The City’s places
$5.1M in 2011 · $174M in 2026
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Grants in the year the City paid them; works in the year the budget was approved or the contract awarded.
Strathcona: 133 places
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Firehall Arts Centre Theatre · Strathcona$2.5M
Oppenheimer Park Park · Strathcona$628k
Vancouver Police Museum Museum · Strathcona$500kThe 60 other places
61 more places: search by name, by family or by neighbourhood.
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What counts as a place here?
68 landmarks we chose among the places the City owns, runs or funds: theatres, museums, the Central Library, parks and beaches, community centres and pools, City Hall, the bridges. A place is in only when a published record ties City money to it; it is a selection, and it grows. The City’s seven registers (community centres, libraries, fire halls, parks, cultural spaces, shelters, non-market housing) are in the list too: the search, the families and the neighbourhoods find them.
What does a landmark’s amount count?
Two things, added up. The grants the City paid to the organisation that runs the place, as its Statements of Financial Information print them (2011–2025); what the City pays the same organisation for goods and services is not counted. And the place’s works, counted once: the new capital budgets council approved for programs whose name names the place (2021–2026), or the contracts the City awarded whose description names it (2013–2025), whichever is larger — a contract is paid out of a budget, so the two are never added up. A budget is money approved, not money spent. A record that names two landmarks counts for the one it names first. What the City spends itself to run a place (staff, upkeep) is not broken down place by place.
Where do these numbers come from?
The City of Vancouver’s Statements of Financial Information (schedule of grants), its capital budgets 2021–2026 and its register of awarded contracts, on the open data portal, and its seven registers of places. Every amount on a landmark’s page opens its record: the Statement’s page, the capital program, the competition.
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Source: City of Vancouver — Statements of Financial Information (grants), capital budgets, awarded contracts, registers of places. Counted from 2011 to 2026.