City to commit $200,000 to Stanley Park’s 125th anniversary celebration

The Vancouver Park Board is planning a big party for the city’s biggest and most famous park.

Stanley Park turns 125 years old, and to mark the milestone, a two-day party is being planned for the 24th and 25th of August.

The celebration will include walking and cycling tours of the park, musical performances, and a beer garden.

The park board is planning to spend $50,000 on the party, and says it will be money well spent.

“The organizers of the event did ask for four beer gardens, which we approved and that really is in recognition that sponsorship dollars are tough to come by these days,” says Aaron Jasper with Vancouver Park Board. “Weather permitting the beer sales will help to offset some of the costs.”

Jasper says the city of Vancouver is committing $200,000 and a federal heritage fund is contributing $90,000. The rest of the money will come from private sponsorship.

The park board gas also approved several special occasion liquor licenses for some of this summer’s other most popular events.

Beer gardens have been approved for the Vancouver International Jazz Festival and Lululemon’s Sea Wheeze Sunset festival, which could see up to 3,000 people partying in Stanley Park’s Brockton Oval.