Brockton Point Lighthouse

Brockton Point Lighthouse is one of the best places in Stanley Park to take stunning pictures.

From here you have a magnificent view of Burrard Inlet and you can also see the Lions Gate Bridge that takes you over to the North Shore.

This is also a prime spot to see the cruise ships heading to and from the Cruise Ship Terminal on the Alaskan cruise route and see the freighters coming to unload cars and other cargo and then reload with wheat, coal and sulphur to take to the Asia-Pacific market.

Across the way from Brockton Point Lighthouse you’ll see bright yellow piles of sulphur and sometimes you’ll see black piles and that’s coal.

The first Brockton Point Lighthouse here at Brockton Point was originally built in 1890 to help ships navigate Burrard Inlet

Not far from the lighthouse is the nine o’clock gun. It used to be fired at 6:00pm by the lighthouse keeper to warn fishermen that fishing was now closed but later became a customary signal to the general public that it was 9:00pm.

The nine o’clock gun is electronically fired now and if you’re standing nearby there’s usually a few lights to warn you that it’s about to go off. Though it still catches the occasional tourist by surprise which can be an interesting spectacle on its own! you can hear them scream with surprise all the way from Brockton Point. (about 300 meters away!)

Also near by is the burial ground of the Indian Princess Pauline Johnson. She is the only person to be buried in Stanley Park.

Johnson is the one who gave Lost Lagoon it’s name. She named it because at one time before the causeway that divides Stanley Park was built, the tide would come in from Coal Harbour and fill the lake and when the tide went out again the lake would be lost.

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Amphitheatre
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Beaches
Brockton Oval
Coal Harbour
English Bay
Empress of Japan
General Tips
Girl in Wet Suit
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Horse Drawn Carriage Ride
Lawn Bowling
Lumbermen’s Arch
Hollow Tree
Lost Lagoon
Lions Gate Bridge
Miniature Railway
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Prospect Point
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Seawall
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Totem Poles
Rose Garden
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