Deep Cove
Seaside village at a fjord's edge, framed by a granite quarry cliff turned lookout above a kayak-filled cove.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Deep Cove in Vancouver follows the granite cliff above the water from Tsleil-Waututh fishing grounds and eighteen-hundreds whaling shores to a quarry camp that blasted the rock for decades, off and on into the 1960s. It traces the payroll the quarrying brought this small inlet, and the day in 1965 when the blasting finally stopped for good. Look for the cliff's scars as you climb the Baden-Powell Trail toward the water views below.
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