Talk:English Bay, Vancouver/Archive 1

Archive 1

History of English Bay Beach material and notes

While making my requests at the Vancouver Wikiproject pages just now, and thinking of "the Orillia" which used to be on Robson at Seymour (or Richards...??), it brought to mind the Anglesea, properly the Anglesea Lodge which was the last of the sea-front apartments which used to line the beach side of Beach Avenue; down by the Sylvia, maybe half a block farther ( a list of famous residents of the Sylvia would be very interesting btw). There were six or seven of these along the water side, built onto piers in some cases and abutting the rocky part of the beach; I think some were beack east of the bathhouse; and the batthouse in its glory days should be depicted, from the "golden age" before the Great War; this is where the public-domain archival photos issue that Bobanny came up with gets interesting in terms of illustrating what is hard to put into words; the proverbial "one picture is worth..." thing, and then some. I'll see what can be found out about the Anglesea - a major heritage battle, ultimately lost. Similarly at the other end of Denman there was that protest/eco/peace park I've forgotten the name of and which lasted for years, at Denman and Georgia, which was a huge and long-standing hippie sit-in to prevent that getting turned into the same kind of twin monstrosities that are on the other side of Denman, same side of Georgia; they weren't as successful with stopping the big three-way building at the southwest foot of the Burrard Bridge, which was a Tom Terrific-involved thing (Tom Campbell, the mayor back then, was into land wheeling and dealing like certain other ex-Vancouver mayors) - that was supposed to be a hotel, by the way, until a conflict-of-interest thing and political opposition nixed the idea and it wound up as apartments; but that's Kitsilano history, not English Bay, meaning Beach Avenue and the Sylvia-Anglesea glory days, which should be either in this article, or separately. Joe Fortes also figures prominently in the flavour and story of that era of the beach of course, as does the Polar Bear Swim; this article could become as well-developed as Bobanny's Stanley Park once the place's whole story gets told....oh found some interesting stuff on Joe Greer re why Kits Beach is a beach - it was "Greer's Beach", but the story's kind of a wild one; I'll make a point of adding it to the Kitsilano Beach article for sure...Skookum1 09:59, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

The Seawall goes to Wreck?

The Vancouver Seawall runs all the way around English Bay from Stanley Park in the northeast, around False Creek, and down to Wreck Beach on the Georgia Strait in the southwest.

It does? By my memory, it ends at the Kitsilano Pool, and goes no farther; and a public walkway doesn't start again until the near end of Jericho, by Alma and Point Grey Rd. Unless I haven't been down that way lately, but I'm pretty sure it's rocks, mud, kelp and starfish between about Larch and Alma....(extension of the seawall in front of all those zillion-dollar homes on Point Grey Road isn't very likely, either).Skookum1 19:24, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

I've explored the area along the water many times around wreck beach, and walked along the rocks all the way to spanish banks. No seawall near wreck. Kits pool sounds about right for the end of it, I'll have to go walk down there soon and inspect. RodrigoWarrior (talk) 04:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)