Cambie Street

Cambie Street

The intersection of Cambie Street and Southwest Marine Drive, looking northward from the Marine Drive Canada Line station.
Namesake	Henry John Cambie
Type	Street
Owner	City of Vancouver
Maintained by	City of Vancouver
Location	Vancouver, British Columbia
Nearest metro station	Canada Line
Other
Known for	Cambie Village, Queen Elizabeth Park Oakridge Mall
Main Section
Length	7.7 km (4.8 mi)[1]
South end	Kent Avenue N
Major junctions	SW Marine Drive 41st Avenue Broadway
North end	Smithe Street / Nelson Street
Downtown Section
Length	1.4 km (0.87 mi)[1]
Southwest end	Pacific Boulevard
Major junctions	Nelson Street Smithe Street Georgia Street Hastings Street
Northeast end	Water Street

Cambie Street is a street in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is named for Henry John Cambie, chief surveyor of the Canadian Pacific Railway's western division^[2] (as is Cambie Road, a major thoroughfare in nearby Richmond).

There are two distinct sections of the street. North of False Creek, the street runs on a northeast–southwest alignment (following the rotated street grid within Downtown Vancouver). As such, the street direction is approximately 45 degrees to that of the Cambie Bridge, and there is no seamless connection between the two. Instead, Nelson Street carries southbound traffic onto the bridge, and Smithe Street carries northbound traffic away from the bridge. The downtown section of Cambie Street runs from Water Street in Gastown in the north to Pacific Boulevard in Yaletown in the south and is a two-way street for its length.

South of False Creek, the street is a major six-lane arterial road, and runs as a two-way north–south thoroughfare according to the street grid for the rest of Vancouver. This section of the street was originally named Bridge Street, and was first connected to Cambie Street after the first Cambie Bridge opened in 1891; it was renamed Cambie Street after the second Cambie Bridge opened in 1912.^[2]

Between King Edward Avenue West and Southwest Marine Drive, the street has a 10 metre wide boulevard with grass and many well established trees on it; the boulevard was designated as a heritage landscape by the city of Vancouver in 1993.^[3][4]