Vanier Park (place)

• attend Bard on the Beach,
• the Vancouver Children's Festival,
• fly (Super Grover from) kites,
• go to the H.R. MacMillan Planetarium (to see
  • laser shows,
  • Seeing Stone Soup,
  • and the Vancouver Museum in the lower levels),
• go to Vancouver's Maritime Museum (to see the HMS St. Roch),
• proceed along south False Creek to Granville Island,
• go along Cornwall Avenue to Frogurt's or Expressohead
• or to be assaulted by chatboarders and/or members of PsychoNet during fireworks sponsored by evil cigarette companies.

The most noteworthy feature of the /park/, once you get past the Haida-hat-shaped Planetarium, is a giant metal sculpture ostensibly called Gateway to the Northwest but known near and far as the giant paperclip.