Seymour Valley Trail
Paved ten-kilometer forest path along a protected river valley leading to a guarded reservoir supplying city drinking water.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Seymour Valley Trail in North Vancouver follows how a thirst crisis in 1905 sent mayor Frederick Buscombe looking for a second water source beyond the Capilano River, leading to a nine-hundred-ninety-nine-year lease sealing off this valley from loggers and homesteaders. You'll hear how the original 1908 wooden pipeline gave way to steel in 1927, and how the dam built the following year was later enlarged to hold back a reservoir over six kilometers long. Listen for ferns and second-growth trees along the path, standing where old-growth forest was once cut for lumber.
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