Lower Lonsdale

Lower Lonsdale climbs Lonsdale Avenue from the SeaBus at Lonsdale Quay up to Keith Road at the north end of Victoria Park. Beside the terminal, the Lonsdale Quay Market holds more than 60 locally owned businesses, and the Polygon Gallery sits next door at 101 Carrie Cates Court. In winter, walk east to the Shipyards Skate Plaza, where 12,000 square feet of ice costs nothing if you bring skates. The City of North Vancouver says the rink reopens for 2026/27 in late November. Plan around the half-hour ice cleans at 1:30, 3:30 and 5:30 pm.

Most of the eating happens between the water and 3rd Street. The Lower Lonsdale Business Improvement Area lists close to 60 places to eat and drink. For breakfast there's Jam Cafe on East 1st Street, and Fishworks at 91 Lonsdale cooks seafood. At 93 Lonsdale, 49th Parallel Coffee pours in the Keith Block, which went up in 1908. The breweries sit a few blocks east, where Streetcar Brewing, North Point Brewing, Beere Brewing and La Cerveceria Astilleros share East 1st Street and East Esplanade. Strathcona Beer Co. pours inside the Quay itself.

Lower Lonsdale is on the traditional and unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation). Just west of the Quay along West Esplanade is the Squamish Nation community of Eslhá7an (Mission IR 1), and St. Paul's Church stands on its waterfront. On a wet afternoon the Museum of North Vancouver (MONOVA) at 115 West Esplanade keeps you indoors with the city's history. Further east, Moodyville Park takes its name from Sewell Moody's sawmill. North Shore Heritage counts that mill as the first organized settler community on this side of Burrard Inlet.