Mr. Henry Herbert Stevens, Conservative:
"I am one of those who are exceedingly anxious to do everything that is humanly possible to preserve our national parks for the people...Take Stanley Park at Vancouver. It is a large area for a city park, I think 900 acres. It is leased by the Dominion government to the city of Vancouver."
1986 - Potential transfer of title from the federal government to the City of Vancouver.
House of Commons Debates Ottawa February 4, 1986
Right Honourable John N. Turner (Leader of the Opposition-Liberal.)
"Mr. Speaker, in April of this year Canada will join the citizens of Vancouver in celebrating the centennial of that great city. Along with Expo itself, a major focus of Vancouver's celebrations will be in Stanley Park, the largest urban park in the country.
" From time immemorial Vancouverites have claimed the park as their own. Our native people have lived and hunted in the park, and generations of British Columbians have enjoyed its trees, its water, and the beautiful view of the snow-capped mountains. Perhaps no park in Canada evokes such civic pride and such a feeling of identification as Stanley Park. The park belongs to Vancouver in all but name. In fact, it belongs to the federal government.
"As a symbolic gesture to the city I am asking the Prime Minister (Mr. Mulroney) to recognize the historic association of the people of Vancouver with Stanley Park and to dedicate the property over to the citizens of Vancouver in its centennial year."
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Prime Minister of Canada John Turner and my Dad George Shaw, who was a speechwriter for Members of Parliament (see my May 24, 2018 blog "The de Havilland Saga."); a United Press International reporter and a member of the National Press Club of Ottawa.
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