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Just read of a recently-published book about Stanley Park in Vancouver, BC, and the native and immigrant groups that once called space in the park "home." Among the past residents, according to promotion for the book:
The book is called "Stanley Park's Secret" by Jean Barman, and it recently won the 2006 City of Vancouver Book Award.
Some of the immigrant Hawaiians earlier employed in the fur trade took jobs at the lumber mills that dotted Burrard Inlet from the 1860s and settled at “Kanaka Ranch,” which was located just outside the park’s southeast boundary.