Winter Games

LOST LAGOON IN STANLEY PARK, VANCOUVER

The name for Lost Lagoon comes from a poem written by Pauline Johnson, a native poet from the late 19th. Johnson coined the name Lost Lagoon to describe one of her favourite areas in the park because it seemed to disappear when the water emptied at low tide. Although Lost Lagoon has since been transformed into a permanent lake, Johnson's name for it remains. She writes:

It is dark in the Lost Lagoon,
And gone are the depths of haunting blue,
The grouping gulls, and the old canoe,
The singing firs, and the dusk and-you,
And gone is the golden moon.