What a Difference a Tree Makes

*General Walk - No registration required OR *Small Group Walk - Registration required, limit of 10 participants

Description: Explore the history of the West End as told by its trees. Enjoy a walk along the neighbourhood's shady streets while learning about planting and management trends of the last 100+ years. From chestnuts to cherries, from lawns to rain gardens, what we plant in our boulevards says a lot about our values and our goals.

Walk Leader: Natalie is a West End resident and past board president of the Stanly Park Ecology Society that is passionate about trees, especially street trees. In addition to an educational background in environmental sciences, Natalie has spent a lot of time contemplating West End street trees while walking her senior rescue dog, Oliver.

Starting place: Barclay Heritage Square Park

How to recognize your walk leader(s): I will be standing by the sign on Barclay St

Accessibility Info: Breaks offered along the way, Family-friendly

Travel Tips: There is limited car and bike parking in the West End, but there is lots of transit and bike share.

Walk will end at Mole Hill

This event is taking place as part of the Jane’s Walk Vancouver Festival (May 2-5 2024). Jane’s Walk is an annual festival of free, citizen-led walking conversations inspired by Jane Jacobs. Check out other Jane’s Walks happening this year in Vancouver here.

We respectfully acknowledge that Jane's Walk takes place on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations

Host or Publisher Jane's Walk Vancouver (May 2-5, 2024)