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 Sweeper Parts Strathcona - The residential district of Strathcona in Vancouver is considered amongst Vancouver's oldest neighbourhood. The neighborhood is surrounded by the BNSF Railway (the Great Northern Railway and the Canadian National Railway) to the south, the Burrard Inlet towards the north, Chinatown to the west and Clarke Drive to the east.
Within Strathcona, there are currently about 8,000 people. During the boom years after the founding of the city, the district truly started to bloom. This growth in population was partially due from the choice of early Vancouver as a railway station. The district emerged from the first settlement that grew around Hastings Mill.
Strathcona has always been a working class neighborhood. The inhabitants who call the area home come from numerous ethnic backgrounds. Where 61% of the individuals report Chinese as their mother tongue, it is the only district where English is not the most commonly spoken language, and only 24% report English as their mother tongue.
There has been a major gentrification process in Strathcona during the recent years, reinforcing the economic disparity of the neighborhood. A lot of the homes in Strathcona are designated heritage homes as the late 19th and early 20th century architecture within the area is quite rare within Vancouver. Particularly, the housing stock is being renovated and rejuvenated. Hence, there has been an increase in property value and wealthier home owners are being drawn into the district. Many homeowners have refurbished their houses in the original Edwardian or Victorian styles, including paying precise attention to the time period's "true colors".
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