Granville was the name from 1870 to 1886 for what would become the townsite of Vancouver, British Columbia.

[1] The townsite included the original settlement of Gastown.

The area was first known as Gastown, a settlement around the original makeshift tavern established by "Gassy" Jack Deighton in 1867 just west of the Hastings Mill property.

[2][3] In 1870 the colonial government surveyed the settlement,[4] laid out a townsite, and renamed it "Granville" in honour of the then-British Secretary of State for the Colonies, Lord Granville.

[5] This site, with its natural harbour, was selected in 1884[6] as the terminus for the railroad, renamed Vancouver, and incorporated as a city in 1886.