Liberty Merchant Company & Bridges Restaurant proudly present the 5th Annual Rosé Revival Tasting. All proceeds benefit the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation (BC – Yukon). To date we have raised $11,971 for the Foundation. Sensational Rosé wines along with delectable hors d’oeuvres, exciting door prizes and great company await you. Join us on Monday May 6th, 2013 from 7:00 – 9:00pm at Bridges Restaurant on Granville Island to celebrate pink wine and support pink ribbons. Tickets are $29.99 and available at all Liberty Wine Merchants ...

From November 19-25, the familiar clinging of coins in the tills of Granville Island merchants will be accompanied by another sound – the soft and pleasing thud of wood. The Granville Island Seed Coin, minted from beautiful, laser-engraved wood, will circulate alongside the Canadian Dollar through the island’s streets and alleys for one week only, giving those who use it a sense of what it might be like if Granville Island, or their own communities, had their very own community currencies. The Seed Coin will ...

Masa Shiroki came to Granville Island with a mission in 2006. After retiring from his work at the BC Trade Development Corporation, Masa wanted to do something ‘culturally meaningful’ …and fun. First he tried importing fine Japanese sake. He peddled his high quality imported sakes with lectures, tastings and talks with the sommelier guild, but nothing worked. His audiences simply weren’t invested in a product that seemed inaccessible, foreign and perhaps out of context. How to fix this dilemma? What if the finest sake available ...

The Ladies of Aurum-Argentum Aurum-Argentum Goldsmiths is the creative and artistic workspace of Pernilla Ahrnstedt, Kristen Jones and Gisela Kuckertz. What brought the three goldsmiths together was the desire to create truly artistic jewellery. Granville Island is the perfect place for a studio producing work that goes beyond the commercial approach to jewellery making. The Blonde… Ornate and beautiful, Pernilla’s Euridice collection draws on the aesthetic of antique Greco-Roman jewellery. Inspired by the Greek myth of Orpheus and Euridice, this shadow box pendant showcases a ...

… A Zen House ZenHouse Media (from left to right) Lucy St. John, Jocelyn Hallett (Owner), Miranda Ting, Cloe Aigner, Shireen Nabatian and Alyssa Burtt. ZenHouse Media was formed in 2007 and is made up of like-minded professionals with a combined passion for strengthening local communities and promoting Vancouver arts and culture initiatives. As a truly home-grown enterprise, they have maintained a boutique feel that allows each team member to play a direct role in the creative process, really getting involved and becoming a part ...

at Granville Eyeland Framemakers Granville Eyeland Framemakers is one of two businesses in Canada that offer custom designed and hand made eyewear. Klaus Sebök, frame designer and maker, came to Sara Moshurchak’s class to talk about his rare craft, as Canadian opticians don’t generally learn the art of custom eyewear. That very day, Sara promised herself that she would learn from him and that eventually, she would run the business herself. After years of working as his apprentice, Sara fulfilled her promise and took over ...

Ruth Shell Counselling in False Creek Seventeen years ago, Ruth Shell was very busy living her professional life when a number of events including a bad car accident forced her to seriously re-evaluate her lifestyle and everyday choices. She dreamed about moving away from her busy, stressful life in the city, but her ties in Vancouver wouldn’t allow her to leave. Ruth made the bold move to relocate both her home and her private counselling practice to False Creek. Now, Ruth and her dog Honey ...

Yaletown Award-winning chefs… local fashion and art… globally renowned mixologists… Yaletown curates the best Vancouver has to offer and it’s all just 5 minutes away from Granville Island via Aquabus. Yaletown is a revitalized neighbourhood that was once distinctly industrial, home to warehouses and rail distribution centres, where streetcars and horse-drawn wagons would deliver their wares. Raised loading docks from the olden days have since transformed into some of the best patios in the city and old brick buildings house some of the hippest retail ...

Granville Island was created between 1913 and 1916 when the Government of Canada, and the newly created federal Vancouver Harbour Commission, contracted with Pacific Dredging to hydraulically pump and dredge over 1,000,000 cubic yards of material from the bottom of False Creek, and deposit the material behind pilings ringing several sandbars and First Nation fishing weirs. Over the next 50 years, heavy industry waxed and waned on Granville Island. By the early 1960s it had become a squalid, seedy and derelict industrial area. For the ...

Serving Vancouver Since 1911 2012 marks the 101st anniversary of MacLure’s Cabs. Founded in 1911 by Donald C. MacLure, MacLure’s Cabs is the oldest cab company in the Lower Mainland. Their humble office near the entrance of Granville Island has seen False Creek and Vancouver transform from a sleepy pioneer town to the fast-moving city we know today. Donald MacLure started out providing jitney tours around Stanley Park. The service quickly grew to include the rest of Vancouver and surrounding areas. By the 1940s, MacLure’s ...