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West Cambie, Richmond — Area Guide & Where to Stay
West Cambie is a mainly residential neighbourhood of Richmond, British Columbia, and the ground on which the 12 Service Battalion Museum stands.
About West Cambie
Where to stay in West Cambie
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Highway 99 runs along the northern boundary, and Sea Island Way feeds into it. That access is the practical argument for West Cambie: a residential grid inside Richmond with a major highway at its northern edge, Alderbridge Way and Westminster Highway carrying traffic along the southern one, and Garden City Road closing the western side. Few beds sit between those roads.
The 12 Service Battalion Museum is the one visitor destination recorded within the boundaries.
About West Cambie
What are the main landmarks in West Cambie?
The 12 Service Battalion Museum is the single named site in West Cambie. Everything else on the map is roadway or housing, with Garden City Road, Shell Road, Sea Island Way, Alderbridge Way and Westminster Highway drawing the frame and Highway 99 running past the top of it. Subdivisions cover the ground between.
Richmond surrounds all of it, and the neighbourhood reads as a block of streets between two through-routes rather than as a destination in its own right.
What is the history of West Cambie?
Roads made this neighbourhood's outline. Garden City Road, Shell Road, Sea Island Way, Alderbridge Way and Westminster Highway were laid across Richmond, British Columbia as through-routes, and the residential blocks of West Cambie filled the ground they enclosed. Highway 99 seals the north.
The 12 Service Battalion Museum stands inside that frame, the one institution the record names within the neighbourhood.
Where is West Cambie?
Four roads draw the outline. West Cambie runs from Garden City Road to Shell Road, with Sea Island Way along its northern edge and Alderbridge Way along the southern.
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Updated August 2026