Wendy Poole Park

Wendy Poole Park is a small triangular plot of parkland near the waterfront in the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver, British Columbia. The land is at Alexander Street and the Main Street Overpass, and it was named by the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation for a young aboriginal woman who was murdered nearby in 1989.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include BC Place and Rogers Arena.

BC Place

Stadium

Photo: Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0.

BC Place is a multi-purpose stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Located at the north side of False Creek, it is owned and operated by the BC Pavilion Corporation, a Crown corporation of the province. BC Place is situated 1¼ km southwest of Wendy Poole Park.

Rogers Arena

Stadium

Photo: Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0.

Rogers Arena is a multi-purpose arena at 800 Griffiths Way in Downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Opened in 1995, the arena was known as General Motors Place from its opening until July 6, 2010, when General Motors Canada ended its naming rights sponsorship and a new agreement for those rights was reached with Rogers Communications. Rogers Arena is situated 1 km southwest of Wendy Poole Park.

Vancouver Police Museum

Museum

Photo: Bobanny, Public domain.

The Vancouver Police Museum & Archives opened to commemorate the centennial of the Vancouver Police Department and the City of Vancouver, British Columbia in 1986. Vancouver Police Museum is situated 270 metres southeast of Wendy Poole Park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Downtown Eastside and Japantown.

Downtown Eastside

Neighborhood

Photo: Bobanny, Public domain.

The Downtown Eastside is a neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. One of the city's oldest neighbourhoods, the DTES is the site of a complex set of social issues, including disproportionately high levels of drug use, homelessness, poverty, crime, mental illness and sex work.

Japantown

Neighborhood

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Japantown, Little Tokyo or Paueru-gai is an old neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, located east of Gastown and north of Chinatown, that once had a concentration of Japanese immigrants.

Chinatown

Neighborhood

Photo: MRDXII, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Chinatown is a neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, and is Canada's largest Chinatown. Centred around Pender Street, it is surrounded by Gastown to the north, the Downtown financial and central business districts to the west, the Georgia Viaduct and…

Wendy Poole Park

Type: Park
Description: park in British Columbia, Canada
Category: recreation area
Location: Vancouver, Metro Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude

49.28431° or 49° 17′ 4″ north

Longitude

-123.09964° or 123° 5′ 59″ west

Open location code

84XR7WM2+P4

OpenStreetMap ID

way 37057499

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

Wikidata ID

Q7982758

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