After moving to Vancouver in 1974, he sang and played the piano in Rossini's restaurant in Kitsilano.
The route of the Lulu Island Railway is today the so-called Arbutus Corridor, which runs west through Kitsilano before turning south to Kerrisdale and Marpole before crossing the North Arm of the Fraser to reach Lulu Island and the City of Richmond.
Working-class neighborhoods were established in surrounding areas like Kitsilano, Strathcona and Grandview–Woodland.
One famous sale of trees cut from the Jericho neighbourhood (west of Kitsilano), was a special order for the Celestial Emperor of China consisting of dozens of immense beams for the construction of The Gate of Heavenly Peace in the Forbidden City, Beijing.
Their dinner of Dolly Varden trout, wild mushrooms, dandelion leaves, apples, sour cherries, and rose hips, along with potatoes and garlic from the garden, so impressed the couple that once back home, in their Kitsilano apartment in Vancouver, they pursued the idea of eating only local food.
Vancouver Lawn Tennis & Badminton Club is a tennis club located at Granville Park in the upmarket neighborhood of Kitsilano in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.