Corrugated tin market sheds and a working concrete plant under a road bridge, the market Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol played as a Seattle pier.
What Granville Island looks like
The crosses overhead at the south end, its steel trusses rising above the entrance road and a lit PUBLIC MARKET sign. Corrugated tin sheds with green and red striped awnings line the plaza in front, and inside the Public Market a ten ton hoist still hangs from the roof trusses over the stalls.
A working concrete plant sits beside the market, ready mix trucks loading under grey silos a few dozen metres from the shoppers. Narrow paved lanes and a loading yard run between the sheds toward , a two storey clapboard building on Johnston Street with artisan studios upstairs.
Cartwright Street holds the and a run of low tin roofed retail sheds, boat rigging and coiled rope still part of some of the older frontages. Aquabus and False Creek Ferries dock at floating piers along the water, small painted boats running passengers to the mainland all day.
At the eastern tip, a wooden boardwalk runs along a lawn in , bare trees and a low amphitheatre wall beside the water. West of the market, 's floating homes are moored in a narrow channel under the bridge. They are clad in red, yellow and green corrugated siding, with small boats tied up at the docks.
Shot in Granville Island
For Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol, the production dressed the Public Market as a Seattle pier for the team's reunion at the end of the film. The Great Canadian Pottery Throw Down later used the island's own former ceramics studio in the old Emily Carr building as its working competition space.
Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol, 2011
The Public Market
Played Pier 47, Seattle, Washington, present day
Ethan Hunt's team regroups at outdoor tables here after the film's Kremlin mission, the market's own tin roofed frontage standing in for a Seattle pier called Pier 47. The scene plays on the plaza between the market hall and the water, the same corrugated sheds and striped awnings a visitor walks past today. Street View
The Tin Building at South Street Seaport is a corrugated tin clad market hall a few blocks from the water, rebuilt in 2022 from the historic 1907 original, so the material and the market use both line up closely. Restaurants and market stalls fill the ground floor there too, much like the Public Market's own mix. The Tin Building sits under an elevated highway rather than a bridge, and Manhattan's towers behind it stand taller than anything visible from Vancouver's own market. Try searching tin clad market hall now.
Fishermen's Terminal in Seattle, Washington
Fishermen's Terminal on Salmon Bay is a working harbor of net sheds and boat moorage open to the public, immediately west of the Ballard Bridge, a similar scale to a market beside a working concrete plant under its own road bridge. A seafood market and restaurants sit among the working sheds there as well. Puget Sound's mountains and the terminal's larger fishing fleet would need to stay out of a wide shot meant to double for Vancouver. Try searching working net sheds harbor now.
