Vancouver Holiday

Using the last of our Airmile points, we are discovering Vancouver. We stopped at the Golden Tree, a sculpture by Coupland.
Now the Hollow Tree – an 800-year-old Western Red Cedar in Stanley Park – has become a work of art. Vancouver artist Douglas Coupland unveiled his concept for a full-scale replica of the tree, which was installed in 2015 near a new highrise residential development in the Cambie Corridor. The 43-foot gold-finished sculpture – the Golden Tree – is set against a large-scale image of the Stanley Park forest, which is on the glass behind. The real Hollow Tree, badly damaged in a 2006 windstorm, was slated for removal but after much outcry, was stabilized with funding from private donors. He chose gold to signify happiness and warm memories of visiting the tree in the park as a child.

Our next stop was Queen Elizabeth Park. The quarry garden was colourful and the view remains over downtown.

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Chinatown was interesting as I used to go to Keefer St. as a child with my dad to pick up cut flowers for our greenhouses in Haney. It's still there, now part of the Trans Canada Trail that we saw in Victoria.

                              The original granite cobblestones are still in use.

           Chinatown Gate.

Our favourite Vancouver drive is going past Lost Lagoon and around Stanley Park and seeing the Girl in a Wetsuit.

Us at the original Hollow Tree.

We stopped at Davies St. where Ron used to live, now called Davie Village.

This used to be Dunker's DoNuts, where we poor nursing students occasionally had a coffee which we could barely afford on our $6 stipend.

We settled into our hotel at Davie and Denman and enjoyed the beach, people and ships.

 This asculpturre is here to add joy and smiles.