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Ringed by a seawall and covering some four hundred hectares of forest, shoreline and gardens on a peninsula reaching into the harbour, Stanley Park is the great green heart of Vancouver and among the largest urban parks in North America. Opened in 1888 and named after the Governor General of the day, the park was created not from landscaped grounds but from a tract of dense temperate rainforest, much of which has been left to grow, so that visitors walking its inner trails pass beneath towering...