Sunset Plumbing Services

KCs Plumbing & Heating has been serving the residents and businesses in the Sunset neighborhood since we opened our doors in 1993. Our plumbing services range from residential to business and commercial interests. If you are looking for a local plumber, call us today and we'll send someone over right away. Call now to book a professional Sunset plumber.

An Ethnically Diverse Neighborhood

Sunset is an ethnically diverse, working-class area filled with single family homes, low-rise apartments, and small retail shops. The area is an Indo-Canadian hub in Vancouver. Both Main Street and Fraser Street are vibrant shopping areas lined with many independently owned stores and restaurants. Sunset is in south-central Vancouver, east of Langara Golf Course, and slopes from the Mountain View cemetery down to the Fraser River.

Sunset was one of the earliest communities to be settled in the Vancouver area. The first families to inhabit South Vancouver came to the banks of the North Arm of the Fraser River to farm, fish and log.

Development of the Sunset neighborhood first took place in the 1860s. At the time, the area was part of the District of South Vancouver and consisted mostly of farmland alongside a cluster of homes. Extensive logging took place along the south slope of Vancouver during the late 19th into early 20th century, prompting communities such as Sunset to rapidly industrialize.

In 1929, the District of South Vancouver amalgamated with the City of Vancouver, thus incorporating Sunset as a part of the city. The neighborhood remained quite rural until the 1940s, when a large wave immigrants from central and eastern Europe moved into the area. Many new German immigrants established churches, most of which remain to this day.

In the 1960s, another large wave of immigrants moved into Sunset. Primarily Sikhs from the Punjab region of South Asia, the new immigrants founded the Punjabi Market (Little India) on Main Street and presided over the last final large scale development in the neighborhood with the construction hundreds of Vancouver Specials. As most development in the area ceased in the 1980s, these homes continue to be a mainstay across southeast Vancouver.

Today, the neighborhood is among the most ethnically diverse across Metro Vancouver and continues the serve as the centre of the South Asian community in Vancouver.

Commercial districts in Sunset are situated on Fraser Street between 41st and 51st avenues; named as Vancouver's most multicultural neighborhood, the Fraser district features many South Asian, Chinese, Filipino and European businesses.

Another commercial district in Sunset is the Punjabi Market (also known as Little India) which is situated on Main Street and 49th Avenue.

Like most of south-east Vancouver, the area used to be predominantly working class but rising house prices elsewhere have made the area increasingly popular with young professionals and families who can no longer afford houses in areas such as the west side.

Postal Code: V5X, V5W, V5P