The Stanley Park Seawall has tombstones in it. James Cunningham, its master stonemason, persuaded Mountain View Cemetery to donate broken grave markers, so cyclists sometimes roll over the memorials of the dead.

Cunningham was single-minded. He was reportedly out there at all hours, sometimes in his pyjamas, building stretches of path alone. The wall took nearly 70 years to finish, and he died before it was done. His ashes were placed in a nook near Siwash Rock, so the builder stayed with his wall.

VoiceMap’s self-guided cycling tour rides the loop around the park with you. It tells Cunningham’s story at Siwash Rock, and explains how a 1970s feud between cyclists and pedestrians ended with the one-way rule of 1984.