{"id":10067,"date":"2012-06-04T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingvancouver.ca\/?p=10067"},"modified":"2013-01-21T07:20:34","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T15:20:34","slug":"barnes-on-barnes-parks-chair-constance-barnes-on-the-inauguration-of-emery-barnes-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/06\/04\/barnes-on-barnes-parks-chair-constance-barnes-on-the-inauguration-of-emery-barnes-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Barnes on Barnes: Parks Chair Constance Barnes on the Inauguration of Emery Barnes Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10185\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10185\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10185\" title=\"Emery Barnes Fountain DSCF7611small\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/Emery-Barnes-Fountain-DSCF7611small-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/Emery-Barnes-Fountain-DSCF7611small-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/Emery-Barnes-Fountain-DSCF7611small-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/Emery-Barnes-Fountain-DSCF7611small.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10185\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emery Barnes Park is flourishing with activity and users of all types, even on a weekday afternoon. (Image courtesy: Brendan Hurley)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/spacingvancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/features\/indepth_feature-VAN.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><strong>[Beginning\u00a0of a Multipart Interview of\u00a0Malcolm Bromley &amp; Constance Barnes]<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Parks are some of the most significant and meaningful public spaces in our cities. As traditional spaces of leisure, nature, and sport, parks have played an integral part of in the history of city life.\u00a0Recently, Spacing Vancouver editor Erick Villagomez and contributors Brendan Hurley and Yuri Artibise sat down with\u00a0Vancouver Park Board Commissioner Constance Barnes and Malcolm Bromley, the General Manager of Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation, to discuss the role of parks in the Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>Spacing Vancouver published the transcripts of the full interview in as a Four-Part Series over the Summer. \u2022 [<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/07\/16\/malcolm-bromley-constance-barnes-interview-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Part 1<\/a>] [<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/07\/23\/malcolm-bromley-constance-barnes-interview-part-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Part 2<\/a>] [<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/07\/30\/malcolm-bromley-constance-barnes-interview-part-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">Part 3<\/a>] [<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/08\/08\/malcolm-bromley-constance-barnes-interview-part-4\/\" target=\"_blank\">Part 4<\/a>] \u2022 We thought we&#8217;d give the readers a peak by posting this excerpt of the discussion on the recently\u00a0inaugurated\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cfapp.vancouver.ca\/parkfinder_wa\/index.cfm?fuseaction=FAC.ParkDetails&amp;park_id=20\">Emery Barnes Park<\/a>\u00a0in Yaletown.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/div>\n<p><strong>Spacing Vancouver: <\/strong>Constance, you recently inaugurated the completion of Emery Barnes Park; a park named after your father. The park has taken a decade to build from ground-breaking to final construction and I imagine it must have been quite emotional for you. Can you explain the importance of the event for you personally and what you think your father would have thought of the park named in his honour?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Constance Barnes:<\/strong> When I first found out that <a href=\"http:\/\/cfapp.vancouver.ca\/parkfinder_wa\/index.cfm?fuseaction=FAC.ParkDetails&amp;park_id=208\" target=\"_blank\">Rosemary Brown<\/a>\u2014another woman of colour\u2014had a park named after her (and it was named after her very quickly after she had passed), I went to my mom\u2019s house. I was hanging out with Laverne, my mother, and said, \u201cyou know, Rosemary has park named after her, why didn\u2019t dad get a park?\u201d because dad had been gone for some time already. She said, \u201cdon\u2019t sit here and whine about it, go out and bloody well do something about it.\u201d So I did.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I wasn\u2019t even considering at that point running for Parks Board or anything. It was about getting some of his old friends together\u2014Margaret Mitchell, some of the old school NDPers\u2014and saying \u201cPops did this, that and the other&#8230;let\u2019s go down to the Parks Board.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><!--more-->So it started out really coming down here [to the Parks Board], nervous, \u00a0sitting on the bench over there looking at all the elected Commissioners going &#8220;Ohh! what i am going to say\u201d and just speaking about what my father had done. It was three or four visits and finally they made a decision: yes, they would name a park after him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">They looked at a few locations, one of them being CRAB Park, wanting to rename it. I knew that dad had worked extensively in that area, with a lot of the First Nations\u2014Coast Salish\u2014and I thought, no, we really shouldn\u2019t rename it, because there is a lot of history there. So there was a piece of property coming up, and it was in his old riding, which at that time was called Vancouver Centre (it is now three different ridings). It was a great piece of property and all were in favour, so off they went, looking at what they were going to do, and doing it in different phases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It\u2019s been a long time coming. Little did I know that I\u2019d be sitting as the chair of the Vancouver Parks Board ten years later. This is one of those things that the universe out there says, \u201cO.K., we\u2019re going to give you this one!\u201d &lt;<em>laughter<\/em>&gt; \u201cYou\u2019ve been good, we\u2019re going to give you a little something.\u201d &lt;<em>laughter<\/em>&gt; With that being said, I think dad would be laughing because it is the most expensive property that he ever owned!\u201d &lt;<em>laughter<\/em>&gt; He had a little piece of property which he bought for $6,000 in Port Moody in the early 1950s, so he\u2019d be going \u201cDamn girl, you did good!\u201d &lt;<em>laughter<\/em>&gt;, \u201cwe\u2019re on moving up!\u201d &lt;<em>laughter<\/em>&gt;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10192\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10192\" style=\"width: 297px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/06\/04\/barnes-on-barnes-parks-chair-constance-barnes-on-the-inauguration-of-emery-barnes-park\/dscf7616small\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10192\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10192 \" title=\"Emery Barnes Dog Park DSCF7616small\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/DSCF7616small-e1337929154695-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/DSCF7616small-e1337929154695-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/DSCF7616small-e1337929154695-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/DSCF7616small-e1337929154695.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Off-Leash section of the park is contained, yet integrated into the rest of the spaces. (Image courtesy: Brendan Hurley)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I think he\u2019d be thrilled, and I think it is because there are so many different elements. There are times I bike by and you got somebody sleeping on the bench with a brown bag in his hand\u2014[dad] would have been cool with that. You\u2019ve got kids playing; its accessible, so you got kids with different abilities playing. You\u2019ve got an off-leash dog park\u2014we had a little dog named Fuzzer that he once in a while would pet; so you\u2019ve got that element. You\u2019ve got the chess or checker tables, which he and my brother, Craig used to play all the time. You\u2019ve got open space, green space. You\u2019ve got people throwing balls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It\u2019s a real mix of everything that he was, it\u2019s right in the core, it\u2019s urban, but you have a real mix of all the people in Vancouver in this green space in the downtown core. He\u2019d be thrilled, he\u2019d be absolutely thrilled. And to have my mom and my sisters and my brother and their kids\u2014so it was three generation of Barnes\u2019\u2014there to experience it, alive and well and healthy and seeing the unveiling and having people speak to the history and all that he did. It was humbling. It brought him back\u2014he was there. It was tremendous, it really was.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10197\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10197\" style=\"width: 324px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/06\/04\/barnes-on-barnes-parks-chair-constance-barnes-on-the-inauguration-of-emery-barnes-park\/dscf7591-emery-barnse-playground-small\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10197\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10197 \" title=\"DSCF7591 Emery Barnse Playground small\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/DSCF7591-Emery-Barnse-Playground-small-e1337929889300-600x585.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/DSCF7591-Emery-Barnse-Playground-small-e1337929889300-600x585.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/DSCF7591-Emery-Barnse-Playground-small-e1337929889300-1024x999.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/DSCF7591-Emery-Barnse-Playground-small-e1337929889300.jpg 1460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">To think, this thriving playground grew out of the alley behind DV8. (Image courtesy: Brendan Hurley)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Hearing the stories there with Shirley [Young], <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drpeter.org\/home\/inside-the-organization\/about-dr-peter\">Dr. Peter\u2019s<\/a> mom. Little did I know, but she used to live on that land, in the 1940s. She had a house there. Of course, dad, back in the day, when AIDS was just coming to the surface and people were afraid to hug or to touch, Pops was in there. He was not afraid of that type of thing. He chaired that (World AIDS Day) committee, looked for funding and worked with Dr. Peter. So to hear those stories&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">That B.C. Lion that was there (at the inauguration), I wanted to bring up the fact that I doubt he sits in the kitchen now when he eats, I bet he is now actually able to eat with the team, whereas my father wasn\u2019t, it was segregated. They could play as a team, but they couldn\u2019t eat as a team, or sleep as a team. So it gave me, at least, an opportunity to bring forward the history: how far we\u2019ve come, where we are now, and that we still have some work to do. But all those elements coming together was pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Malcolm Bromley:<\/strong> This touches on something important that just came to mind: that a lot of the park spaces we have, have strong emotional connections for people in Vancouver. We have to be very respectful and mindful of the emotional attachment and the emotional resonance of the [park] spaces we are responsible for. With the creation of Emery Barnes Park we, for the first time, included a plaque, which we wanted to prototype and see how it works. It\u2019s on a pillar and explains who Emery Barnes is.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">We\u2019ve got a lot of places in Vancouver that are named after people that others don\u2019t know. We thought that this was an interesting opportunity to try telling a story and getting a certain style of sign up that works&#8230;..that brings an emotional connection to that park. Emery Barnes Park now instantly has an emotional story attached to it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Constance Barnes:<\/strong> \u00a0And it educates people. With all the tourist coming to Vancouver, you&#8217;ve even got people that are traveling who have no idea who Emery Barnes, <a href=\"http:\/\/cfapp.vancouver.ca\/parkfinder_wa\/index.cfm?fuseaction=FAC.ParkDetails&amp;park_id=10\">Andy Livingston<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/cfapp.vancouver.ca\/parkfinder_wa\/index.cfm?fuseaction=FAC.ParkDetails&amp;park_id=113\">Margaret Pigott<\/a> are.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Malcolm Bromley:<\/strong> CRAB Park was named after my mom&#8230; &lt;laughter&gt;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Constance Barnes:<\/strong>\u00a0He has a good sense of humour; he has to! \u00a0We love him. &lt;laughter&gt;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">That&#8217;s a good point though, because the interpretive signs that we are doing are new. We\u2019ve always just put the park&#8217;s name up and everybody would say, &#8220;&#8230;so who is that?&#8221;\u00a0 That actually happened to me while sitting in my dad\u2019s park one afternoon picking up garbage and somebody was saying \u201cWell, who is Emery Barnes?&#8221; I was like \u201cExcuse me?!?\u201d &lt;laughter&gt; and thought we needed to do interpretative signage and educate people, so that there is some history.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10191\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10191\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/06\/04\/barnes-on-barnes-parks-chair-constance-barnes-on-the-inauguration-of-emery-barnes-park\/dscf7602\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10191\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10191\" title=\"DSCF7602\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/DSCF7602-600x418.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/DSCF7602-600x418.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/DSCF7602-1024x714.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/DSCF7602.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10191\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interpretive signage at the Davie corner entrance of the park \u00a0is improved for permanency and information above many other public places in the city. (Image courtesy: Brendan Hurley)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022\u2022\u2022 [<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/07\/16\/malcolm-bromley-constance-barnes-interview-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to start reading the rest of the multipart interview.<\/a>]\u00a0\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>[EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: On the afternoon of Sunday, June 3rd, Constance Barnes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straight.com\/article-700541\/vancouver\/constance-barnes-says-shes-seeking-ndp-nomination-vancouverfalse-creek\">officially announced<\/a> her candidacy in the race to be the NDP candidate for the riding of Vancouver False Creek in the next Provincial Election. Emery Barnes Park is located in Vancouver False Creek \u00a0and the riding is\u00a0encompassed\u00a0by the former Vancouver Burrard riding held by the senior Barnes from 1972 to 1996. Constance Barnes has also announced her intent to step down as Chair of the Vancouver Parks Board, yet stay on as a\u00a0Commissioner\u00a0because, as she says, &#8220;There is still a lot of work to do.&#8221;]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Yuri Artibise<\/strong> is a public policy analyst and social media specialist. Through his <a title=\"Yurbanism\" href=\"http:\/\/yuriartibise.com\">Yurbanism<\/a> brand, he explores the \u2018Y\u2019 of urbanism by sharing ways to make our cities more livable, community-oriented places one block at a time. He currently works with <a title=\"PlaceSpeak\" href=\"http:\/\/placespeak.com\">PlaceSpeak<\/a>, an online location-based community consultation platform.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Brendan Hurley<\/strong> is a local urban designer who focuses on planning for adaptive neighbourhood change. His recent work has been internationally focused, but is strongly rooted in his native Vancouver. Living and working out of the heart of downtown, he remains keenly focused on the region\u2019s development and history. Brendan is a regular contributor to Spacing Vancouver, but also consults as director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbancondition.ca\">UrbanCondition<\/a> design collective.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Erick Villagomez<\/strong> is the Editor-in-chief at Spacing Vancouver. He is also an educator, independent researcher and designer with personal and professional interests in the urban landscapes. His private practice &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/metisdb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Metis Design|Build<\/a> &#8211; is an innovative practice dedicated to a collaborative and ecologically responsible approach to the design and construction of places. You can also see some of his drawing and digital painting adventures at <a href=\"http:\/\/visualthoughts.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Visual Thoughts<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Beginning\u00a0of a Multipart Interview of\u00a0Malcolm Bromley &amp; Constance Barnes] Parks are some of the most significant and meaningful public spaces in our cities. 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