First Narrows

First Narrows (49˚19'00" 123˚08'00" N of Prospect Point, Burrard Inlet, Vancouver). The entrance to Vancouver Hbr was named by RN surveyor Capt George Richards (as was Second Narrows) about 1859–60. Lions Gate, a more dramatic catchphrase drawn from The Lions—the twin guardian peaks that overlook the inlet from the N Shore—was suggested about 1890 by BC Supreme Court judge John Gray and later adopted as the name of the bridge across the narrows, completed in 1938. Both in name and...

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