Citations:Kits

English citations of Kits

Proper noun: "(informal) the Kitsilano neighbourhood of Vancouver"

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1999, Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Vancouver, page 57:
Vegetarians will think they've died and gone to heaven, especially in Kits, the former center of hippiedom.
2000, Shawn Blore, Vancouver: Secrets of the City, unknown page:
It was while living in Kits that the American-born author introduced the world to his vision of a gritty post-industrial future, […]
2004, Tim Jepson, The Rough Guide to Vancouver, page 147:
Granville Island is an obvious location - but is busy at weekends, as are restaurants and cafés in Kits and Stanley Park.
2006, Tannis Zboroluk, Kitsilano Al Fresco, page 2:
So often, as they'd stroll down the pathways and sidewalks in Kits, they'd remark on the essence of the neighbourhood, sighing, “only here”.
2007, Tom Wayman, Boundary Country, page 259:
The guy who spoke was from a house in Kits that is a branch of this Zen monastery in Washington State.
2010, George Fetherling, Jericho, page 36:
You can't turn into the next aisle at Capers, the one in Kits, without running into them personally inspecting each eggplant for the right degree of purpleness.
2010, Pang Guek-Cheng, Culture Shock! Vancouver, page 90:
West Point Grey with the park-like surrounds of the University of British Columbia, the beautiful beaches of English Bay and the interesting Kits next door, has the unmistakeable air of an upmarket community.
2011, John Lee, Drinking Vancouver: 100+ Great Bars in the City and Beyond, unnumbered page:
Mixing partying UBC students and thirtysomething blue-collar regulars (yes, there are people with real jobs in Kits), it's a cave-like, windowless old boozer where you'll only see the light of day if you sit on the tiny patio or near the entrance.
2011, Kay Stewart, Sitting Lady Sutra, page 118:
Antoinette didn't really want to leave our funky house in Kits, or her friends, or her job managing one of those little boutiques along Broadway.
2014, Patrick Taylor, Now and in the Hour of Our Death: A Novel of the Irish Troubles, page 52:
She'd walked from Kits to Granville Island, intending to take the water-bus across False Creek and walk down Burrard Street to West Georgia.
2018, Timothy Taylor, "Saturna Island", in Vancouver Noir (ed. Sam Wiebe), unnumbered page:
Harris was holding a fresh beer to his face in his crappy apartment in Kits.
2019, Robert P. French, Three, unnumbered page:
“I checked the city property records and found out that Mr. Dale Summers owns a townhouse in Kits with an assessed value of a cool two point two million dollars. […]
2019, R. M. Greenaway, Flights and Falls, page 322:
“So, what happened is Patrick wanted to go to this other house party in Kits with old friends.
2019, Tu Ji Fun, The Race Is Not to the Swift, page 12:
His grandmother, the one who gave him the Leafs sweater, last visited Vancouver five years ago, 2007, before Daphne was born, when Sam was still a baby, when they were still renting in Kits.