Up until the mid-1960's, the False Creek area was known as Vancouver's industrial heartland. Its shore was lined with factories and saw mills. However, the deindustrialization of the 1970's saw the collapse of this region. The sparse evidence of this industrial past includes the cement factory on Granville Island. However, during this past, when these plants are still operational,  industrial waste was dumped daily into the waters of False Creek. This project uses this premise is the starting point of its study . The objective of this study is to see the general effects of  tidal currents on the movement on of water pollution.

    From looking at a fire insurance map of the area from 1951, six point sources of pollution, a majority being sawmills, were chosen to be part of this study. While it was beyond my scope to research the actual processes that these sawmills used, literature shows that pollutants involved in the wood-processing include fine pulp, bleaching chemicals, sodium sulphate, wood fibers and dyes. Assuming that all these pollutants are not water-bourne and travel in the water or along the bottom of False creek, this GIS project looks at the influence of tidal currents on their movements.