Stanley Park

The park occupies a four-hundred-hectare peninsula at the harbour mouth, and it was not planted: it is temperate rainforest that was never entirely logged, with century-old cedars and Douglas firs. The land belonged to the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh nations.

The Seawall runs right round it for ten kilometres, flat, at water level, with the North Shore mountains opposite. It was built over fifty years by a single mason, James Cunningham, who worked on it until he retired.