Kitsilano Beach
Sandy waterfront park with mountain and skyline views, near a tidal saltwater pool fed by the bay.
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This guide to Kitsilano Beach in Vancouver opens in September 1891, when a deputy sheriff named Tom Armstrong arrives with police and hired muscle to evict Sam Greer, a former Union soldier who had farmed this shoreline for a decade. It follows what happened when Greer refused to leave, the public sympathy that turned against the railway company backing the eviction, and the decade locals kept calling this stretch Greer's Beach. A saltwater pool later opened along the same shore, filled straight from English Bay.
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