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Chinatown pilot project aims to balance parking prices with optimal visits to local businesses

Chinatown pilot project aims to balance parking prices with optimal visits to local businesses

Chinatown pilot project aims to balance parking prices with optimal visits to local businesses

Residents in and around the False Creek area are invited to share their thoughts on a new Olympic Village park project.

On Kwikwetlem territory, a new vision for Riverview The Riverview Lands, on the slope above the Coquitlam River, were known as a storied place. Settlers will remember the area most for its mental health facility, which the province began work on in 1904. It had an extensive garden and was near the Colony Farm, where patient labourers once produced up to 700 tonnes of crops and 20,000 gallons of milk per year. Chief Ed Hall of the Kwikwetlem First Nation says his mother, now 75, has a lot of me...

But for the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm people, their relationship with the site dwarfs colonization by about 9,000 years. Before the site became part of the City of Coquitlam, they knew it as a lush spot for food, medicine, ceremony and, due to its high elevation, a refuge during floods and raids by other communities, said Hall. After the Riverview Hospital officially closed in 2012, the province and Kwikwetlem First Nation, with help from the public, worked on envisioning the site’s future. Some major...