Queen Elizabeth Park, British Columbia

Queen Elizabeth Park is a park in the Canadian city of Vancouver. It is located in the district of South Cambie and is 52 acres in size. In the park of Little Mountain, 167 meters above sea level is the highest point of the city. The main attractions are an arboretum, a greenhouse with aviary and a statue of Henry Moore ( Bloedel Floral Conservatory ), a golf course, a disc -golf course and tennis courts.

At the beginning of the 20th century it was a quarry, was recovered from the material for road construction. In 1930 the tulips Society of British Columbia 's proposal to convert the quarry into a park. A few years later, the site was sold to the city parking authority which the Queen Elizabeth devoted (the mother of Queen Elizabeth II ), in 1939 with her husband, King George VI. Canada attended. With the financial support of the Canadian paper industry association municipal employees walked the grounds in an English landscape park around.

The forestry business Prentice Bloedel donated 1.25 million CAD ​​, thereby allowing the construction of the first greenhouse in Canada with a geodesic dome. The opening of the Bloedel Floral Conservatory took place on 6 December 1969.

In the 1990s several episodes of the television series Stargate were filmed in the park.