Visitor Attractions in British Columbia - Stanley Park, Vancouver Aquarium, British Columbia Wildlife Park, Playland, Greater Vancouver Zoo (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Stanley Park, Vancouver Aquarium, British Columbia Wildlife Park, Playland, Greater Vancouver Zoo, Bloedel Floral Conservatory, Butchart Gardens, Shaw Ocean Discovery Centre, Ucluelet Aquarium, Pacific Undersea Gardens, Victoria Butterfly Gardens, Columbia Icefield, VanDusen Botanical Garden, Vanier Park, Queen Elizabeth Park, British Columbia, Lighthouse Park, Hastings Park, Nisga'a Memorial Lava Beds Provincial Park, Park and Tilford Gardens, Central Park, UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research, Okanagan Game Farm, Victoria Bug Zoo, Whitewater recreation in British Columbia, Belcarra Regional Park. Excerpt: Stanley Park is a 404.9 hectare (1,001 acre) urban park bordering downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was opened in 1888 by David Oppenheimer in the name of Lord Stanley of Preston, the Governor-General of Canada. It is more than 10% larger than New York City's Central Park and almost half the size of London's Richmond Park. The park attracts an estimated eight million visitors every year, including locals and tourists, who come for its recreational facilities and its natural attributes. An 8.8 kilometres (5.5 mi) seawall path circles the park, which is used by 2.5 million pedestrians, cyclists, and inline skaters every year. Much of the park remains forested with an estimated half million trees that can be as tall as 76 metres (249 ft) and hundreds of years old. There are approximately 200 kilometres (120 mi) of trails and roads in the park, which are patrolled by the Vancouver Police Department's equine mounted squad. The Project for Public Spaces has ranked Stanley Park as the sixteenth best park in the world and sixth best in North America. The area of the park is the traditional territory of several different indigenous tribes. On the Burrard Inlet and Howe Sound regions, Squamish ...