Equestrian statue: horse-drawn supplies, brought up Lonsdale Avenue
North Vancouver Public Art reflects North Vancouver’s spirit and identity
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with over 150 pieces in 12 neighbourhoods, North Vancouver Public Art is
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integrated in parks and plazas, municipal buildings and commercial developments
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along walkways, greenways, roadways, rockways, laneways
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in wordplays, sculptures, mosaics, murals and digital art.
Discover and delight in North Vancouver Public Art
- Get the map: www.nvrc.ca/publicart available at most North Van rec centres and at North Vancouver City Hall
- Get the App: gisapp.cnv.org/publicart
We start at Central Lonsdale’s Victoria Park (#102 on your map)
The Long Ascent by V. & E. Dam de Nogales
The Long Ascent, a turn-of-the-19th-century tough haul,
as we wind our way along the Green Necklace
Clematis colonnades with a message on top
via clematis-collonades, in quartet,
crowned in stories, illuminated, linking and weaving us west
Enduring Love
Some of 200 stencils along 3km of the Green Necklace
to Coho Creek mosaic–
salmon,
spawning
Local youth tie in our industrial history
Centennial Mural and its garden, circling back
The Chief by Natraoro and Harry
via View,
its glass-gated town homes
to The Chief
a Squamish-Nation legend
of a two-headed serpent and its slayer…
Ancient Sun by Wade Baker
up the lane to view Ancient Sun, rising in the east, lighting our way
Coho Creek by Bruce Walther
into City Hall where Integrated Plane reminds us of our topography.
Fallen Tree and 35 Rings root us in our past 
Wilbur’s Web by Alan Storey “No, my webs were no miracle, Wilbur. I was only describing what I saw.” Charlotte to Wilbur, Charlotte’s Web, E.B.White
to Tree Fragments, stone insets…
Wilbur’s Web,
light-wells,
we drink in.
Keri, our cultural guide, keeps us on a Continuum-North Vancouver Public Art
Inspired by Chief Dan George with West Coast petroglyphic imagery by Marianne Nicolson, My People Will Rise Up Like a Thunderbird from the Sea,
Looping back to Continuum, we encircle it, and head south
on Lonsdale’s east side past The Lady (camel) and Grizzly,
Grizzly by Ken Clark
full of art,
full of community spirit.