Vancouver Centennial Plaque #86 – Gun Emplacements

Address:           Stanley Park (placed in estimated area)

Status:             Missing

“GUN EMPLACEMENTS

In August 1914 volunteers built the first artillery emplacements at Siwash Point. A month later the army established a second battery at Point Chey. With Japan's increasing aggression in the 1930's installations were rebuilt to cover the harbour from here and Ferguson Point.”

Credit: Vancouver Centennial Commission, Historic Plaque Program – list and documentation plaques 50-100 (June 18, 1986). Courtesy of Vancouver Archives

Photo credit: Vancouver Archives (AM54-S4- St Pk P228.1)