Today on this day 130 years ago in a town with a population of
400 - a small ceremony of incorporation took place at Jonathan Miller's house. A civic election followed quickly. A month later the first piece of business at the first meeting of Vancouver's first city council, presided over by its first mayor, Malcolm Maclean, was the drafting of a petition to lease from the federal government a 1,000-acre military reserve to be used by the city as a park, That became Stanley Park.
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Source: Vancouverhistory
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