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Stanley Park, located at the tip of the peninsula that is the core of Vancouver, had originally been set aside for a fort, to protect Canada's main Pacific port of Vancouver from a possible US invasion in the 19th Century. (After all, both the US and the UK were vying for the control of Vancouver, before it became part of a new Canada.) The land became the park that it is today, when the US invasion threat dissipated; today, the main US invasion here is in the form of tourism.

Stanley Park is named after Lord Stanley, Canada's first Governor-General; National Hockey League's Stanley Cup is also named after it. (Sadly the Vancouver Canucks have never been able to win the Stanley Cup - 2012 saw the Canucks get cut down by none other than my Los Angeles's own Kings, who went on to win it.)

A nice rest area in Stanley Park with great views of Lions Gate Bridge and North Vancouver.
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Author InSapphoWeTrust from Los Angeles, California, USA
Camera location49° 18′ 47.34″ N, 123° 08′ 37.29″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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