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7 Law Text Culture 98 (2003)
Imperial Legacies (Post) Colonial Identities: Law, Space and the Making of Stanley Park, 1859-2001

handle is hein.journals/lwtexcu7 and id is 102 raw text is: Imperial Legacies (Post)Colonial Identities: Law, Space and the Making of Stanley Park, 1859-20011 Renisa Mawani Beautiful Stanley Park, one of the show parks of America ... has many cultivated spaces, but its chief attraction to both citizen and visitor, is that the park commissioners have kept it, for the most part, in its primeval state. Thus, of all large centers on the continent, Vancouver probably can claim the only large park within its city boundaries, almost as Nature [sic] made it - (The Buzzer 1925)2 Stanley Park isn't just Vancouver's biggest tourist attraction. It's also Van- couver's soul, offering the elusive experience of deep and absolute calm found only in an ancient place - (Grant & Dickson 2003: 9) Stanley Park is the third largest urban park in North America. Located in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia (BC), the 960-acre park was opened by civic authorities in 1888, only two years after the city was incorporated. From early on, Stanley Park became a popular leisure space for Vancouver's 'citizens' and visitors alike. Today, as one of the most frequented tourist destinations in BC, the park remains an important attraction, offering a variety of year round recreational opportunities and drawing approximately 8 million visitors annually (Grant & Dickson 2003, Steele 1985, 1993). Importantly, Stanley Park also occupies a significant geographic and symbolic space in Vancouver's imaginary. Often described as 'the foremost symbol of Canada's most beautiful city' (Steele 1985: 7), the park is celebrated in Law Text Culture Vol 7 2003

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