Granville Island

Geographical location

Granville Iceland is a small peninsula, as well as a shopping and cultural district in the Canadian city of Vancouver. It is located in False Creek estuary at the south end of the Granville Street Bridge. Granville Iceland was shot in 1915 by land reclamation, by the trough was filled between two flat sandbanks. The peninsula was once an industrial area, more and more disintegrated in the 1950s and was finally fed to new uses in the 1970s.

On the peninsula there is a flea market, a marina, the Emily Carr University of Art and Design ( named after the artist ), a museum of model trains, theaters and shopping streets. These are grouped around the sole surviving industrial plant, a cement factory. With the transformation of the industrial wasteland numerous handicraft factories have to Granville Iceland established, including a glass factory, a printing shop, violin makers, shoemakers, jewelers and potters. Also, here a farmer's market takes place every week. 1984, a brewery was opened on the peninsula, which today but mainly produces Granville Iceland Brewing Co. in Kelowna.