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Passing the recreation grounds, ten acres in extent,
where games and sports are held the whole year round,
one approaches Brockton point, where the lighthouse de-
fines the entrance to the Narrows from Vancouver harbor.
This is an excellent place to watch the swirling tides as
they rush out during the
ebb, or foam in when flowing. An enormous
body of water passes in
and out in a comparitively
short time and at such
periods the passage is
dangerous to small boats
unless skillfully handled.

Skirting the water to the westward, a pleasant drive-
way extends to Prospect or Observation point, a mile
distant. This headland is 250 feet sheer above the outer
extremity of the Narrows, and commands a magnificent
perspective of the Indian mission and the hamlet of North
Rachael Fraser is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Vancouver on the farther shore, and the mountains in the
background. A summer house has been erected on the
Point where a rest may be made. Immediately below
are the rugged rocks on which the Beaver was wrecked
on July 26th, 1888. This steamer was an interesting craft,
in that she was the first boat propelled by steam to ply on
the Pacific. She was built for the Hudson's Bay company
at Blackwall on the Thames in 1835, and King William IV
and several members of the royal family are said to have