Pacific Spirit Regional Park
Old-growth forest preserve laced with trails, logging-era stumps, and unceded Musqueam land.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Pacific Spirit Regional Park in Vancouver starts on April 23, 1989, the day officials dedicated the forest as parkland after a fight that stopped developers from paving it into subdivisions. Musqueam elder Gail Sparrow and others showed up that same day too, not to celebrate but to confront the province's premier over land that had never been surrendered and had been used since 1907 to fund the University of British Columbia. From there the guide traces what the loggers cleared before the 1920s and points you toward the park's western edge, where the terrain grew too steep for their saws to follow.
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