If you guessed "Brockton Point Lighthouse" in Stanley Park, you know "Where in Vancouver"!
Here are some interesting facts you might not know:
Brockton Point is located in Vancouver harbor at the east end of Stanley Park. It is named after Francis Brockton.
Francis Brockton was the ship's engineer on the HMS Plumper, a screw surveying ship in the Royal Navy. Commanded by Captain George Henry Richards between 1857 and 1859, HMS Plumper was used to survey the coast of British Columbia.
In 1859, Brockton found a vein of coal in the Vancouver area. After the discovery, which Richards reported to Governor James Douglas, Richards named the area of the find Coal Harbour and named Brockton Point, at the east end of what is now Stanley Park in Vancouver, after Francis Brockton.
The original tower was built in 1890 to help ships navigate Burrard Inlet. The current structure was built in 1915.
The Brockton Point Lighthouse can be reached by car along the Stanley Park drive, about two kilometers from the park entrance on the seawall.
