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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut
NYC's Central Park, right? Yup, what I'm trying to say is that the ones listed above are more like lawns with trees - Stanley, Central in Burnaby and Pacific Spirit are actual millennia-old forests. That's something unique and worth keeping.
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I entirely agree about keeping the parks pretty much as they are, but Stanley Park is far from a millennia-old forest. With the exception of literally a handful of older trees, everything was cut down through the later part of the 19th Century. You can still see the stumps in some places, often feet across, with the notches for the springboards used by the tree fellers.
Like New York's Central Park it has meadows and formal gardens (and also the Aquarium, and soon, a brewery), but unlike most parks, including New York, it wasn't really designed by anybody, but rather evolved over time, with different elements added and removed over the years (like the petting zoo). And of course it changed a lot in 2006, when the storm removed 10,000 trees (six years after the huge outcry over losing 35 trees for the widened causeway).