Rocky Point’s waterfront park
Easily reachable by SkyTrain or in about 20 minutes by West Coast Express from downtown Vancouver, Port Moody has one of the most beautiful parks facing the Burrard Inlet. The train tracks are kind of in the way so I’d suggest taking the 181 or 182 one stop out to Rocky Point to avoid the 15-minute walk. Transfers to the bus can be made for free when coming in by rail.
Train car on display
Rocky Point is really a family destination; there’s a spray park for hot summer days, a selection of waterfront restaurants with plenty of parking, and the Port Moody Station Museum. The Museum may look humble at first, but is actually located on a historically significant location. Next to the old station building and train car on display is the location where the last spike was hammered to complete the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Ducks gathering around a water hole
Here, I feel obliged as a Chinese-Canadian to remind my readers of the plight that our forefathers went through to build and connect Canada. Forced labor, squalid living conditions, and discriminatory practices are just a few of the unscrupulous methods that 17 000 Chinese labourers had to suffer in order to build this great nation. In fact, only 2% of the railway was built by white people, the rest were built by non-white immigrants, many of whom were brought in for the explicit purpose of cheap labor as explained by parliament at the time.
