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Situated between the world-famous Stanley Park, Vancouver's cherished English Bay Beach, and the downtown business district, the West End is a dynamic, densely populated community overflowing with activity, day and night.

The popular Robson Street shopping area is known throughout the city as the place to "see and be seen." It is a major tourist destination and is filled with upscale boutiques, trendy clothing stores, restaurants and coffee shops. Denman Street is another popular shopping haunt, lined with funky shops, inexpensive dining, movie theatres, and the local community centre and library. The downtown business core is just minutes away, making this area an ideal home for office workers and car-less Vancouverites

The West End is located in the most densely populated, intensively active portion of the Lower Mainland. It shares the peninsula with the Downtown, Central Business District and Stanley Park. Until the turn of the century, the West End was only sparsely settled, due to its distance from the old Granville Townsite (Gastown). Through the 1890s the forest was logged and gradually replaced with grand Victorian homes for upper-income families. With the CPR's development of Shaughnessy in 1910, the West End's role as a "high-class" residential area declined and the community's second stage of development began. Apartments were built, homes along the Robson, Denman and Davie (all streetcar lines) were redeveloped as shops, and larger homes were converted into rooming houses.