Navvy Jack Point Park (West Vancouver)
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Navvy Jack Thomas, a Welsh deserter from the Royal Navy, was the first Caucasian resident of West Vancouver. He offered the first ferry service to Vancouver in a rowboat. His house still stands today at Ambleside. Thomas' nickname "Navvy Jack" today remains in use in British Columbia English to mean washed pea gravel used in construction and landscaping trades, as he was the original supplier of the material to Vancouver and mined it from coves in West Vancouver.
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Coordinates: 49°19'39"N 123°10'5"W
- Stanley Park 1.6 km
- Pacific Spirit Regional Park 8.8 km
- Grouse Mountain Ski Area 9 km
- Bowen Island Ecological Reserve 16 km
- West Dyke Trail 17 km
- Deas Island 23 km
- Dionisio Point Provincial Park 46 km
- Wakes Cove Provincial Park 46 km
- Bodega Ridge Provincial Park 49 km
- Wallace Island Marine Provincial Park 51 km
- Ambleside Shopping District 0.7 km
- Park Royal 2 km
- Hollyburn Country Club 2.5 km
- Capilano 5 Reserve 2.6 km
- Altamont 2.7 km
- English Bay 3.5 km
- Cypress Bowl, Cross Country 5.9 km
- Capilano Reservoir 6.3 km
- Howe Sound 24 km
- Strait of Georgia 30 km