Ocean Park

Ocean Park (49˚02'00" 122˚52'00" E side of Boundary Bay, in Surrey, SE of Vancouver). The name was chosen by Methodist minister William Pascoe Goard (1862–1937) and may have originally been suggested by municipal official and realtor Henry Thrift. Goard purchased property at this location in the early 1900s for a church retirement community and waterfront retreat; the land was later held by the Ocean Park Syndicate, a group of Lower Mainland Methodists. The Great Northern Rwy built a...

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