False Creek Knowledge Hub
Welcome to our library of reports, academic literature, and other documents for curious policy makers, urban planners, scientists, or anyone who would like to learn more about the issues at play in False Creek.
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Ecology
Social Relationships with Water
Indigenous-Led Conservation
Water Quality
Marine Traffic
History
Ecology
How can we safeguard the marine life of False Creek?
Investigation of Environmental Protection tools for False Creek, VancouverYash Mehta, Aug 2023
Developing a collaborative Dungeness crab larval monitoring network in the Salish Sea to provide long-term, fishery-relevant data
Emily V Buckner et al., 2025
The Ecology of False Creek
Eric Lee, 2024
Guidelines for applying the IUCN protected area management categories to marine protected areas
Developing capacity for a protected planetJon Day et al., 2019
Social Relationships with Water
A Coastal Marine Strategy for British Columbia
Policy Intentions Paper, Dec 2022
Conservation social science
Understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservationNathan J. Bennett et al., Jan 2017
Re-Connecting Community to the Urban Marine Environment
A Strategy to Foster Public Engagement and Buy-in for an Urban Marine Park in False Creek, VancouverMaggy Spence, August 2022
Land, Water, Ocean, Us
A Canadian Ocean Literacy StrategyCanadian Ocean Literacy Coalition, Mar 2021
Vancouver’s Water Narrative
Learning from Copenhagen & RotterdamRonja Helleshøj Sørensen, January 2019
Marine Parks for Coastal Cities
A concept for enhanced community well-being, prosperity and sustainable city livingS.J. Pittman et al., 2019
Marine Social Science for the Peopled Seas
Nathan J. Bennett, Jan 2019
Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) Framework for False Creek
False Creek Friends
Guide to Coastal and Ocean Protection Law
In British ColumbiaWest Coast Environmental Law, December 2020
Planning Challenge: Healthy Waters Program
Wambui Kinoti, Bagaskara Linanda, Inn Tang, Huayu Wu, Yuzhu Zeng, Apr 19, 2024
Coastal Adaptation False Creek
Final Report City of Vancouver, February 2021
State of the Waterfront
Georgia Strait Alliance, December 2017
Ocean Defenders Declaration
Nature Canada
The Shifting Ribbon
Sea2City, March 2022
Ideathon Challenge Concept Document
False Creek TomorrowAnusheh Ayyaz, September 2023
Indigenous-Led Conservation
Tribal Parks and Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas
Lessons Learned from B.C. ExamplesDavid Suzuki Foundation, Aug 2018
Pathway to Canada Target 1
Collaborative Action Towards a Terrestrial Network of Protected and Conserved Areas Throughout CanadaCanada Conservation, May 2017
Should Trees Have Standing?
Toward Legal Rights for Natural ObjectsChristopher Stone, 1972
Parks as Parks as Persons
Legal Innovation or Colonial Appropriation?Alexandra Flynn, 2022
Erasing Indigenous Indigeneity in Vancouver
BC Studies, No. 155Jean Barman, 2007
The potential for Indigenous-led conservation in urbanized landscapes in Canada
Faisal Moola, Helina Jolly, Joli Borah, and Robin Roth, April 2024
We Rise Together
Achieving Pathway to Canada Target 1 through the creation of Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas in the spirit and practice of reconciliationIndigenous Circle of Experts, March 2018
For much more, please visit the IPCA Knowledge Basket
Water Quality
Water Quality in False Creek
For Policy MakersCassandra Cummings (City of Vancouver), November 2016
Vancouver Water Monitoring Program
2019 ReportFraser Riverkeeper (Swim Drink Fish), March 2020
Recreational Water Quality Guidelines
Guideline SummaryMinistry of Environment & Climate Change Strategy, 2019
Storm Water Source Control Lower Fraser
Dead Boat Society
Assessment of Bacteriological Indicators in False Creek
With Recommendations for Bacteriological Water Qualtiy Objectives for Recreational UsesBurke Phippen (BWP Consulting Inc.) and Diane Sutherland (Ministry of Environment), August 2006
Liquid Waste Management Plan Update
Phase 3 Public Engagement SummaryMetro Vancouver, June 2025
CoV Staff Report RE: False Creek Water Quality
February 2018
Raising the standards for water quality objectives in Burrard Inlet
Interaction between public, ecological and cultural values through Indigenous-Provincial collaborationAnuradha Rao et al., April 2018
Assessment of Burrard Inlet Water and Sediment Quality
Burke Phippen, December 2001
Marine Traffic
Derelict Boats
What is Needed is Preventative ActionOpen letter, Nov 1 2021
Regulations Amending the Boating Restriction Regulations
November 2005
Canada Gazette, Part II
Regulatory Impact Analysis StatementVol. 139, No. 25
Regulate Anchoring in False Creek
Administrative ReportGM of Engineering Services, November 1999
Local Authorities’ Guide
Vessel operation restriction regulationsTransport Canada, 2019
CoV Staff Report
Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation, November 2017
History
Bartholomew Plan
A Plan for the City of Vancouver, British ColumbiaHarland Bartholomew et al., 1930
False Creek Development
A Study of the actions and interactions of the three levels of government as they affected public and private development of the waterway and its land basinDennis Michael Churchill, November 1953
Visions of False Creek
Urban Development and Industrial Decline in Vancouver, 1960-1980Jacopo Miro, 2009