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Filipino Plaza is a landscaped park located on Vanness Avenue, west of SkyTrain's Nanaimo Station in the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The open park, sometimes referred to as a linear park, is located underneath the SkyTrain Expo Line, and was one of the dozens of open parks built in 1986 as part of BC Transit's Parkway Program showcasing different cultural parks on the 26-kilometre path that parallels the SkyTrain.[1][2][3] Many ethnic communities created legacies on the linear park under the Skytrain in 1986.[3]
Designed by architect Bert Morelos,[4] the park consists of a wooden arch, a very distinctive and colourful Sarimanok logo, and two walls made up of 2,000 red bricks donated by Filipino-Canadians representing the pioneers of the plaza.[5]
Construction of the park was made possible with the bayanihan spirit of Filipino-Canadian members of the "Filipino Plaza Committee of 1985." The designer of the Sarimanok logo and the park itself was Filipino.[5][6] The committee led the effort of the many Filipino in raising enough money for the plaza.[7][8]
In 2010, a Filipino Plaza Committee was formed to handle proposed improvements.[9][8]
^"Metro Vancouver TransLink BC Parkway Upgrade". Translink.ca. Retrieved September 29, 2010.
^"Translink Park Blueprint". Translink. Retrieved October 3, 2010.
^ abTranslink BC Parkway stakeholder meeting notes, Translink, November 12, 2008, retrieved October 3, 2010
^Fung, Kaitlyn (June 2, 2021). "Vancouver's Cultural Parks Are Almost Gone, but Some Caretakers Haven't Given Up". The Tyee. Retrieved June 30, 2021.
^ abPhilippine Asian Chronicle Publishing, "Philippine Asian Chronicle," Sept. 1-15, 2010 Issues, page a7
^AtinIto Publishing, Inc."Atin Ito Newspaper," March 1986, Page 22
^"'Filipino Plaza' in Vancouver to get a makeover". September 8, 2010.
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