A project undertaken by UBC Library’s Digitization Centre, the Greater Vancouver Regional District Planning Department Land Use Maps are available online.

This series of detailed maps were produced in 1965, 1971, 1980 and 1983 (1983 covers the City of Vancouver Only) by the Greater Vancouver Regional District (now Metro Vancouver) and are held in the UBC Library’s Map & Atlas Collection.

The maps, printed in black & white, use symbols to show lot-by-lot land use according to 64 categories, such as residential, industrial, commercial, etc. Digitization preserves the maps and makes them widely available to researchers in urban planning, geography, history, environmental remediation, etc. at UBC and beyond.

UBC Library secured permission from Metro Vancouver, the copyright holder, to digitize these maps.

Image Credit: Index Map Subdivision and Land Use Maps