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Highlights include Blood Alley, Brockton Point Lighthouse, Canada Place, Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Vancouver and Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, Hogan’s Alley and Union Street, Lost Lagoon.

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  1. Blood Alley: story on the “Port, Railway, and Gastown” route

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

  2. Brockton Point Lighthouse: story on the “Stanley Park Along the Water” route

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

  3. Canada Place: story on the “Port, Railway, and Gastown” route

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

  4. Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Vancouver and Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden: story on the “Chinatown and Strathcona: Streets of Mutual Aid and Protest” route

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

  5. Hogan’s Alley and Union Street: story on the “Chinatown and Strathcona: Streets of Mutual Aid and Protest” route

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

  6. Lost Lagoon: story on the “Stanley Park Along the Water” route

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

  7. Lumberman's Arch: story on the “Stanley Park Along the Water” route

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

  8. MacLean Park and the Militant Mothers of Raymur Overpass: story on the “Chinatown and Strathcona: Streets of Mutual Aid and Protest” route

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

  9. Maple Tree Square: story on the “Port, Railway, and Gastown” route

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

  10. Millennium Gate: story on the “Chinatown and Strathcona: Streets of Mutual Aid and Protest” route

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

  11. Prospect Point: story on the “Stanley Park Along the Water” route

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

  12. Rock by the western cliff: story on the “Stanley Park Along the Water” route

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

  13. Sam Kee Building: story on the “Chinatown and Strathcona: Streets of Mutual Aid and Protest” route

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

  14. Second Beach and the public shore: story on the “Stanley Park Along the Water” route

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

  15. Societies on Pender Street: story on the “Chinatown and Strathcona: Streets of Mutual Aid and Protest” route

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

  16. The Green Carrall Street and Maple Tree Square: story on the “Chinatown and Strathcona: Streets of Mutual Aid and Protest” route

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

  17. The Narrow Passage at Coal Harbour: story on the “Stanley Park Along the Water” route

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

  18. Totem Poles at Brockton Point: story on the “Stanley Park Along the Water” route

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

  19. Vancouver Lookout: story on the “Port, Railway, and Gastown” route

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

  20. Victory Square: story on the “Port, Railway, and Gastown” route

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

  21. Water Street and the Gastown Steam Clock: story on the “Port, Railway, and Gastown” route

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

  22. Waterfront Station: story on the “Port, Railway, and Gastown” route

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

  23. Wing Sang Building and the Chinese Canadian Museum: story on the “Chinatown and Strathcona: Streets of Mutual Aid and Protest” route

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