Food grows where North Shore industry used to thrive

Big Pete has seen a lot of change on Lower Lonsdale in the 28 years he’s run his comic book emporium between First and Second streets in the city of North Vancouver.
The latest change in the fast-forward development taking place on the former industrial and shipping neighbourhood now known as The Shipyards is sidewalk garden boxes, urban micro-plots growing food for passersby and the food bank.
“The development here is good, absolutely good,” Pete Turcotte, owner of