Kensington-Cedar Cottage is a residential, mostly working-class neighborhood, running East-West from Nanaimo St. to Fraser St., and North-South from Broadway to 41^st Ave. Containing the upper, more residential end of Commercial Drive, the busy, commercial stretch of Kingsway and perhaps the highest concentration of Vancouver Specials  of any neighbourhood in the city, Kensington-Cedar Cottage would be a fairly normal area if not for Trout Lake Park.

Trout Lake Park, containing the Vancouver's only lake, is an oasis in the city, a family-friendly area for picnics, tennis, swimming, walks and more. There is a community centre with an ice rink and a gym, and in the summer there are weekend farmer's markets. Trout Lake also hosts the annual Illuminaries Lantern Procession, a wonderful, free event held each summer, which sees thousands of Vancouverites create wildly imaginative paper lanterns to light up the night sky. Truly, it is one of the most magical evenings on the Vancouver Calendar.

Like most of East Vancouver, Kensington-Cedar Cottage s transitioning from working-class to middle class, as a more affluent, younger demographic moves into the area.

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