Head a block off of Hastings Street to discover Pandora Park. Bring a picnic and relax under a tree, visit the community garden, or cool off in the spray park in the summertime. Or, combine a visit to this cache with a visit to the Pandora Park Fall Fair, which usually takes place at the end of September.
According to the City of Vancouver website, the park was named on February 11, 1914, after the street on its north side. The street was named for the Royal Navy vessel HMS Pandora, which was wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia in 1791 while seeking the mutineers of the HMS Bounty.
The 1912 Goad's Fire Insurance Map shows a number of houses still in place where the park is now. Later, the park was home to two buildings; the Women’s Rescue House and the King’s Daughters’ Convalescent Home, which later was equipped and renovated by the Lions Club for the blind. The CNIB vacated the park in June 1950.
More recently, the Pandora Park Community Garden opened in 2009 and the new spray park opened in 2015.
Wander over to the south gate of the community garden and you'll be pretty close to this cache.