WINDOW ON STYLE:
Smoking Lily is one of the many independent boutiques opening on south Main Street
Until 20 years ago, Vancouver's Main Street an artery running from Chinatown toward South Vancouver marked the boundary between the city's smarter West Side and the rough-and-ready section known as East Van. How times have changed. Successive waves of artists, media types and other loft dwellers kicked off a gradual process of gentrification; the day young families started infiltrating its neighborhoods, East Van's journey to respectability was complete.
One knock-on effect of this has been the tidying up of Main Street itself. Cafés and galleries have...
