Little Mountain Place

Little Mountain Place began in 1981, in the wake of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB)’s choice to shut down Queen Elizabeth Hall (Q.E. Hall), a care home for 75 blind and vision impaired residents just to the east of what later became Little Mountain Place. Local people, who were members of the Little Mountain Neighbourhood House and Little Mountain Senior Live Wires, banded together to demand care and housing for such seniors in their neighborhood as well as the dislodged Q.E. Hall dwellers. The group lobbied for and coordinated with the Provincial Government, the City of Vancouver, and the CNIB, and finally, they succeeded in acquiring the next-door land, which was a park-like setting known as Scent Garden. The parcel adjacent to Q.E. Hall became Little Mountain Place and Court, which is the current site.