Forty Years of the Deutscher Platz: The Story of the German Canadian Heritage Plaza

Deutscher Platz

In 1986, as Vancouver prepared to welcome the world for Expo ’86, the province was racing to finish something equally ambitious: SkyTrain, the region’s brand-new, fully automated rapid transit line. Alongside it ran the BC Parkway — a 26-kilometre walking and cycling path linking Vancouver, Burnaby, New Westminster and Surrey, built parallel to the new