Cedardale, West Vancouver: Homes for Sale, Prices, Schools and Daily Life

Cedardale covers the south-east corner of West Vancouver. The West Vancouver Archives describes it as the area from the Capilano River in the east to Taylor Way in the west, and from Keith Road in the south to the Upper Levels Highway in the north. Park Royal lies south of Keith Road, Sentinel Hill rises on the far side of Taylor Way, and North Vancouver is across the river.

The land climbs from south to north. Natural Resources Canada's elevation data gives 22 metres above sea level for a point on Keith Road, 57 metres for the middle of the area and 74 metres for Taylor Way at Inglewood Avenue. Inglewood Avenue and Keith Road cross the neighbourhood from west to east, and 3rd Street runs north and south on the east side.

The streets are residential, and the map on this page marks no grocery store, cafe, pharmacy or clinic inside Cedardale. A French immersion elementary school, four sports fields, a garden park and a riverside trail are all inside the area or on its edge.

In our view, Cedardale suits a buyer who wants a detached house and a large garden on ground that is less steep than the hills to the west and north, and who drives to the shops.

Cedardale has been an official place name since November 26, 1979. BC Geographical Names, the province's place name office, adopted it from a map that the District of West Vancouver supplied in September of that year. Its record adds that the community is east of Taylor Way. The record gives no reason for the name, and no source we read says who chose it.

People used the name 25 years before the province adopted it. The West Vancouver Archives holds a photograph dated April 28, 1954 that shows the playing field of Cedardale Elementary School under construction. A 1994 photograph in the same collection shows the building at 595 Burley Drive as the Cedardale Centre, and the record says it was first built as Cedardale Elementary School. That address is École Cedardale today.

Brothers Creek, which crosses the neighbourhood, has a recorded story. The provincial record says that "about 1909" workmen opening Mathers Avenue found three creeks close together and called them the Sisters Creeks. When the municipality applied for water rights on one of them in 1914, a search found a Sister Creek farther north, so this one became Brothers Creek.

The property at 200 Keith Road, in the south-east corner, has the longest record we found. The District says the house there was built in 1925 and was the home of Dr. Ethlyn Trapp from 1942 until she died in 1972. She gave the 6.2 acre property to the District in 1960, on the agreement that it be used for recreation, a nursery garden, a playground or other community use. By the District's account she named it Klee Wyck in honour of her friend, the artist Emily Carr. The District removed the house and the studio in 2021.

Shopping means a trip to Park Royal, the shopping centre on Marine Drive, south of Keith Road. The table on this page gives the straight line distance. In our experience, most households make this trip by car.

One bus route serves the same trip. The 256 leaves Park Royal, climbs Taylor Way, stops on Inglewood Avenue at Burley Drive and on Keith Road at 3rd Street, then returns to Park Royal. In TransLink's schedule for September 7, 2026 to January 3, 2027, it comes once an hour on weekdays, from 6:08 a.m. to 7:08 p.m. at the Inglewood Avenue stop. The ride from that stop to Park Royal is given 12 to 13 minutes, and from Keith Road at 3rd Street 8 to 9 minutes.

For sport, Hugo Ray Park is at 1290 3rd Street. The District's field list, as saved on September 11, 2026, shows four grass fields there. Cedardale Park is mapped south of it, and the grounds of École Cedardale are on the west side near Taylor Way. The nearest recreation centre on the map is across the river in North Vancouver.

The Capilano Pacific Trail runs along the river side of Cedardale. The District describes the route. It starts at the dog walk area of Ambleside Park and follows the river until signs send walkers up to Keith Road. From Keith Road it heads east past Klee Wyck Park, then north on a roadway to the forest.

North of Cedardale the trail is closed. The route once continued through Capilano River Regional Park to the fish hatchery and the Cleveland Dam. A landslide on January 6, 2021, in the area of Moyne Drive, removed a section of the trail. The District's page, as saved on August 17, 2025, states that the park can no longer be reached from West Vancouver this way. In October 2024, Metro Vancouver told the District that rebuilding the trail on its old line was not feasible because of the unstable ground. Read the District's page and Metro Vancouver's park page before you plan a walk to the dam.

Klee Wyck Park, at 200 Keith Road, is the former garden estate described in the history section. The District uses part of it as a plant nursery for its parks department. After the buildings came down, it landscaped the open ground for park use and finished that work in February 2022.

Take care beside the river. Metro Vancouver warns that water can be released over the Cleveland Dam, which makes the river rise fast, and that alarms along the river sound when a large unplanned release happens. Its park page also says the regional park is home to bears, cougars and coyotes.