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History of Metro Vancouver: Lost Lagoon, 1916

City of Vancouver Archives Pan N54. W.J. Moore photo. 1916 Lost Lagoon Stanley Park’s Lost Lagoon was separated in 1916 from the sea by a causeway, turning it into an artificial lake.

 City of Vancouver Archives Pan N54. W.J. Moore photo.City of Vancouver Archives Pan N54. W.J. Moore photo.

1916

Lost Lagoon

Stanley Park’s Lost Lagoon was separated in 1916 from the sea by a causeway, turning it into an artificial lake. The lake received its name from writer Pauline Johnson, who remarked how the lagoon disappeared at low tide.

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