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VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Practical Information
2099 Beach Ave. Tel (604) 257-
8400. Open 24 hrs daily (not all
sights). & to some exhibits. 7
8 0 - S h Horse-drawn
North Shore carriage tours: (Mar–Oct), call
. The Seawall (604) 681-5115. Stanley Park
Prospect
The Seawall winds around the rim of the park past Shuttle: (Jun–Sep). Special events,
Point • Girl in a Wetsuit, a sculpture by Elek Imredy. This curious
J call (604) 473-6204.
sculpture, which sits on an offshore rock, was introduced ∑ vancouver.ca
to the park in 1972.
Transport
 Burrard. @ 19.
0 meters 400 Vancouver Aquarium Marine
0 yards 500 Science Centre
SEAWALL WALK
The surprisingly graceful white
beluga whales are the stars of
Canada’s premier aquarium.
Among the other 70,000 creatures
to see here are sea otters, wolf
eels, and penguins.
Burrard
RAVINE TRAIL Inlet
LAKE TRAIL Beaver PIPELINE ROAD
STANLEY PARK CAUSEWAY
Lake
AVISON WAY J Rose Garden

From May to
September, the lovely
BROCKTON POINT TRAIL formal Rose Garden,
NORTH LAGOON DRIVE Hallelujah Point • variety of per ennial
surrounded by a
plantings, looks its
Coal Harbour very best.
Deadman’s
Island
LAGOON DRIVE
. Brockton Point
Features of the point are a
1915 lighthouse and the
Nine O’Clock Gun, a cannon
that has stood sentinel in the
W GEORGIA STREET
park since 1894. Still fired
nightly, its boom once
helped sailors synchronize
their chronometers.
Totem Park
Situated beside Brockton Oval,
where the city’s first cricket match
was played in the late 1800s, this
area displays nine totem poles.
Created by the Haida, Kwakiutl, Key
and other indigenous peoples,
each totem tells its own story. Seawall walk
For key to symbols see back flap

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