Tourist attraction in Stanley park, Canada

Stanley park

Opening and dedication: Stanley Monument unveiled 19 May 1960  dedicating the park to the use and enjoyment of people of all colours and creeds and customs for all time. On September 27, 1888 the park was officially opened (although the legal status of Deadman's Island as part of the park would remain ambiguous for many years).

The park was named after Lord Stanley who had recently become Canada's sixth governor general (and who is perhaps best known today for having donated the Stanley Cup that was later hunded down to the National Hockey League). Mayor David Oppenheimer gave a formel the park to the public and delivering authority for its management to the park committee. The following year Lord Stanley became the first governor general to visit British Columbia when he officially dedicated the park. Mayor Oppenheimer led a procession of vehicles around Brockton Point along the newly completed Park Road to the clearing at Prospect Point. An observer at the event wrote: Lord Stanley threw his arms to the heavens as though embracing within them the whole of 1,000 acres [400 ha] of primeval forest and dedicated it to the use and enjoyment of peoples of all colours creeds and customs for all time. I name the Stanley Stanley Park.

Tourist attraction in Granville Island

Popular Granville Island

 History: The peninsula was originally used by First Nations as a fishing area. North west Granville Island in 1922. Many of the buildings shown here are still standing as of 2006. The city of Vancouver was called Granville until it was renamed in 1886 but the former name was kept and given to Granville Street which spanned the small inlet known as False Creek. False Creek in the late 19th century was more than twice today's size and its tidal flats included a large permanent sandbar over which spanned the original rickety wooden Granville Street bridge. This sandbar which would eventually become Granville Island was first mapped by Captain George Henry Richards in the British Boundary Commission's naval expdition in 1858-59 and the island today conforms roughly to the size and shape documented
at that time.

Popular tourist attraction in Vancouver Island

The western side of Vancouver Island hosts a rainforest : Vancouver Island lies in the temperate rainforest biome. On the southern and eastern portions of the island this is characterized by Douglas fir western red cedar arbutus (or madrone) Garry oak salal Oregon grape and manzanita moreover Vancouver Island is the location where the Douglas fir was first recorded by Archibald Menzies Vancouver Island is also the location where some of the tallest Douglas fir were recorded. This southeastern portion of the island is the most heavily populated region of Vancouver Island and a or area for recreation. The northern western and most of the central portions of the island are home to the coniferous big trees associated with British Columbia's coast western hemlock estern red cedar pacific silver fir yellow cedar Douglas fir grand fir Sitka spruce and western white pine. It is also characterised by bigleaf maple red alder sword fern and red huckleberry. The fauna of Vancouver Island is similar to that found on the mainland coast with some notable exceptions and additions.