Historic Vancouver mission falls victim to city's real estate boom

One of the city’s oldest missions in the Downtown Eastside, which has been serving the needs of the neighbourhood’s most impoverished and addicted for decades, has been sold.

The building has been standing on Carrall Street since 1889. The Gospel Mission Society moved in during the 1940’s and has since been offering religious day services, meals, movie nights, and warm showers and welcomes to some of the city’s most vulnerable residents.

“Everything you read about, everything you hear about the Downtown Eastside, this is core central for