Vancouver – Stanley Park – Part 3

This extract is from ‘Travel Tales from Exotic Places like Salford’

At Lumberman’s Arch there is a children’s water park. From here it is a short walk to the Vancouver Aquarium and to the Stanley Park Miniature Railway. The span of the Lion’s Gate Bridge will have been visible for a while. This bridge, completed in 1938, stands 80 metres above the water and was modelled after the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.

The Lions Gate Bridge is named after the body of water it crosses. The Lions are the two sugar loaf peaks on the North Shore. Just past the bridge is Prospect Point the highest point in the park, where you can watch the shipping coming in and out of the port of Vancouver. A cairn commemorates the SS Beaver which sank nearby in 1888. The next sight along the seawall is the 15-metre high Siwash Rock, slightly apart from the rest of the park, which is the subject of an Indian legend recorded a century ago by the Mohawk poet Pauline Johnson, who is buried nearby.