Prospect Point Lookout
Cliffside viewpoint over a busy harbor entrance, site of a famous nineteenth-century steamship wreck.
This guide to Prospect Point Lookout in Vancouver opens on the night of July 25th, 1888, when a crew too drunk to steer straight ran the steamship Beaver onto the rocks below this cliff. It traces the ship's earlier life hauling furs for the Hudson's Bay Company as the first steamship to work the Pacific Northwest, and the years afterward when Vancouverites treated the wreck as a public souvenir shop, prying loose brass fittings and timber. You'll hear how this stretch of shoreline earned the nickname Calamity Point. Listen for the current swirling beneath Lions Gate Bridge as you look out from the cliff edge.
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