All aboard the Stanley Park Easter Train! The miniature railway is opening up for just a few days this season to celebrate Easter and the first long weekend of spring. Enjoy an egg-citing ride through the forest and look for cotton-tailed inhabitants. After the train ride, kids can meet the Easter Bunny and visit the Bunny Burrow Maze.
Stanley Park Train – John Bollwitt Photo
Stanley Park Easter Train 2022
When: Apri 15-18, 2022 from 10:00am to 4:00pm
Where: The Easter Train is located on Pipeline Road in Stanley Park, via the West Georgia Street park entrance.
Tickets will only be sold online. No refunds or exchanges offered. Ticket holders must be prepared to board the train at the time specified on their tickets due to restrictions on capacity. To avoid long wait times, please arrive no earlier than 30 minutes in advance of your scheduled train ride. Latecomers may not be accommodated due to capacity restrictions.
Visit the Cob House for organic popcorn served up by Stanley Park Ecology Society volunteers, grab a warm beverage from Insomniac’s Coffee, enjoy a rolled and baked to order pastry from The Praguery, and snack on The Tornado Truck‘sMac & Cheese Bites, Potato Tornadoes and Masala Chai.
While you’re in the park, don’t miss the beautiful cherry blossoms which should all be in full bloom that weekend.
Take public transit, ride your bike, or walk to the Easter Train. Pay parking is available in parking lots and streets in Stanley Park. Follow the Stanley Park Railway on Facebook for more info.
Thanks to popular films (and the Internet in general) you’ve probably heard of the Pacific Crest Trail, the West Coast Trail, perhaps the popular Juan de Fuca Trail, but did you know about the Sunshine Coast Trail? Located along the upper Sunshine Coast, this is Canada’s longest hut-to-hut hiking trail and also the only one that’s free.
The 180-kilometre back country hiking experience stretches from Sarah Point in Desolation Sound, across Powell River, and all the way down to Saltery Bay. There are currently 14 huts along the trail that are “first-come, first-sleep”.
The Sunshine Coast Trail (“SCT”) is located within the qathet Regional District (qRD) which includes Lund and the City of Powell River in the traditional territory of the Tla’amin, shíshálh, Klahoose and K’ómoks First Nations.
In 1992 a small group of people founded the Powell River Parks and Wilderness Society (“PAWS”) and started building hiking trails that linked the remaining stands of old growth forests in the region’s front country. The result today is the Sunshine Coast Trail. PAWS is a registered non-profit charitable society that you can support through donations, volunteering, the SCT Passport program, or participating in their events.
If you’re not up for the full 180km or even a smaller multi-day section, you can definitely hike parts of the trail in one full day or even an afternoon. I walked about 4km of it last week with Christine Hollmann of Terracentric Coastal Adventures. She and her team offer everything from zodiac and kayak tours, to guided hikes and custom experiences. Here are some of her day hike suggestions:
Coast Mental Health Foundation will be bringing the 24th Courage To Come Back Awards, presented by Wheaton Precious Metals, straight to British Columbians’ living rooms in TV show format on Saturday, May 14, 2022. The one-hour commercial-free television show will air on Global BC and stream via CityNewsonline starting at 4:30pm.
Hosted by Olympian, former Vancouver Canuck goaltender, and Mental Health advocate Corey Hirsch, the Courage To Come Back TV Show will celebrate the inspiring journeys of five recipients, each of whom have overcome extraordinary adversity to come back, and who give back to their community.
There are five categories: Mental Health, Addiction, Youth, Medical and Physical Rehabilitation.
The event, which usually takes place in a ballroom, is the main opportunity for the community to raise funds for Coast Mental Health. Over the last 24 years, the Awards have celebrated 139 recipients and have raised over $20 million to support people living with mental illness.
The show will also highlight stories from the front lines at Coast Mental Health, as they raise critical funds for people living with mental illness here in BC.
“Never have these stories of resilience and strength been more relevant than now. As the Chair of Coast Mental Health’s Courage To Come Back Awards for 16 years now, I am proud to know these stories of human triumph over adversity will reach so many at a time when hope is so important.
Coast Mental Health has been providing innovative community-based mental health care to those who need it most for 50 years.
It is an established leader in its field, known for high quality, innovative programs and research. As a critical link between hospital services and our communities, Coast Mental Health provides housing, support, and employment programs and services for individuals affected by mental illness, making lasting recovery possible.
Each year, thanks to the generosity of donors, Coast Mental Health provides essential services to almost 6,000 clients living with mental illness, so they can find their meaningful place in our communities – a place to live, a place to connect, and a place to work.
Since 1999, over 2,500 British Columbians have been honoured by their friends and family through a nomination, 134 of whom received these prestigious awards. They are our loved ones, our neighbours, and our friends, who have overcome seemingly insurmountable challenges with courage, strength, and a drive to inspire change and hope in the lives of others.
Miss604 is a proud sponsor of the 2022 Courage To Come Back Awards
From parking lot to park, to coffee spot! The new 0.8-acre park in Downtown Vancouver at the intersection of Smithe and Richards streets is about to get Kafka’s in the Park.
Vancouver Park Board rendering of Smithe and Richards park
Kafka’s in the Park at Smithe and Richards
Known for cultivating neighbourhood gathering places, Kafka’s Coffee Roasting is opening their new downtown café through a dynamic partnership with the Vancouver Park Board and the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association (“DVBIA”).
Located at the corner of Smithe and Richards, the new café will serve as a welcoming, engaging community space for over 10,000 residents and 17,000 employees who live and work within a five-minute walk of the new park, set to open this spring.
Kafka’s in the Park will anchor the park’s southwest entrance, welcoming visitors to this lively new corner of the downtown core. The café aims to seamlessly blend into the park space with a dramatic folding window wall that opens up to the plaza area in warmer weather, allowing seating to flow outdoors. Visitors and neighbours will be able to enjoy quality locally roasted fairly-traded and fresh-crop coffees, tasty house-made sandwiches and pastries, and Kafka’s own fresh house-baked sourdough bread, along with soft-serve ice cream available only at the park.
Owner Aaron Kafka – Katharine Manson photo
The park will have a children’s playground, dynamic walkways and seating areas, lush landscaping and innovative urban architecture. Designed by Scott Cohen in collaboration with the project’s architectural firm, Dialog, the new space will have eye-catching high-contrast graphics and rainbow-tinted lucite mobiles casting coloured light across downtown Vancouver’s urban backdrop. Custom-crafted banquette seating and tubular Marcel Breuer chrome furniture provide functional style while volcanic grey floors, finely crafted local Douglas Fir carpentry, and natural plants round out the aesthetic.
Scott Cohen Design
As a result of both the DVBIA’s desire to strengthen the connection between people and the places they share, and Kafka’s established support of local artists, the Park Board will be engaging the DVBIA and Kafka’s to partner on future park-programming activities.
This weekend Miss604 is proud to sponsor the Portobello West Spring Market happening Saturday and Sunday at Creekside Community Recreation Centre in False Creek, and Spring Break at Burnaby Village Museum is ongoing with free family fun! Find these events and more things to do in Vancouver this weekend listed blow:
