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43 verified places and the 24 soonest upcoming events, in one view. Every card is labelled Place or Event; counts on the chips are the real card counts below.

Astra Lumina at Stanley Park

Tue 3 Nov – Thu 31 Dec

Stanley Park Railway · Vancouver

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BlackGate

Tue 3 Nov 2026 · 7:30 PM

Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre · Vancouver

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Candlelight: Tribute to Fleetwood Mac

Tue 3 Nov – Sat 27 Feb 2027 · 6:30 PM

Kerrisdale Presbyterian Church · Vancouver

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Canada Place

📍 Coal Harbour

Vancouver's sail-roofed waterfront landmark and cruise ship terminal on Burrard Inlet — worth the walk around its promenade for harbour, mountain and ship views, and as the home of Flyover.

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Capilano Suspension Bridge Park

📍 North Vancouver

A rainforest canyon park built around the suspension bridge over the Capilano River, with the Cliffwalk and Treetops Adventure canopy walkways included in the same single-day ticket.

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Every River Has a Mouth

Tue 3 Nov – Sun 14 Feb 2027

Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art · Vancouver

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Global Summit AI Vancouver 2026 · Fall

Tue 3 Nov 2026 · 8:30 AM

Nest Catering & Conferences · Vancouver

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Jeffrey Martin with Sam Weber

Tue 3 Nov 2026 · 9:00 PM

The WISE Hall · Vancouver

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FlyOver Canada

📍 Coal Harbour

A roughly 25-minute immersive flying-theatre experience at Canada Place, with rides starting every 15–20 minutes, that simulates soaring over Canadian landscapes using motion, wind, mist and scent.

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Granville Island

📍 Granville Island

A former industrial peninsula under the Granville Street Bridge turned arts and food district, anchored by the indoor Public Market's fresh food, produce and farmers' stalls, with artisan studios, theatres and restaurants around it.

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King Buffalo with L.A. Witch

Tue 3 Nov 2026 · 9:00 PM

The Pearl · Vancouver

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LSBC's 11th Annual Invest in BC presented by Lumira Ventures

Tue 3 Nov – Wed 4 Nov · 8:30 AM

Vancouver Convention Centre West Building · Vancouver

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Meadows of Stone

Tue 3 Nov 2026 · 7:30 PM

Firehall Arts Centre · Vancouver

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Grouse Mountain

📍 North Vancouver

A year-round mountaintop reached by the Red Skyride or Blue Grouse Gondola, where one admission ticket covers the ride up and whichever mountaintop attractions are operating that day, with views back over the city.

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Science World

📍 False Creek

A hands-on science centre inside the geodesic dome on False Creek, with interactive galleries and live demonstrations designed to be explored by doing rather than just looking.

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Plini - An Unnameable Desire North American Tour

Tue 3 Nov 2026 · 6:00 PM

Commodore Ballroom · Vancouver

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See Lai Comedy: Fall 2026 Edition

Tue 3 Nov – Sat 21 Nov · 7:00 PM

VS Creative Lab · Vancouver

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Templeton Mini School Information Night

Tue 3 Nov 2026 · 7:00 PM

Templeton Secondary School · Vancouver

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Vancouver Aquarium

📍 Stanley Park

Canada's largest aquarium, in Stanley Park, home to over 65,000 animals across some 120 indoor and outdoor exhibits, with a strong marine rescue and conservation story behind the displays.

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Vancouver Lookout

📍 Downtown

A 360° observation deck 168 metres up at Harbour Centre, reached by a glass elevator, giving a single panoramic read of Stanley Park, Gastown, the harbour, downtown and the North Shore mountains.

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The Jury Experience - The 20 Million Dollar Heist

Tue 3 Nov – Sun 3 Jan 2027 · 3:00 PM

Waterfront Theatre · Vancouver

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The Robot Zoo at Science World

Tue 3 Nov – Sun 4 Apr 2027 · 10:00 AM

Science World · Vancouver

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Tupananchiskama: Ancient Andean Cosmovision

Tue 3 Nov – Sun 3 Jan 2027

Museum of Anthropology at UBC · Vancouver

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VanDusen Botanical Garden

📍 Shaughnessy

A 55-acre garden holding over 7,500 plant species and varieties from around the world, with a hedge maze and a LEED Platinum Visitor Centre, laid out as a calm green escape inside the city.

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English Bay Beach

📍 West End

Described by the City as the most populated beach area in downtown Vancouver, this West End beach sits beside the Stanley Park Seawall. It has a swimming raft with a large slide, two sand volleyball courts, kayak rentals and seasonal lifeguards, and hosts the New Year's Day Polar Bear Swim.

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Vancouver Canucks vs. Anaheim Ducks

Tue 3 Nov 2026 · 7:00 PM

Rogers Arena · Vancouver

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Annual Indigenous Business Award Gala

Wed 4 Nov 2026 · 5:30 PM

Hyatt Regency Vancouver · Vancouver

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Byng Arts Mini School Information Night

Wed 4 Nov 2026 · 7:00 PM

Lord Byng Secondary School · Vancouver

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Harbour Green Park & Coal Harbour Seawall

📍 Coal Harbour

A 3.1-hectare waterfront park that seems to float at the edge of Coal Harbour, reached from the seawall or its grand Bute Street entrance, where a large water feature doubles as a summer spray park. Its rolling lawns are a spot to take in the sea air and watch floatplanes arrive and depart across the harbour.

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Jericho Beach

📍 West Point Grey

The City splits this Point Grey beach by use: the east side is for swimmers and the west side for sailboats and windsurfers, with the Jericho Sailing Centre on site. Behind the sand are playing fields, tennis courts, picnic tables and a swimming raft, with seasonal lifeguards.

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Dirt

Wed 4 Nov 2026 · 7:30 PM

Historic Theatre · Vancouver

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ITBC Annual General Meeting and Indigenous Tourism Gathering

Wed 4 Nov 2026

Coast Coal Harbour Vancouver Hotel · Vancouver

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Sienna Spiro: My House Tour

Wed 4 Nov 2026 · 7:00 PM

Vogue Theatre · Vancouver

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Kitsilano Beach

📍 Kitsilano

A large sandy beach on the Seaside Seawall system with a swimming raft and seasonal lifeguards. The park behind the sand adds tennis and basketball courts, a playground, washrooms and a concession, plus the salt-water Kitsilano Pool nearby.

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Spanish Banks Beach

📍 West Point Grey

Spanish Banks is made up of three sections — east, west and extension — along Northwest Marine Drive. At low tide the water sits about a kilometre offshore, leaving a very wide expanse of sand and tidal flats.

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An Evening with Min Jin Lee

Thu 5 Nov 2026 · 7:30 PM

Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, UBC · Vancouver

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Blues Reunion: Ken Hamm, Doug Cox, David Gogo & Sam Hurrie

Thu 5 Nov 2026 · 8:00 PM

Mel Lehan Hall at St. James · Vancouver

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Britannia Hockey Academy Information Night

Thu 5 Nov 2026 · 6:00 PM

Britannia Secondary · Vancouver

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Sunset Beach

📍 West End

A designated quiet beach at the mouth of False Creek, described by the City as a less populated beach close to the West End and downtown. It sits on the Seawall system near the Vancouver Aquatic Centre, with access to the False Creek Ferry pier and seasonal lifeguards.

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Vanier Park

📍 Kitsilano

A 16.95-hectare waterfront park at the edge of English Bay with tranquil ponds, open fields and a wide pathway, plus views across the water to downtown Vancouver and Stanley Park. It is also home to civic buildings including the Museum of Vancouver and the planetarium, a launching ramp for small craft, and Vancouver's first BMX bike park.

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Chinatown

📍 Chinatown

A historic Chinese-Canadian district around East Pender and Keefer streets where the BIA lists food businesses, shops and cultural attractions including the Dr Sun Yat-Sen Garden and the Chinatown Storytelling Centre, plus its annual Chinatown Festival.

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Commercial Drive

📍 Grandview-Woodland

The Commercial Drive BIA runs along Commercial Drive from Venables Street to East 13th Avenue in Grandview-Woodland. Its own materials describe it as one of Vancouver's most vibrant and distinctive strips, with Italian Day bringing its Little Italy roots to life each year alongside other street festivals and free outdoor film screenings.

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Gastown

📍 Gastown

Vancouver's original downtown core, presented by its BIA as a compact 12-block district of cobblestone streets mixing design studios, fashion boutiques, galleries, speakeasy-style bars, live music venues and restaurants.

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Granville Street Entertainment District

📍 Downtown

Downtown Vancouver's BIA explicitly calls this five-block stretch of Granville Street, from West Georgia to Davie, the Granville Entertainment District, lined with theatres, bars, restaurants and shops including the Vogue Theatre and the Rec Room.

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Mount Pleasant / Main Street

📍 Mount Pleasant

Described by its BIA as Vancouver's oldest neighbourhood outside downtown and its first suburb, bound by False Creek, 16th Avenue, Cambie Street and Clark Drive. Main Street follows the old Brewery Creek route and is lined with small businesses, arts organisations and restaurants.

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Yaletown

📍 Yaletown

A former industrial warehouse district whose historic warehouses have been converted into restaurants, boutiques and cafés, within a short stroll of waterfront views to the south, the Stadium District to the east and the seawall.

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Bloedel Conservatory

📍 Queen Elizabeth Park

Inside the dome at the top of Queen Elizabeth Park, more than 500 exotic plants, tropical birds and koi thrive in a temperature-controlled environment. It is a compact, year-round indoor garden at the city's highest point.

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Lighthouse Park

📍 Point Atkinson

This roughly 75-hectare park preserves old-growth coastal forest above the shore at Point Atkinson. Trails lead to a viewpoint over the lighthouse and light-station grounds — a national historic site — and the park is also known for birdwatching and picnicking.

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Lynn Canyon Park & Suspension Bridge

📍 Lynn Valley

The District's largest park is a temperate-rainforest canyon on Lynn Creek, crossed by its well-known suspension bridge and a network of hiking trails. Start at the Ecology Centre for natural-history exhibits, a park map and advice from park naturalists before heading to the bridge and creek.

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Pacific Spirit Regional Park

📍 UBC

More than 55 km of trails run through forest, creeks, bog, cliffs and foreshore beaches around UBC. Highlights on the official page include Camosun Bog, the big trees on Sword Fern Trail and ocean views on Admiralty Trail.

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Queen Elizabeth Park

📍 Cambie / Riley Park

At 125 m above sea level this is Vancouver's highest point, with views over the city to the North Shore mountains. The 52-hectare park combines a landscaped quarry garden, an arboretum, sculptures and the Bloedel Conservatory.

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Stanley Park

📍 Stanley Park

Vancouver's first and largest urban park is a 400-hectare West Coast rainforest on the downtown waterfront. Walk or cycle the Seawall and forest trails past beaches, gardens, totem poles and other cultural and natural landmarks.

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UBC Botanical Garden & Greenheart TreeWalk

📍 UBC

Canada's oldest continuously operating university botanical garden, organised as a series of themed collections — the David C. Lam Asian Garden, an alpine garden arranged by continent, a BC rainforest garden and a food garden. In season, the 310-metre Greenheart TreeWalk lifts you into the canopy above the Asian Garden for a treetop view of the forest.

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Beaty Biodiversity Museum

📍 UBC

UBC's natural history museum puts more than 500 exhibits on display from a research collection of around two million specimens. A 26-metre blue whale skeleton suspended in the atrium is the centrepiece, alongside BC dinosaur trackways, fossils, and collections running from insects and birds to mammals and plants.

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Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art

📍 Downtown

Canada's only public gallery dedicated to contemporary Indigenous Northwest Coast art, centred on the masterworks of Haida artist Bill Reid — sculpture, jewellery and prints from the Simon Fraser University Bill Reid Collection. Rotating exhibitions on the main floor and mezzanine showcase other Indigenous artists of the Northwest Coast.

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Chinese Canadian Museum

📍 Chinatown

Canada's only museum dedicated to Chinese Canadian history and culture, permanently housed in Chinatown's Wing Sang Building — built in 1889 by merchant Yip Sang and the oldest brick structure in Vancouver's Chinatown. Exhibitions, films and recreated historic spaces, including one of Vancouver's oldest schoolrooms, bring Chinese Canadian stories to life.

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Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

📍 Chinatown

Presented on its official site as the first full-scale classical Chinese garden built outside China, this Ming Dynasty-style garden in historic Chinatown combines traditional architecture, culturally significant planting and winding waterways, with guided tours, tea sessions, exhibitions and concerts.

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H.R. MacMillan Space Centre

📍 Vanier Park

Vancouver's space science centre in Vanier Park, offering 360° Planetarium Star Theatre shows, live science demonstrations and the hands-on Cosmic Courtyard gallery, plus special evening dome and listening events.

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Museum of Anthropology at UBC

📍 UBC

A world-renowned museum of world arts and cultures in an Arthur Erickson building at UBC, holding nearly 50,000 objects, with monumental Northwest Coast First Nations carvings and works by Haida artist Bill Reid at its heart.

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Museum of Vancouver

📍 Vanier Park

Vancouver's civic museum in Vanier Park, whose mission on its official site is to inspire a deeper understanding of Vancouver through stories, objects and shared experiences, with exhibitions and collections that trace the city's history and future.

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Vancouver Art Gallery

📍 Downtown

Founded in 1931 and recognised as one of North America's most innovative visual arts institutions, showing historical and contemporary art from BC and around the world, with special attention to Indigenous artists and the Asia Pacific region.

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Vancouver Maritime Museum

📍 Vanier Park

A Vanier Park museum dedicated to the maritime history of Vancouver, British Columbia and the Arctic. Its centrepiece is the RCMP vessel St. Roch, a National Historic Site visitors can walk through — the first vessel to traverse the Northwest Passage west to east, the first to complete it in one season, and the first to circumnavigate North America.

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Barclay Heritage Square

📍 West End

A small 0.56-hectare West End park whose many paths wind through an intricate blend of formal and informal gardens, in keeping with the heritage buildings that surround the square. The Park Board describes it as a peaceful urban sanctuary for visitors and neighbours alike, with outdoor calisthenics equipment added beneath its mature trees in 2022.

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Nitobe Memorial Garden

📍 UBC

A traditional Japanese stroll garden with a tea house, created in memory of educator and diplomat Dr. Inazo Nitobe and designed under Japanese landscape architect Kannosuke Mori. Its carefully placed stones, lanterns and plantings shift with the seasons — cherry blossom in spring, irises in summer, maples in autumn — making it a quiet place for reflection on the UBC campus.

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Roedde House Museum

📍 West End

An 1893 Queen Anne Revival house in the West End, restored to show the day-to-day life of bookbinder Gustav Roedde's family at the turn of the last century. Unlike many heritage houses, its eleven rooms are not roped off or behind glass, and docents share the stories behind the period furnishings and artefacts.

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Vancouver Police Museum

📍 Gastown

The museum preserves the history of Vancouver policing, the former City Coroner's Services and the City Analyst's Laboratory, with exhibits on historic cases and the development of forensic science in the city. It reopens in mid-November 2026 in a new second-floor Woodward's Building space with a theatre and reimagined displays.

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Vancouver Public Library, Central Library

📍 Downtown

VPL's flagship branch fills a full downtown block at Library Square, bounded by Homer, Hamilton, Robson and Georgia streets, with collections, study space, an Inspiration Lab and meeting rooms spread over its floors. The free rooftop garden on Level 9 makes it as much a piece of public architecture as a place to borrow books.

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