Stanley Park Seawall

This guide to the Stanley Park Seawall in Vancouver introduces James Cunningham, the Scottish stonemason who spent decades from 1910 onward hand-selecting and cutting the granite blocks beneath your feet, sometimes dangling from a rope at low tide in his pajamas. It follows the unlikely crews who built it alongside him, from Depression-era laborers working for almost nothing to sailors sent to sober up on his crew after a rough night in Gastown. Listen for where a city cemetery's broken headstones ended up.