Stanley Park's Secret

Stanley Park - the "pristine" jewel in the crown of the city of Vancouver is exposed for what is - a colonial machination! Barman at her best deconstructs the creation of the Park even as she illuminates the erasures of the local Indigenous population that had inhabited the land and waterfront for millennia. She traces the stories of the families that were dispossessed through the colonization of places of special meaning in the evolving province to the present. There is nothing pristine about the "park". Jean always provides us with a new way of seeing familiar places and spaces, helping us to take the blinders off and "awake" to the realities which are our historical legacy.