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Jun 8, 2017 · Stanley Park (established 1887, 4 km2) is Vancouver’s first city park and one of the largest urban parks in Canada. It encompasses the peninsula west of downtown Vancouver and is surrounded by the waters of Burrard Inlet, Coal Harbour and English Bay.
Mar 5, 2021 · Learn about the history of Stanley Park, Canada's most-famous and Vancouver's largest park, from its First Nations origins to its modern attractions. Find out how to get to the park and what to do there, from cycling and hiking to visiting the aquarium and the train.
Learn how Stanley Park has evolved from a grand opening in 1888 to a sustainable and liveable urban forest today. Explore the park's history, ecology, and restoration through photos and stories.
Stanley Park has a long history. The land was originally used by Indigenous peoples for thousands of years before British Columbia was colonized by the British during the 1858 Fraser Canyon Gold Rush and was one of the first areas to be explored in the city.
Aug 21, 2013 · The people who created Stanley Park shared the common modernist belief that engineering and scientific intervention could produce an aesthetically satisfactory landscape, one that was grounded in a romantic and static vision of nature.
On Sept. 27, 1888, a jubilant ceremony at Prospect Point — where Chaythoos once stood — marked the official opening of Stanley Park, named after Canada’s sixth governor general, Frederick Stanley. Over the ensuing decades, more park residents lost their homes, sometimes through violent means.
Sep 24, 2013 · Stanley Park has changed quite significantly since it first opened to the public in 1888. In my new book Inventing Stanley Park: An Environmental History, I explore some of the major landscape transformations of this relatively small peninsula located adjacent to downtown Vancouver.
