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Jan 6, 2024 · For 135 years, residents have relied on elected members of the Vancouver Park Board to oversee everything from groundskeeping to the devastating moth infestation in Stanley Park to the...
- Frances Bula
Nov 6, 2023 · The Stanley Park Train will be open in time for the Christmas season, Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim announced Monday. “Today is an incredibly special day: today we’re going to announce that the...
Feb 6, 2024 · A Vancouver software developer has launched a campaign to halt tree-cutting in Stanley Park and force the park board to disclose the reports behind the $7-million operation to take down...
- Geological History
- Indigenous People
- Establishing A Reserve
- Opening and Constructing The Park
- Seawall
- Lions Gate Bridge
- The Wars: Coastal Defence
- Storms and Restoration
- Current Tourist Attractions
The peninsula that forms Stanley Park is the result of millions of years of geomorphic processes. It is composed of plutonic, volcanic and sedimentarylayers of rock and exhibits the profound influences of glaciationand glacial retreat from the last ice age. The surface layer of the peninsula is composed of glacial deposits, and scouring of exposed ...
Prior to its use as a public park, Stanley Park was the traditional territory of Coast Salish First Nations, including the Musqueam, Squamishand Tsleil Waututh. Indigenous habitation of the Stanley Park peninsula is ancient. Archaeologists have found artifacts in the park that are more than 3,200 years old. The peninsula was the site of one of the ...
European settlers first laid claim to the Stanley Park peninsula in 1859 by designating it a government reserve. The first chief commissioner of lands and works for British Columbia, Richard Clement Moody, set aside the peninsula, ostensibly for military purposes, though it may also have been reserved as a prospective coal mining site. After Britis...
Stanley Park opened to the public on 27 September 1888 following a ceremony that featured the mayor and other city and provincial government officials. The city appointed a committee to administer and manage the park. Later, the city established the Board of Park Commissioners as an elected body. The park had two entrances, a main entrance at Georg...
The most popular and enduring infrastructure project in Stanley Park was the construction of the 8.8-km seawall that now surrounds the peninsula. The project took more than half a century to complete, beginning in 1914 in small segments at Brockton Point and Second Beach and finishing near Third Beach in 1971. Hundreds of city employees, relief wor...
A three-lane highway connecting Georgia Street to the Lions Gate Bridgehas bisected Stanley Park since the late 1930s. Its construction was the subject of significant political controversy and two separate city-wide plebiscites. As early as the 1890s, real estate developers had proposed constructing a bridge at First Narrows to link downtown Vancou...
During the First and Second World Wars, the Canadian military used parts of Stanley Park for coastal defence and the installation of defence batteries and spotlights. At the outset of the First World War, Vancouverites feared a German attack on Canada’s Pacific coast. A German naval squadron was known to be stationed in China, raising concerns that...
Wind storms have regularly altered the forest of Stanley Park. In the period from 1900 to 1960, 19 separate wind storms struck the park with enough force to take down dozens to thousands of trees. In the 20th century, two substantial storms altered the forest of Stanley Park, one in 1934 and the gales of Typhoon Freda in 1962. Following the storm i...
Today, the park is home to several of British Columbia’sbiggest tourist attractions; for example, the seawall draws millions of people to the city each year and continues to be the most popular part of the park for walkers, joggers, cyclists and in-line skaters. Since 1956, Stanley Park has been home to the Vancouver Aquarium, one of the most widel...
Jul 27, 2022 · The mobility plan is the latest potential change to the 134-year-old park – which is home to beaches, trails and the Vancouver Aquarium – to spark petitions, political recriminations and...
Dec 6, 2023 · For the time being, the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation is refusing to release the expert report behind the operation to cut down almost a quarter of the trees in Stanley Park.
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Through a diverse set of skills and experience, Stanley Park Ecology Society’s volunteer Board of Directors supports the organization in fulfilling its mission as a leader in conservation and environmental education. SPES is governed under the British Columbia Society Act.
