" The Winter Market " is a science fiction short story written by William Gibson and published as part of his Burning Chrome short story collection. The story was commissioned in 1985 by Vancouver Magazine , who stipulated that Gibson – who at the time was "unquestionably the leading Vancouver author on the international literary scene" – set it in the city (thereby making it unique among the author's works until 2007, when he set the final third of Spook Country in and around the Port of Vancouver ).
41-402: The market of the title was modelled on that of Granville Island , though in a state of bohemian decay. As the author commented in a 2007 blog post: "Vancouver's Granville Island, centered around Granville Island Market (produce and food fair) is a very successful (and pleasant) retrofit of an under-bridge urban island that previously was heavily industrial. When the story was written, the retrofit
82-515: A 2040 plan to redevelop the island, in part because the Emily Carr University was going to move off the island. The Granville Island Public Market was established in 1979 as a place where farmers and other food vendors could sell to consumers. It operates year-round in an enclosed facility where visitors can purchase fresh produce, meat, fish and seafood, cheeses and other products, many locally sourced. There are generally 50 vendors selling
123-529: A brickworks on the shore of Coal Harbour, and their land claim was originally staked with the hopeful intent of mining for porcelain clays, but the grade of clay was not fine enough for that use. When those plans failed (a lack of transportation being a key factor) they sold a good portion of the area, by then known as the Brickmaker's Claim, to Victoria investors who in turn tried to promote its development as New Liverpool. The only thing that happened with that scheme
164-405: A distinct failure to connect, while they express typical genre concerns regarding this type of theoretical mind transfer ; whether or not the online consciousness really is the same individual, and whether or not it was moral to allow this to happen. In this particular tale, Lise's original body is defective and failing, partially due to a congenital disease, and partially due to drug abuse . Hence,
205-455: A wide range of items, from Mexican, Asian, Greek and deli food to candy and snacks. A large scenic outdoor eating area adjacent to it overlooks downtown Vancouver. The Market attracts both local residents and tourists, and includes a "kids' market" for children. Granville Island Brewing Co. is a beer company founded on Granville Island in 1984, but whose main base of operations was moved to Kelowna , British Columbia sometime later. In 2009 it
246-664: Is a neighbourhood in Vancouver , British Columbia, Canada, located between the Coal Harbour neighbourhood and the financial and central business districts of Downtown Vancouver to the east, Stanley Park to the northwest, the English Bay to the west, and Kitsilano to the southwest across the False Creek opening. The West End is not to be confused with the West Side (which denotes
287-487: Is adjacent to the downtown core business and financial districts, with traffic calmed streets punctuated by concrete islands, sidewalk barricades, and mini-parks and many residential heritage buildings including The Manhattan, The Beaconsfield, The Beverly and The Queen Charlotte. Close to 45,000 people of all ages, incomes, ethnicities, and sexual orientations live in the West End. The age group of 20–39 years consistently ranks
328-624: Is home to several theatre companies, including as the Arts Club Theatre Company , Arts Umbrella, Axis Theatre Company, Boca Del Lupo, Carousel Theatre for Young People, Ruby Slippers Production Company, and the Vancouver Theatre Sports League improv troupe. Canada's oldest physical hammock shop, the Hamuhk Hangout Place, has operated on Granville Island since 1995. West End, Vancouver The West End
369-680: Is particularly famous among visitors for Robson Street . It was historically known as the Robsonstrasse , for the postwar period when it was a hub for immigrants from Germany , and was home to owner operated boutiques, schnitzel houses and other bistro-style dining establishments until the 1980s when the transition to the current fashionable shopping and dining area stretching from Burrard Street to Jervis Street, began. Many restaurants and shops can also be found along Denman Street closer to Stanley Park , and Davie Street between Burrard and Jervis streets. Numerous parks and beaches can be found throughout
410-744: The Locus novelette category, third in the Interzone fiction category, and joint second in the Science Fiction Chronicle novelette category. Granville Island Granville Island is a peninsula and shopping district in the Fairview neighbourhood of Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada , across False Creek from Downtown Vancouver , under the south end of the Granville Street Bridge . Formerly an industrial manufacturing area, it
451-650: The Vancouver Downtown Historic Railway operated between Granville Island and Science World. The streetcar is now permanently shut down. The peninsula was originally used by the Musqueam and Squamish peoples as a fishing area. A village was established in the area named sən̓aʔqʷ in the Hunquminum language and Sen̓áḵw in the Squamish language . The city of Vancouver was called Granville until it
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#1732869487812492-556: The 1970s, residents banded together to calm traffic that was using the neighbourhood as a shortcut between downtown Vancouver and the suburbs of the North Shore, across the Lions' Gate Bridge . They also staged a successful, yet destructive "Shame the Johns" campaign to rid the West End of the sex work that was then visible in the neighbourhood. This campaign was formed by a group of politicians called
533-695: The Canadian Institute of Planners announced winners of its fifth annual Great Places in Canada contest. A jury of seven professional planners named the West End as the Great Neighbourhood. Juror Jaspal Marwah MCIP, RPP stated that "the West End makes it easy, safe and inviting for residents to walk and bike to work, to access thriving local businesses and to explore Vancouver's beaches, trails and Stanley Park. Transit access, traffic calming, street furniture, treed promenades, pocket parks and public spaces reflect
574-562: The Concerned Residents of the West End (CROWE), prominently containing cisgender white gay men, who aided in the formation of a 1984 injunction granted by then-B.C. Supreme Court Justice Allan McEachern. This injunction banned sex workers from working west of Granville Street, which forcibly displaced them away from the relative safety and community support of Davie Street . Following this, they were forced into Yaletown , then Mount Pleasant , where they were repeatedly protested by "Shame
615-473: The Davie mansion) were built in then remoter areas of the West End as the financial district's land values displaced the high-toned residences. This role was ultimately dropped with the increasing vogue for the upscale Shaughnessy neighbourhood, and as middle-class housing of various kinds began to fill out the West End. As the city grew, the West End became a transitory place for new arrivals from elsewhere in Canada,
656-640: The Island was occupied, mostly by similar corrugated-tin factories. During the Great Depression , one of Vancouver's several hobo jungles sprang up on the False Creek flats opposite Granville Island's north shore. " Shackers " lived on the island, in town, or in floathouses , and survived by fishing and beachcombing and sold salmon , smelt , and wood door to door or at the public market on Main Street. They were basically self-sufficient and were left alone. During
697-462: The Johns vigilantes", down East Broadway, and eventually into the Downtown Eastside , where already vulnerable sex workers are more open to violence and abuse than ever before. These displacements were a worsened repetition of the early erasers that happened on Dupont and Alexander Street. Further, this displacement largely targeted transgender, two-spirit and First Nations women, replicated
738-569: The Second World War, Wright's Canadian Ropes on the island was Canada's biggest manufacturer of heavy-duty wire rope. Their Green Heart product was supplied to forestry and mining industries. A fire in 1953 gutted their Granville Island factory so they moved to south Vancouver in 1956. In 1972, a federal order-in-council assigned management of the 14-hectare site to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). The federal government invested $ 24.7 million there between 1973 and 1982. In 1979,
779-502: The United Kingdom, and later for immigrants from other countries, establishing a tradition of diversity. Following World War II, a significant German commercial community emerged along Robson Street , giving birth to the nickname Robsonstrasse , a name still occasionally used in marketing despite the loss of its original meaning. West End residents have been very active in shaping their neighbourhood and maintaining its liveability. In
820-470: The West End including Alexandra Park, Cardero Park, Nelson Park, Stanley Park and Sunset Beach. These parks range in size from 0.22 hectares (Morton Park) to over 406 hectare (Stanley Park). A portion of the Stanley Park Seawall promenade runs along the waterfront from Burrard Bridge to Ceperly Park. The area is also known for English Bay Beach, a large park on English Bay which is thronged during
861-571: The West End is about 12%, compared to 17% for the City of Vancouver. Statistics also show that the West End is home to many children — the downtown peninsula now has more children than traditional family neighbourhoods such as West Point Grey or Kerrisdale . Lord Roberts Annex offers kindergarten to grade 3. The student population of Lord Roberts Elementary School (k-grade 7) represents 43 countries and 37 languages. King George Secondary School (grades 8-12) celebrated 100 years in 2014. The West End
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#1732869487812902-410: The West End. Like all of Vancouver, the West End was originally a forested wilderness. The area was purchased in 1862 by John Morton, Samuel Brighouse, and William Hailstone, three men known as the "Three Greenhorn Englishmen", or just the " Three Greenhorns ", a nickname they earned from others who thought they were buying a massive plot of wild land at an inflated price. The men had plans to establish
943-435: The act of leaving behind the original physical form is potentially one of escape into an untainted existence. However, the story undercuts this simplistic reading by convincingly evoking Lise's humanity and her longing for a "normal" relationship to her body. According to the analysis of critic Pramod Nayar, the story "depicts the body as a vehicle for experiencing dreams edited into Hollywood thrillers". Critic David Seed saw
984-598: The annual Celebration of Light fireworks display each year mid-summer. St. Paul's Hospital, one of Vancouver's largest and oldest health facilities, sits at the neighbourhood's eastern edge on Burrard Street. Community Centres in the West End include the Vancouver Aquatic Centre, West End Community Centre, Coal Harbour Community Centre and Barclay Manor. Depending on the centre, they offer swimming pools, gyms, fitness centres and an ice rink, as well as many meeting and all-purpose rooms for rent. On November 4, 2015,
1025-531: The bridge, that ran directly overhead, was the name that stuck. The first tenant, B.C. Equipment Ltd., set the standard by building a wood-framed machine shop, clad on all sides in corrugated tin , at the Island's western end. (Today the same structure houses part of the Granville Island Public Market.) The company repaired and assembled heavy equipment for mining and forestry industries and used barges for shipping. By 1923, virtually every lot on
1066-689: The character of Rubin as a "thinly disguised" incarnation of performance artist Mark Pauline of Survival Research Laboratories . The story was critically well-received, garnering nominations for the Hugo Award for Best Novelette , the Nebula Award for Best Novelette , the "short-form, English" Prix Aurora award, and the British Science Fiction Association award for best short story. It also finished highly in several science fiction magazines' annual readers polls in 1987, coming fourth in
1107-462: The colonial practices and dispossession of land from the Musqueam, Burrard, and Squamish First Nations. The West End is bordered by downtown on the one side, Stanley Park on the other and by water on two. The West End is home to a mixed population, old and young, of Canadians, immigrants and international transient residents. Like other downtown neighbourhoods, the West End is very densely populated. It
1148-494: The community of Clayburn , now a neighbourhood of Abbotsford . Later, with the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway , with its terminus at nearby Coal Harbour , the West End became Vancouver's first upscale neighbourhood, home to the richest railroad families. Many of these families lived along Georgia Street, known at that time as "Blue Blood Alley" for all the posh mansions built there. Later mansions (including
1189-522: The federal and provincial governments converted a 50,000 square foot building to the Public Market. In 1980, the Emily Carr University of Art & Design was added to the island. Ron Basford , the Minister responsible for CMHC, was referred to as Mr. Granville and was later recognized with the naming of Ron Basford Park on Granville Island. In 2016, the federal government announced a commitment to develop
1230-541: The first, unofficial, attempt was made to stabilize the sandbar by driving piles around the perimeter in order to create some free real estate. The Federal government put a stop to the work as a menace to navigation, but the piles remain visible in a photo taken in 1891. In 1915, with the port of Vancouver growing, the newly formed Vancouver Harbour Commission approved a reclamation project in False Creek for an industrial area. A 14-hectare (35-acre) island, connected to
1271-417: The largest at 48%, followed by 40-64 at 34%, 65+ at 13% and under 19 at 6%. Containing 7.4% of the City's population, the West End welcomed 14% of new Vancouverites between 2001 and 2006. The West End is also home to Western Canada's largest LGBTQ community. Vancouver's gay village , called Davie Village , is centred primarily on Davie Street between Burrard and Bute. The share of single-parent families in
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1312-546: The mainland by a combined road and rail bridge at its south end, was to be built. Almost 760,000 cubic metres (1,000,000 cu yd) of fill was dredged largely by a man named Alvin Kingston, from the surrounding waters of False Creek to create the island under the Granville Street Bridge. The total cost for the reclamation was $ 342,000. It was originally called Industrial Island, but Granville Island, named after
1353-588: The term originated and remains used by Vancouverites to refer to everything from Burrard Street to Stanley Park, including the Stanley Park Neighbourhood west of Denman Street and the Coal Harbour Neighbourhood. Coal Harbour Neighbourhood is officially designated as west of Burrard and to the north of West Georgia, although the newly built areas between West Pender Street and the waterfront are expressly "Coal Harbour" and not considered part of
1394-549: The western half of the non-downtown part of Vancouver city to the south) or West Vancouver ("West Van"), a separate municipality (conversely, and to the confusion of some, "East Van", "the East End", and "the East Side" all denote East Vancouver ). The definition of the "official neighbourhood" of the West End, according to the city, is the area west of Burrard Street, east of Lost Lagoon, and south of West Georgia Street. Historically
1435-624: Was a subdivision plan registered with the Land Titles office in New Westminster. Another name used for the property was the Brighouse Estate (Brighouse as a name came to refer to a particular part of Richmond , where "Greenhorn" J. Morton also owned property). One of the partners, observant that brick was a valuable building commodity despite the abundance of timber in the region, moved the brick-clay operations to Sumas Mountain , establishing
1476-738: Was filmed in the area. The Vancouver International Children's Festival, the Vancouver Fringe Festival , and the Vancouver Writers Fest are held there. False Creek Ferries and Aquabus provide ferry service from Granville Island to Downtown Vancouver , Yaletown , False Creek , the West End , and Vanier Park . Other water transportation options include a water taxi service to Bowen Island provided by English Bay Launch . WESTCOAST Sightseeing and Vancouver Trolley Hop-On, Hop-Off services have stops there. Between 1998 and 2011,
1517-550: Was first mapped by Captain George Henry Richards in the British Boundary Commission's naval expedition in 1858–59, and the island today conforms roughly to the size and shape documented at that time. A British Admiralty Chart of 1893 shows the island in greater detail and conforming even more accurately to today's Granville Island. Shortly after the creation of the original Granville Street bridge in 1889,
1558-547: Was named after Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville . It includes a public market , restaurants, a marina , a hotel , the False Creek Community Centre , numerous artists' studios and workshops, and various performing arts theatres, including the Arts Club Theatre Company and Carousel Theatre . It was the location for the finale of the film Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011). The Great Canadian Pottery Throw Down , first broadcast in 2024,
1599-446: Was purchased by Molson's Brewery and continues to brew small batches of its varieties at the original Granville Island brewing site. It offers beer tasting and brewery tours. Ocean Concrete is the island's longest-established tenant, since 1917. In 2014, OSGEMEOS (Portuguese for THE TWINS), consisting of brother duo Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo, made the concrete silos the site of their ongoing mural project, 'Giants'. Granville Island
1640-410: Was recent, and I dirtied it up for requisite punky near-future effect." The story primarily concerns human relationships and their tenuous and problematic qualities by deploying the concept of technological immortality , in which one's consciousness is separated from the body and "uploaded" into a supercomputer, where it continues to think and function on its own. Characters in the story are marked by
1681-402: Was renamed in 1886, but the former name was kept and given to Granville Street , which spanned the small inlet known as False Creek. False Creek in the late 19th century was more than twice today's size, and its tidal flats included a large permanent sandbar over which spanned the original, rickety, wooden Granville Street bridge. This sandbar, which would eventually become Granville Island,