Canada Place
Fabric sail-roofs jut over Burrard Inlet — the same waterfront that drew 5 million visitors during Expo 86 now launches Alaska cruises every summer.
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Built on the Canadian Pacific Railway's Pier B–C (1927), this waterfront complex layers a century of Pacific trade, a world's fair, and the 2010 Olympic Press Centre into one site. Since 2024 it carries the co-name Komagata Maru Place, honouring a 1914 immigration confrontation that played out in this very harbour.
What to look for
- The white fabric sail roofs — the building's defining exterior, visible from the water
- Alaska cruise ships at the berths, expanded in 2001 to add an extra ship slot
- Flyover's entrance inside the complex — a virtual flight experience based here
Enter from West Cordova Street; Waterfront Station is steps away with SkyTrain, SeaBus, and West Coast Express all stopping there.
Canada Place is one of 13 sights worth the detour in Vancouver, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Vancouver pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Vancouver
- BC PlaceA stadium that broke the same world record twice — first with the largest air-supported roof ever built, then with the largest cable-supported retractable roof.
- Rogers ArenaBuilt for C$160 million and opened in 1995, this is the rink where Vancouver's hockey soul lives — and where the city briefly renamed it Canada Hockey Place for the 2010 Winter Olympics.
- Stanley ParkA thousand acres of old-growth forest on a downtown peninsula — bigger than Central Park, as old as Vancouver itself.
- Pacific ColiseumThe rink where Vancouver first played NHL hockey — and where 2010 Olympic skaters competed on the same ice.
- Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports CentreCanada's first national hockey team was born on this ice in 1963 — and the Vancouver Canucks still practice here.
- Richmond Olympic OvalThe rink where Olympic speed skaters raced in 2010 is now a public arena where you can climb a wall, row a tank, or lace up hockey skates — all under one roof.