Prospect Point
Prospect Point is the highest lookout in Stanley Park, and overlooks
Burrard Inlet. In the 1800s, it was known as Obervation Point.
In 1888, the HBC steamship
Beaver wrecked at the point, which prompted the construction of a signal station.
- 1. G. P. V. Akrigg and H. B. Akrigg, British Columbia Place Names (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1997), 217.
- 2. Prospect Point, Vancouver Info Center.
Mentions of this place in the documents