Editor,
Next time you visit this park, remember that not too long ago water flowed through this park. This beautiful waterway was then filled in, but not with just any old fill. There was a little lake just North of the Stamish river, and west of the highway.
People probably visited this lake to cool down in the summer, and enjoy the spirit of this place. I listened to a friend of mine tell a story of how his grandfather talked of a lake he would visit as a young man, it was within walking distance from the Stamish river but could not find any signs of this place.
This lake was completely drained to make way for the railway. What remained of the lake bed was trucked downtown and used for top soil to finish filling in "Stan Clark Park".
This park should be renamed to reflect the spirit of both the Lake that was destroyed, and the waterway that once flowed through the area, not after Stan Clark.
John Buchanan
Squamish
