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Once a gritty industrial sandbar in the middle of False Creek, Granville Island has been transformed into one of Vancouver's most beloved destinations, a peninsula crammed with a public market, artists' studios, theatres, shops and eateries beneath the great span of the Granville Street Bridge that passes overhead. The land itself was created early in the twentieth century by dredging and filling the shallow creek to make an island for factories and sawmills serving the booming city, and for dec...