Queen Elizabeth Park

QUEEN ELIZABETH PARK (53 ha) is a landscaped oasis of gardens and trees in south VANCOUVER. The highest point in the city (el 152 m), it is known to locals as Little Mountain (also the name of the surrounding neighbourhood), though it was named officially to commemorate the 1939 visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. The park was once the site of two quarries, where stone was obtained for building roads. One of them was converted in 1908 to a city water reservoir, which...

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