Stanley Park
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Royal Vancouver Yacht Club - Coal Harbour
The Coal Harbour site is one of two marina's and clubhouses operated by the RVYC. The other is located on Jericho Beach on English Bay. The Vancouver Yacht Club was formed in 1903, seventeen years after Vancouver was incorporated. The Club had as its first headquarters a small rented house at the foot of Thurlow Street in Coal Harbour and proudly counted eighteen yachts in its fleet!
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Located on Deadman's Island in Coal Harbour, created during World War II, Discovery was used for recruitment and training, and provided almost 8,000 personnel during WW II. Discovery continues in its training role following the war, and also serves as headquarters for several Reserve and Cadet units. This attractive Colonial building is not accessible by the public and can only viewed from the Stanley Park shoreline.
"The Empress of Japan, McCann reminds us, is “one of the trio of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company's first generation of 'White Empresses,' those ships that were the company's final links in its drive to create an extension of its trans-Canada railway system right through to the Orient and Australasia . . . This ship was once Vancouver's one and major link with the Orient—a ship so lovely in appearance that school children used to be taken down to see her pass in and out of the harbor on her regular schedule, a schedule that was maintained from 1891 to 1922.” by Leonard G. McCann, curator emeritus at the Vancouver Maritime Museum
Stanley Park Eastern Shoreline
The stone seawall and walkway shown here completely encompases the shoreline of Stanley Park and is bounded on the east by Coal Harbour, North by Burrard Inlet (also called Vancouver Harbour) on the west and south by English bay. The distance around the park is approximately 22 kilometers.
This is a fibreglass replica of the figurehead of the Empress of Japan. "The Empress of Japan, is “one of the trio of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company's first generation of 'White Empresses,' those ships that were the company's final links in its drive to create an extension of its trans-Canada railway system right through to the Orient and Australasia . . . This ship was once Vancouver's one and major link with the Orient—a ship so lovely in appearance that school children used to be taken down to see her pass in and out of the harbor on her regular schedule, a schedule that was maintained from 1891 to 1922.” by Leonard G. McCann, curator emeritus at the Vancouver Maritime Museum
A huge Orca statue greets one at the entrance to the Stanley Park Aquarium. It is titled Chief of the Undersea World and world famous aboriginal artist Bill Reid gets the credit for its artistry.
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(Branta canadensis maxima) Extremely successful at living in human-altered areas, Canada geese have proven able to establish breeding colonies in urban and cultivated areas, which provide food and few natural predators, and are well known as a common park species. Their success has led to them sometimes being considered a pest species because of their depredation of crops and issues with their noise, droppings, and habit of begging for food, especially in their introduced range. Canada geese are also among the most commonly hunted waterfowl in North America.
This collection of totems (nine in total) began in the 1920's. This is representative of the beautiful skilled art of the First Nation peoples of coastal British Columbia. Located at Brockton Point in Stanley Park, this display is claimed to be the number one tourist attraction within Stanley Park.
