Stanley Park

Stanley Park (49˚18'00" 123˚08'30" At Vancouver, Burrard Inlet, S entrance to Vancouver Hbr). This 4-sq-km urban oasis, site of the early Squamish First Nation village of Khwaykhway, was named a government military reserve by Col Richard Moody of the Royal Engineers in 1860. It was leased to the city of Vancouver as a park in 1887 and officially opened the following year, named by Sir Donald Smith, the railroad financier and former HBC gov, after Sir Frederick Arthur Stanley, 1st Baron...

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