Empire Stadium was originally built for the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. It was well known for track and field events, Canadian football as well the venue for both Elvis Presley and The Beatles in 1974. From 1954-1982 is was the home of the BC lions and it hosted the first Grey Cup in west of Ontario in 1955.
In 1983 the stadium no longer became the home of the Lions or Whitecaps when they moved to BC Place Stadium. The stadium was demolished in the early 1900s and it served as a parking lot of the Pacific National Exhibition as well as Playland for many years before it was transformed to a soccer field and track on the site of the old field.
During the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games the most famous event of the games was the One Mile Race in which John Landy and Roger Bannister ran the distance in under four minutes. A statue was created of the two men in memory of the event and currently stands at the entrance of the Pacific National Exhibition.
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