Vancouver

This stop separates the documented origin of the name from later stories of slaughterhouses and gallows.

Here, the park's maritime service becomes a story of watch duty, rescue, and an unsuccessful descent to the water.

Here, the harbor's ceremonial facade meets the story of a ship that was never allowed to dock.

The garden will show how traditional construction had to be reconciled with local regulations and ongoing expenses.

A single surviving address will put a family restaurant and a vanished Black neighborhood back on the map.

This stop will connect the poetic name with the physical transformation of a tidal bay.

This stop will show how an ornament for a single city passage acquired a second location and a second structure.

The finale will link the redevelopment of Strathcona with the parents' campaign for a safe route to school.

Here, Gastown’s founding legend leads to an intersection that has outlived a bar, a hotel, and a maple tree.

The gate will show the urban compromise the community needed to create a visible boundary for Chinatown.

The height above the narrows makes it possible to piece together the ship's fate from traces left on shore and underwater.

Geology and legend offer two different answers to the question of why the rock stands apart from the shore.

The scrap of land left after the street was widened reveals an entrepreneurial response to expropriation.

The finale brings together the material once gathered here and the city beach along a single stretch of shore.

These facades show how community organizations stood in for family for newcomers and worked for family reunification.

Here, the street layout meets the history of the first saloon, which vanished along with the hotel and the old maple.

Here it will become clear why the city entered the park through this narrow strip of land and water.

The row of poles helps trace who decided which carvings would represent Indigenous peoples to park visitors.

Here, a commercial view of the city will be linked to a missing boot print.

The finale will show how a place for recruiting and collecting aid became the city’s main memorial.

You will see how a decorative commission turned into a long engineering experiment.

This stop will show how a single overnight relocation secured Vancouver's role as the western terminus.

The rescued postal archive will turn a trading house into testimony to families separated by an ocean.