Lost Lagoon

Lost Lagoon (49˚18'00" 123˚08'00" Just W of Coal Hbr, downtown Vancouver). This 17-ha feature was originally part of Coal Hbr but was turned into an artificial lake when the Stanley Park causeway was constructed in 1916. The name comes from a poem, “The Lost Lagoon,” by writer and performer Pauline Johnson (1861–1913), who left a fuller description of the naming in her 1911 book, Legends of Vancouver. She wrote that she had always resented the “jarring, unattractive” name of Coal...

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