Stanley Park (municipal park) adopted 7 December 1937 on 92G/6, as originally designated 27 September 1888 by City of Vancouver's Parks Board.

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

Approximately 1000 acres (405 hectares). Previously known as Coal Peninsula because of the coal deposits. Designated by the Royal Engineers as a military reserve in 1860, because of its' strategic location protecting the colonial capital of New Westminster. Logged by various companies between the 1860s and mid-1880s, until the fledgling Vancouver City Council successfully petitioned the Dominion government to lease the reserve to the City for use as a park. Designated as a National Historic Site by Parks Canada in 1988. Lease most recently renewed in 2007.

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

"QoiQoi (meaning "masks") was a Squawmish [sic] village in Stanley Park, formerly with a population of 700, but now abandoned." (Charles Hill-Tout, Ethnological Survey of Canada, 1900). [in later publications and histories, the name is spelled variously Qwhy-qwhy, Khway'khway, Xwáy' xwey, Xwayxway, etc.]

Source: Nelson, Denys; Place Names of the Delta of the Fraser River; 1927, unpublished manuscript held in the Provincial Archives

Named by Sir Donald A. Smith, afterwards Lord Strathcona, after Lord Stanley of Preston, Governor-General of Canada when the park was opened in 1888. (September 1948 article "The Naming and Opening of Stanley Park, 27 September 1888" by J.P. Mathews, Vancouver City Archivist, file N.1.31)

Source: included with note