English Bay

English By located Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, downtown peninsula, which separates y Burrard Inlet connecting northeast, False Creek southeast. English By Beach, city's W E residential neighbourhood, popular sunbathing, swimming, sunset-watching beach downtown Vancouver . Other downtown beaches facing English By include Sunset Beach, Second Beach, Third Beach. South y Kitsilano Beach, Jericho Beach, Spanish Banks beaches, Locarno Beach. English By major tourist attraction visitors y long, p season being summer.

T Vancouver Seawall y around English By Stanley P northeast, around False Creek, Wreck Beach Strait Georgia southwest. T favourite destination walkers, runners, bicyclists, roller-bladers. (N: Seawall -y cyclists roller-bladers, running counter-clockwise j Lions G Bridge Third Beach.)

English By number cultural events. T HSBC Celebration Light world famous fireworks competition weeks every summer (usually Jy first August). While competition often struggles secure funding, successfully since 1997 largest -shore fireworks display world. E winter Vancouvers' annual Polar B S summer Vancouver Pride Parade Festival downtown banks English By.

I 19 early 20 centuries, English By Vancouver's first official lifeguard, legendary J Fortes, taught hundreds city's early residents swim, patrolled beach cabin shore. Today, waters y often dotted hundreds small pleasure boats, g freighters waiting anchor cargoes Vancouver's p.