![]() Since the 1980s, Public Dreams Society (no longer in existence) hosted its annual Illuminares in July at John Hendry Park. John Hendry Park and Trout Lake is the site of year round festivities and recreational use. More recently, portions of the shoreline have been allowed to return to a natural state and the park has become popular for public gatherings, as well as becoming the site of a weekly Farmer’s Market – harbinger of the trend to local food and urban agriculture in the modern city.Ī legacy of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, the new Trout Lake Community Centre provides a gathering place for community to enjoy recreational activities and is jointly operated by the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation and the Grandview Community Centre Association. A LEED Gold Facility designed by Walter Francl Architecture Inc., the facility includes: ice rink, gymnasium, 4000 square foot fitness centre, training room, dance studio, 2 large multipurpose rooms, art studio, pottery studio, teen/seniors centre, mat room, music room, licensed preschool, meeting rooms, café and an outdoor performance plaza. In 1926, the Hambers donated part of their land at the Trout Lake site to the Vancouver Park Board under the condition that it be called “John Hendry Park”.Īfter the Second World War, Trout Lake continued its evolution as East Vancouver’s only beach. His most influential endeavours included the Royal City Planing Mill in New Westminster and the Hastings Saw Mill.John Hendry died in 1916 at the age of 72 having earned many titles in his lifetime some of which included: President Vancouver Board of Trade President Canadian Forestry Association and Mayor of New Westminster. After a brief stint in the state of Washington, Hendry was commissioned to rebuild the Moodyville Mill which had been recently destroyed by fire. But the improvement of the park was slow: in 1932, a peat-mining operation was underway to provide the Park Board with revenue.īorn in New Brunswick, John Hendry came to Vancouver in 1872 when the lumbering industry was just getting started. Following a donation by Aldyen Hendry Hamber, the board gave the lake an official name, John Hendry Park, in honour of the industrialist who had owned the Hastings Mill company and consolidated the province’s largest lumber company of the day, the B.C. In 1917, the Park Board expressed its first interest in Trout Lake, and three years later began to assemble land nearby. In cold Vancouver winters, Trout Lake was a popular skating spot, easily reached from the Cedar Cottage interurban stop nearby. As its water was slightly acidic, the boilers didn’t have to be cleaned as often, but beaver in the lake kept damming the flume’s entrance. A flume on a trestle connected the lake by an easy grade to the mill at the foot of Dunlevy Street on the waterfront. The lake is also a great place to teach kids or beginners the basics of casting.Trout Lake served as the water supply for the boilers at the Hastings Mill from the 1860s until the city built its Capilano water system in the 1880s. It’s possible to fish from shore, from a boat or with waders. There are private residences scattered around the lake, so make sure to avoid private property. Then go south on CO-145 at the gas station. To reach Trout Lake CO, head west from Telluride. Like its name implies, the lake holds plenty fish, and who could ask for a more scenic lake to drop a canoe into? The lack of traffic hasn’t made the tranquil lake useless, however. The 50,000 gallon tank and railroad bridge still stand, but the days of Rio Grande have long passed. Trout Lake was once an integral part of the Rio Grande Southern Railroad, filling steam engines with water as they rested under the shadows of skyscraper peaks. ![]()
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