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Place Vanier Overview

You'll find that perfect balance at Totem Park and Place Vanier. The communal accommodations and special orientation programs will help smooth the transition to your new life at university. And you won't have to cook for yourself.

Almost everyone living in Totem Park and Place Vanier is new to UBC: either a first-year student, a transfer student from college or another university, or an international student on an exchange. You will have a lot in common with the people on your floor, in your house and in your residence.

You will be surprised at how quickly you will make friends with others on your floor. In no time, this group of strangers will become your network of friends, study buddies and teammates. You will always have someone to walk to class with, someone to talk to, someone to laugh and hang out with.

Place Vanier Front Desk Address: 1935 Lower Mall, Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1X1
Phone: 604.822.2642
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Place Vanier Features:

• Minimum age: none
• 12 houses
  Co-ed Houses: Cariboo, Hamber, Mawdsley, Okanagan, Sherwood Lett, and Tweedsmuir, Korea-UBC House and Tec-UBC House
• Women's Houses: Kootenay and Ross
  Men's Houses: Mackenzie and Robson
• Total beds: 1,370
• Washrooms: single gender, communal with private toilets and showers
• Shared double, triple, and single rooms
• Twin XL bed (no linen), desk, chair, bookshelves, lamp all provided
• Wired (ethernet) internet access
• Lounge with TV and kitchen
• Outlet for phone
• Study area
• Dining room, meal plan
• Fitness room
• After-hour convenience store
• Piano/music practice room
• Wireless internet access in Commonsblock
• Basketball court
• Tennis court
• Limited monthly parking (additional fee)
• Card-operated laundry
• 24 hour front desk service
• Residence advisors in each house