
4700 Kingsway, Burnaby.
Tel (604) 438-4715.
in an Edwardian Baroque-style Pacific Centre
building that was formerly a 701 W Georgia St. Map 3 A2.
post office. On the North Shore, Tel (604) 688-7235.
Lonsdale Quay Market (see
p229) offers a harbor view Park Royal Shopping Centre
as well as a food market and 2002 Park Royal South, West
boutiques, while Park Royal Vancouver. Tel (604) 925-9576.
Shopping Centre (see p228) Holt Renfrew
Window display at a clothing store on houses a multitude of shops 737 Dunsmuir St. Map 3 A2.
Vancouver’s Granville Island under two roofs. Tel (604) 681-3121.
Shopping Districts Sinclair Centre
Specialty Shops 757 W Hastings St. Map 3 A2.
Robson Street (see p216) is Tel (604) 488-0672.
Vancouver’s major shopping On the funkier side is John
promenade. Specialty shops Fluevog, with its unique boot Specialty Shops
and boutiques line the streets and shoe designs for both men
of Gastown, Kitsilano, Kerrisdale, and women. Leone houses Birks Jewellers
Yaletown, and Ambleside sophis ticated boutiques, 698 W Hastings St. Map 3 A2.
(see p228). South Granville with fashions from Dior, Prada, Tel (604) 669-3333.
is home to upscale clothing and Versace, among others. Inuit Gallery
and furnishing stores. Granville Internationally known Roots 206 Cambie St. Map 3 B2.
Island (see pp220–21) offers an offers Canadian design in both Tel (604) 688-7323.
array of shops and galleries, as casual and athletic wear, as
well as a huge food market. well as quality leather goods. John Fluevog
Visit Chinatown and the Punjabi The elegant selection at Birks 837 Granville St. Map 2 F3.
market around Main Street Jewellers includes, along with Tel (604) 688-2828.
and 49th Avenue for ethnic fine jewelry, pens, watches, Leone
shopping. Richmond (see crystal, and classic gifts. 757 W Hastings St. Map 3 A2.
p232) is known for its The Inuit Gallery, one Tel (604) 683-1133.
Asian shopping malls. of several stores in
Gastown specializing Rogers’ Chocolates
in First Nations art, The Landing, 389 Water St.
Department Sign for Lonsdale carries high-quality Map 3 B2. Tel (604) 676-3452.
Stores and Quay Market Inuit prints and
Shopping Centers Roots
soapstone carvings, 1001 Robson St. Map 2 F2.
Most of the city’s shopping and Northwest Coast First Tel (604) 683-4305.
centers are anchored by major Nations masks, bentwood
department stores. The Bay boxes, prints, and jewelry.
sells quality Canadian and Chocoholics will love Rogers’ What to Buy
international brand-name Chocolates, which first opened Quality Canadian-made
clothing, and its own clothing in 1885. There are two locations fashions, leatherwear, and
lines. Holt Renfrew features in Vancouver: one in Gastown handbags are good buys in
premier designer labels such and the other on Granville Island. Vancouver. First Nations and
as Alexander McQueen, Inuit art – including carvings,
Gucci, and Mulberry. prints, masks, and jewelry – is
At the 140-store Pacific available at many stores and
Centre and the 500-store gallery shops. BC jade jewelry
Metropolis at Metrotown, is also popular, as are Cowichan
BC’s largest shopping mall, knit sweaters. Traditionally
goods range from brand-name smoked wild sockeye salmon,
fashions to smoked BC salmon. often packaged in decorative
The smaller Sinclair Centre Store in Gastown selling western-style cedar boxes, is another West
features international fashions boots and other leather goods Coast specialty.

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