Punjabi Market, Vancouver — Area Guide & Where to Stay

What are the main landmarks in Punjabi Market?

Shopfronts stand in for monuments here. No single listed building carries Punjabi Market; what carries it is the run of South Asian and Punjabi shops along Main Street, recognised by the city as a business community and a cultural area in its own right. Little India is the market's other name.

Between 48th and 51st Avenues the frontage does the work a cathedral or a museum does elsewhere, which is why the district reads as a street rather than as a set of addresses in South Vancouver.

What is the history of Punjabi Market?

Recognition, not settlement, is what the record dates. The city formally acknowledged this stretch of Main Street as a South Asian and Punjabi business community and cultural area, which is how a run of commercial frontage came to stand as a named district in its own right. Little India is the parallel name.

Sunset keeps its own for the residential blocks around, so the enclave in South Vancouver is bounded by shopfronts between 48th and 51st Avenues rather than by any line on a map.

Where is Punjabi Market?

Punjabi Market runs along Main Street between 48th and 51st Avenues, inside the Sunset neighbourhood of South Vancouver, British Columbia.