The city of Vancouver is located in a popular region in North America that is known for beautiful scenery, cultural diversity and historic residential areas. Vancouver proudly boasts several such neighborhoods, which have been the most populated on the continent for the later part of the 20th century and beyond. One of the most famous and distinctive neighborhoods is the Barclay Heritage Square, a virtual jewel of historic Victorian gardens, benches, even a gazebo that encompasses a single city block. It is all situated modestly among the residential streets of the neighborhood just west of the downtown core, which is most commonly known as the West End.
The earliest record of settlement in this region involved three men known as "The Three Greenhorns": John Morton, William Hailstone, and Samuel Brighouse. Morton was from a family of potters and recognized that the clay of the West End was best for making bricks, and the area came to be known at this time as "The Brickmakers......
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