Photographer: Vancouver Province Newspaper
This ditch from sometimes in the 1960s indicates the amount of water that was still flowing into False Creek Flats. We can assume that further east, the standing water was fresh and coming from the Trout Lake watershed that drains into Skwácháy̓s. But further west near the train station, there still some intrusion of salt water back on to the land — a process of marine reclamation now intensifying with sea level rise.