The Hopehill Story

Our Mission

Hopehill is a caring community that provides affordable housing and assisted living for maturing adults. We strive to build a safe and healthy neighbourhood for all our residents to call home.

Making a difference since 1951

Founded by the Canadian Baptists of Western Canada in 1951, Hopehill is proud to provide Vancouver seniors with affordable housing in a safe, comfortable, caring, healthy and relaxed community. Through activities, community events and personal care, our 50+ staff members are committed to providing for you and your loved ones an ideal place to live. Welcome home!

Our Vision

To be known as a beautiful place of affordable living for low income seniors. We want to be recognized as a generous community that exemplifies living well and caring for people in their maturing years.

A single flower goes a long way

It might sound like fiction, but it is thanks to a Lion’s Club Mother’s Day carnation sale in 1947 that Hopehill has been able to provide affordable housing and community for mature adults for more than 65 years.

Hopehill was founded under the name Beulah Garden Homes as a not-for-profit in 1951, having reorganized from the Senior Citizens’ Homes Association Limited (SCHA). The SCHA began as a small group of people concerned about housing options for pensioners and, with the proceeds from that first Mother’s Day flower sale, they purchased a city block in Vancouver with the intention of serving seniors in need of low-cost housing. By 1950, the SCHA had built four new duplexes on that city block and brought eight wartime duplexes by barge from Washington to Vancouver, officially establishing Beulah Garden Homes, now Hopehill, as a permanent feature of the East Vancouver community.