Stanley Park's Secret

by Jean Barman

Book Overview

Finalist for 2006 BC Book Prize - Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize

Shortlisted for George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in B.C. Writing and Publishing

Each year, over eight million people visit Stanley Park, a 400-hectare (1000-acre) haven of beauty that offers a backdrop of majestic cedars and firs and an environment teeming with wildlife just steps from the sidewalks and skyscrapers of Vancouver. But few visitors stop to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550174207
• ISBN13: 9781550174205
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Harbour Publishing
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Quintessential Barman: Exposing the truth behind the colonial facade in Vancouver, BC.

Stanley Park - the "pristine" jewel in the crown of the city of Vancouver is exposed for what is - a colonial machination! Barman at her best deconstructs the creation of the Park even as she illuminates the erasures of the local Indigenous population that had inhabited the land and waterfront for millennia. She traces the stories of the families that were dispossessed through the colonization of places of special meaning in the evolving province to the present. There is nothing pristine about the "park". Jean always provides us with a new way of seeing familiar places and spaces, helping us to take the blinders off and "awake" to the realities which are our historical legacy.