Queen Elizabeth Park (Vancouver)
The Queen Elizabeth Park is a park in the Canadian city of Vancouver .
location
The 52 hectare park is located in the South Cambie district. Next to Little Mountain , the highest point in the city at 167 meters above sea level, there is an arboretum , a greenhouse with an aviary and a statue of Henry Moore (Bloedel Floral Conservatory) , a golf course , a disc golf course and tennis courts in the park .
history
At the beginning of the 20th century there was a quarry from which material for road construction was extracted. 1930 made tulips Society of British Columbia 's proposal to convert the quarry into a park. A few years later the site was sold to the City Park Authority, who dedicated it to Queen Elizabeth , who in 1939 along with her husband King George VI. Visited Canada. With financial support from the Canadian Paper Industry Association, city workers converted the site into an English landscaped garden .
Forestry entrepreneur Prentice Bloedel donated $ 1.25 million, making it possible to build Canada's first greenhouse with a geodesic dome . The Bloedel Floral Conservatory opened on December 6, 1969.
Several episodes of the television series Stargate were filmed in the park in the 1990s .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 14 '32 " N , 123 ° 6' 54" W.