Stanley Park’s Secret: The Forgotten Families of Whoi Whoi, Kanaka Ranch, and Brockton Point

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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 talk over with Stanley Park, a 400-hectare (1000-acre) haven of beauty that offers a backdrop of majestic cedars and firs and an environment teeming with natural world just steps from the sidewalks and skyscrapers of Vancouver. But few visitors stop to contemplate the name of the game past of British Columbia’s hottest tourist destination.

Officially opened in 1888, Stanley Park was once born alongside the city of Vancouver, so it’s easy to assume that the park was once a pristine wilderness when it was once first created. But much of it had been logged and it was once home to various settlements. Aboriginal people lived at the villages of Whoi Whoi, now Lumberman’s Arch, and nearby Chaythoos. One of the most immigrant Hawaiians earlier employed in the fur trade took jobs at the lumber mills that dotted Burrard Inlet from the 1860s and settled at “Kanaka Ranch,” which was once situated just out of doors the park’s southeast boundary. Others resided at Brockton Point on the peninsula’s eastern tip. Only in 1958 was once the last of the many families forced out of their homes and the park returned to its supposed “pristine” character.

Working in collaboration with descendants of the families who once lived in the park area, historian Jean Barman skilfully weaves together the families’ stories with archival documents, Vancouver Parks Board records and court proceedings to reveal a troubling, yet deeply important facet of BC’s history.

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