Community Mapping False Creek

A collaboration between False Creek Friends Society and Georgia Strait Alliance

This project maps how False Creek’s urban watershed acts as a safe harbour from climate impacts by combining lived experience from local residents, equity-deserving groups, and Indigenous Peoples with existing scientific data. The resulting accessible community map will illustrate local climate risks and opportunities for stewardship and ongoing climate action.

From 2026-2027, False Creek Friends Society and Georgia Strait Alliance will work together to:

  1. Collate a wide range of pre-existing maps and information about False Creek from various data silos

  2. Collect place-based stories of climate threats, opportunities, and memories from False Creek’s many communities

  3. Combine the above into a new interactive map, designed for legibility, accessibility, updatability, and free exploration of the layers of False Creek, to be published at falsecreek.info

As this project is informed by community stories and intends to serve community needs, our process will be collaboratively designed with a Community Advisory Circle.

This project is supported by the City of Vancouver’s Community Climate Action Grant Program