Tidbits from the Internet

An East Van fact – the traditional name for the area now called Grandview-Woodlands in the tongue of the Squamish Nation is XapXapay’ay or Xpey’elhp [hon’qo’mi’nom’] both of which refer to cedar trees. As one commentator on tribe noted, it is likely that East Van was a place where large cedars were stripped down for bark or carve them into canoes – close to the inlet and easy to haul down and launch there.

In fact, there used to be a canoe pass at high tide that followed the current train track line from the harbour to false creek. This was filled in for development, as was the marsh between Campbell and Maclean by the turn of the century.