The Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG) is the fifth-largest art gallery in Canada and the largest in Western Canada. It is located at 750 Hornby Street in Vancouver, British Columbia. Its permanent collection of about 10,000 artworks includes more than 200 major works by Emily Carr, the Group of
Seven, and illustrations by Marc Chagall. The Vancouver Art Gallery's collection of about 10,000 works of art represents the most comprehensive resource for visual culture in British Columbia. Established in 1931 with the founding of the Gallery, the collection grows by several hundred works every year. It is a principal repository of works produced in this region, as well as related works by other Canadian and international artists.

St. Andrew's Wesley United Church was opened in 1933 and is located on the corner of Burrard and Nelson Streets. The church's structural design features a mock 14th-century Gothic tower. St. Andrew's is a congregation of the United Church of Canada and is the combined product of the Saint Andrew’s Presbyterian and Wesley Methodist Churches.

English Bay is located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, west of the downtown peninsula, which separates the bay from Burrard Inlet connecting to the northwest, and False Creek to the southeast. English Bay Beach, near the city's West End residential neighbourhood, is the most popular sunbathing, swimming, and sunset-watching beach in the downtown Vancouver area. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, English Bay Beach was home to Vancouver's first official lifeguard, the legendary Joe Fortes, who taught hundreds of the city's early residents how to swim, and patrolled the beach from his cabin on its shore.

George Wainborn Park is a 2.5 hectare waterfront park located in downtown Vancouver. It is complimented by a circular water feature designed to mimic the Vancouver area's many natural water features, and a combination of formal and informal plantings. Though the area has a very definite “urban park” feel, fans of natural settings will enjoy the informal tree plantings and bosque of birch trees.

The upper area of George Wainborn Park looks out over False Creek, with yellow steel Adirondack chairs that provide ample seating. The lower area of the park is where the lawns, children's playground, walkway leading to the seawall, and promontory are located. 2006 saw the installation of a forty foot tall wind sculpture by artist Doug Taylor. Called “Khenko,” the Coast Salish work for heron, this sculpture is designed to honor the return of Vancouver's native herons to the area.

George Wainborn Park is named for George Wainborn, Vancouver's longest serving Park Board Commissioner. Wainborn contributed to Vancouver's parks for thirty three years, and lead the creation of Stanley Park's miniature railway, played a pivotal role in starting the Carol Ships program, and helped begin the tradition of lighting the Beach Avenue elm trees each Christmas season.

Buschlen Mowatt Gallery displays works created by the most talented local and international artists. The interior of the gallery is spacious and welcoming. Buschlen Mowatt earned the "Gallery of the Year" award, which has increasingly improved its reputation among locals and visitors.

Stanley Park is a 404.9 hectares (1,001 acres) urban park bordering downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was opened in 1888 by Lord Stanley of Preston, the Governor-General of Canada. Stanley Park contains numerous natural and man-made attractions that lure visitors to the park. Unlike other large urban parks, Stanley Park is not the product of a landscape architect, but has evolved into its present, mixed-use configuration. The Project for Public Spaces has ranked Stanley Park as the sixteenth best park in the world and sixth best in North America.

The Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre is a public aquarium located in Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In addition to being a major tourist attraction for Vancouver, the aquarium is a centre for marine research, conservation and marine animal rehabilitation. The Vancouver Aquarium is currently home to around 300 species of fish, almost 30,000 invertebrates, and 56 species of amphibians and reptiles. They also have around 60 mammals and birds. Officially Canada's first public aquarium, the Vancouver Aquarium has become the largest in Canada and one of the five largest in North America. The Vancouver Aquarium was the first aquarium in the world to capture and display an orca.

Girl in a Wetsuit is one of the attractions in Stanley Park. This bronze statue was intended to mimic Copenhagen's famous statue of Hans Christian Andersen's Little Mermaid. When the Park was unable to secure the rights to replicate the Copenhagen statue, Hungarian sculptor and painter Elek Imredy was commissioned to make a modern variation of it for Stanley Park, instead.

Girl in a Wetsuit is a life-sized bronze statue of a girl seated on a boulder, located just before Lumberman's Arch and the waterfront park. Instead of resembling Copenhagen's Little Mermaid, the Girl in a Wetsuit is a modern variation wearing swim fins, a wetsuit, and a diving mask. The statue was placed on June 9th of 1972, and has remained in place ever since.

At first blush, it's easy to mistake the Girl for a harbour seal. When the water level is high, she appears to be hovering on the surface of the water. Canada geese swim nearby, and seagulls perch on the Girl's head and knees. Over the years, the bronze statue has weathered to a subtle verdigris patina, that matches the blue-green of the water and the moss clinging to the boulder.

The 9 O'Clock Gun is a twelve pound, muzzle loaded naval cannon that was originally cast in 1816. After its use as a naval cannon, it was brought to Stanley Park in 1894 to serve as an alarm to warn fishermen of the close of fishing at 6 PM every Sunday.

Later on, after warning fishermen was no longer a necessity, firing the gun was used as a time signal for the general population, and as a means of allowing ship's clocks to be accurately calibrated to Vancouver time while in port. Before the use of the 9 O'Clock Gun, lighthouse keeper William Jones used to detonate a stick of dynamite, instead.

Today, the 9 O'Clock Gun is fired every day at 9 PM PST. It is still loaded with black powder each day, and an electric trigger sets the charge off each night. It has functioned continually since its installation with the exception of five separate occasions- once in WWII when the gun was captured and “ransomed” for a donation to the BC Children's Hospital, once in 2007 during a strike, once when it was inexplicably painted red by UBC engineering students, and once on May 20th 2011 for no apparent reason. Now, the gun sits in a stone and metal enclosure to prevent theft or tampering, with signs warning pedestrians of its loud report.