PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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Construction of the community recrea- 
tion building at Peninsula Park is now 
under way. The contract calls for the 
completion of this building early in the 
coming summer. With its completion there 
will be initiated in this city an all-the-year- 
’round playtime for the young folks. This 
structure is being erected at a cost of 
$30,000, which the Board believes to be 
money well spent. 
Difficulty was encountered in the early 
part of the year in acquiring the neces- 
sary property for rights of way for ex- 
tension of the Terwilliger Parkway. Work 
is, however, progressing rapidly in develop- 
ing what is destined to be one of the most 
beautiful scenic driveways in the country. 
A more detailed description of the work 
of constructing this boulevard and of the 
interesting types of public comfort stations 
built by the park board will be given in 
our next issue. 
With the growth of the system -the re- 
quirements in organization of forces pro- by modern organizers. The organization 
ceed. The general trend toward which of a modern park board is well represented 
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ADVANCING PARK SERVICE IN VANCOUVER 
The Park Board of Vancouver, British 
Columbia, has made substantial advance in 
playground and bathing beach construc- 
tion the past year, and the annual report 
recently issued tells of the addition of 35 
acres of land for park sites, embracing 
thirteen city blocks, at a cost of $343,529.16 
This sum ig far in excess of anything 
heretofore expended for a like purpose in 
any one year. For improvements and 
general maintenance the expenditure dur- 
ing 1912 aggregated $136,331.89, which also 
constitutes a record. 
The most extensive work was carried 
out in Stanley Park, involving an outlay 
of $66,137.90. Of this amount upwards of 
$32,000 was expended for widening and 
macadamizing the main driveway from 
Prospect Point to the seal pond. Except 
for that portion from the seal pond to the 
entrance, which it was deemed wise not 
to improve in view of the building of 
the new causeway, the whole of the en- 
circling seven-mile driveway is macadam- 
ized and is in good shape to stand every 
class of traffic to which it will be sub- 
jected. 
In the matter of free bathing great 
strides were made during the year. The 
increasing crowds at Second Beach had 
become so large as to render utterly in- 
“T HE SEVEN SISTERS,” STANLEY PARK, VANCOUVER. 
