John Hendry Park (Trout Lake Park)

This guide to John Hendry Park's Trout Lake in Vancouver opens with city trucks pumping drinking water into the lake each summer, then traces how a hemlock peat bog became a nineteenth-century engineering project, rerouted by loggers to feed timber baron John Hendry's Hastings Sawmill. You'll hear how Hendry's daughter later donated the land to the city on one condition, naming it for her father, and how the creek that once fed the lake was buried by the twentieth century. Notice the willows and the Saturday farmers market as you walk the shoreline.