Every great city has streets like this. In my native Scotland they are often called the High Streets. I lived in the West End of Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada where Robson Street is located and always considered it my High Street. The clip below is from CBC aired in 1964. Robson Street had all sorts of unique stores with an International flair that mirrored the diversity of the West End of Vancouver in particular it’s European and Asian roots.

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One of my stops on the street was the European News who carried a great collection of papers and magazines from the Continent. Including The British Papers and Motorcycle News. As an avid motorist that was the best way to get the news, Canada is a huge country actually larger than the United States with only 10% of the US population. Stats Canada reports that less than 10% of Canadians own a motorcycle so it should come as no surprise that Motorcycle Racing id not a big news item.

HIGH STREETS

The word the word “high” comes from the Old English “heah”.

Heah means “most important” as well as “most elevated in the sense of geographical.”

Scotland has some great High Streets and my home town of Penicuik has one.

The oldest Honda Dealer in Canada that is still in Business was located on Robson Street. It was Incorporated in 1965,

The West End of Vancouver is really the city core and a coalescence of its uniquely West Coast Canadian ambience. It is crowned by Stanley Park one of the worlds best Urban Parks.

The City of Vancouver is located on the unceeded, ancestral and traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Wautut peoples.

These peoples have lived in the region for thousands of years and have a history of being one-with-the-land and water. Canada has awakened from the stupor of its Colonial past and is reaching out to it aboriginal people to find a way forward to reconcile the injustices it has forced on them.