Stanley Park

Stanley P 404.9 hectare (1,000 ) urban p bordering downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. I largest y-owned p Canada third largest North America. T p attracts estimated eight million visitors every year, including locals tourists, recreational facilities natural attributes. A 8.8 kilometre (5.5 ) seawall p circles park, which y 2.5 million pedestrians, cyclists, inline skaters every y. M p remains forested estimated million trees 76 metres (250 ) hundreds years . There approximately 200 (125 miles) trails roads park, which patrolled y Vancouver Police Department's mounted squad. T Project Public Spaces ranked Stanley P sixteenth p world sixth North America.

Attractions

Stanley P contains numerous natural - attractions visitors p. Unlike other large urban parks, Stanley P product landscape architect, evolved present, mixed- configuration.

Forest

Trees growing stumps regeneration p forest.

T forest gives p natural character other urban parks, leading y users consider urban oasis. I primarily second third growth contains y g Douglas-, Western Redcedar, Western Hemlock, Sitka Spruce trees.

O large trees knocked y storm 15 December 2006.

I addition logging nineteenth century, large swathes p deforested y natural causes three occasions city’s history. T first combination October windstorm 1934 subsequent snowstorm following January felled thousands trees, primarily between Beaver L Prospect Point. Another storm October 1962, remnants Typhoon Freda, cleared x virgin tract behind children's , which opened miniature railway replaced smaller version built 1940s. I total, approximately 3,000 trees storm.

Another storm ravaged p 15 December 2006 115 / (71 p) winds. O 60% western g damaged; worst p around Prospect Point. I total, about 40% forest affected, estimated 3,000 trees damaged. Large sections seawall destabilized y storm, y areas p closed public pending restoration. T restoration estimated $9 million, which covered y contributions three levels government private corporate donations.

Since 1992, tallest trees topped otherwise pruned y p staff safety reasons.

Logging operation Prospect Point, damaged y 2006 storm.

Because p subjected dramatic changes, several landmark trees affected. T Hollow T probably photographed p element bygone years, obligatory p locals, tourists dignitaries alike, professional photographer capture visit . T saved widening 1910 through lobbying efforts photographer living . Automobiles horse-drawn carriages would frequently backed hollow, demonstrating immensity posterity. While remaining 700-800 y- stump still draws viewers commemorated plaque, longer alive shrunk considerably years, circumference 18.3 (60 ) y decades g, recent 17.1 (56 ). A April 2008, targeted removal potential safety hazards.



T National Geographic Western Redcedar about months before uprooted y storm.

Another achieved National Geographic Tree, named because appeared magazine’s October 1978 issue. W circumference 13.5 (44½ ), impressive g Western Redcedars p. I diminished time, ravaged y storms, lightning strike, topped y p staff height 39.6 metre (130 ) before being uprooted October 2007. A small stand trees survived popular attraction, “T Seven Sisters,” memorialized y plaque replacement trees. T death distinctive p Siwash R memorialized replacement. T original y summer 1965, through persistent efforts p staff, replacement finally 1968.

Recreational facilities



Recreational facilities abundant park, having g -existed, albeit uneasily, aesthetic natural p features preferred y those looking p enclave nature y. T heavily favourite facility p users seawall encircling park’s perimeter. Construction 8.8 (5.5 ) seawall around p began 1914, declared finished until 26 September 1971, fully circle p until 1980.

James "Jimmy" Cunningham, master mason, dedicated 32 years construction seawall 1931 until retirement 1963. E after retired, Cunningham p coming ( pyjamas) monitor wall's progress, until death 85 29 September 1963.

T seawall popular destination walking, running, cycling, inline skating. There paths, inline skaters cyclists other pedestrians. T section around outside p -y cyclists inline skaters, running counter-clockwise. T walkway extended several times currently 22 kilometres , making world's longest uninterrupted waterfront walkway. Unofficially, starts Canada Place downtown core, around Stanley Park, along English By beach, around False Creek, finally Kitsilano Beach. F there, trail continues 600 metres west, connecting additional 12 kilometres beaches pathways which terminate mouth Fraser River. T December 2006 storm subjected parts p portion seawall mudslides falling debris, forcing p staff close extended repair period.



Ly-covered Beaver L.

T miniature railroad built leveled y Typhoon Freda 1960s especially popular “Halloween Train” “Christmas Train” during those seasons. T p contains tennis courts, 18- Pitch p g course, seaside swimming p Second Beach, Brockton O track sports, rugby, cricket. F entertainment, there Aquarium, Canada’s first largest since opened 1956, Malkin Bowl, rebuilt after 1980s local Theatre Under Stars.

Animals

Henry Avison, first zookeeper p ranger, feeding .

Until 1996, attraction p , which g collection animals begun y first p superintendent, Henry Avison, after captured black chained stump. Avison subsequently named y pound keeper, collection animals formed basis original , which eventually housed 50 animals, including snakes, wolves, emus, buffalo, kangaroos, monkeys, Humboldt penguins.

I 1994, plans developed upgrade Stanley Park's , Vancouver voters instead decided phase question posed referendum. T Stanley P Z closed completely December 1997 after remaining animal, polar named T, g 36. H remained after other animals because g. T polar p, often criticised y animal rights activists, converted demonstration salmon spawning hatchery. Captive animals still viewed Children’s Farmyard. Numerous varieties animals park, including 200 species, peacocks descended , other -native species.

T Vancouver Aquarium located p. Since establishment 1956, Aquarium become largest Canada houses collection marine includes dolphins, belugas, lions, Harbour seals, otters. T popular children's song, By Beluga, inspired y whales facility. I total, there approximately 300 species fish, 30,000 invertebrates, 56 species amphibians reptiles, around 60 mammals birds. T p board approved $80 million expansion Aquarium November 2006, following considerable public debate despite vocal opposition concerned about animal rights p trees required y expansion.

Mammals include large raccoon population, coyotes, rabbits descended discarded pets, thriving Gy squirrel population descending eight pairs given g N York's Central P 1909.

Monuments

T totem poles largest tourist draws province.

O years large random collection monuments accumulated Stanley Park, consisting statues, plaques, various other memorials commemorating large variety things. Among these statues L Stanley, p Robert Burns, Olympic runner Harry Jerome, President Harding; plaques commemorating wreck SS Beaver, sinking Chehalis ( tugboat collided MV Princess Victoria Stanley P), Pauline Johnson’s burial site, Salvation Ay; replica RMS Empress Japan figurehead; timber--stump archway replaced original Lumbermen’s A built y lumber workers visit y D Connaught, which ultimately succumbed . T original py Parthenon's front, using whole trees columns gable, originally located Duke's carriage route Homer Pender Streets before moved p. T Lumberman's A built public washrooms change rooms, p- showers adjoining former Lumberman's A Pool, waterpark.

Gardens common commemoration p. T windstorm 2006 revealed traces g-forgotten garden T House railway, which park's attractions largest - objects y . A monument Nisei British Columbia immediately Aquarium accompanied y planting Japanese maple flowering cherry other plants Japan.

Reflecting p should p natural state already saturated, p board banned erection y further memorials. I considered exception , p board agreed 2006 build playground Ceperley Meadows Second Beach honouring victims A India Flight 182 bombing. T federal government earmarked $800,000 build playground, which completed summer 2007. A local historian suggested appropriateness memorials marking sites communities displaced making p Lumbermen’s A (W Whoi, Xwayxway), Prospect Point (Chaythoos), Brockton Point, Kanaka Rancherie ( Denman Street), although formal proposal p forth.