English Bay

English Bay is an area of water in an indentation of the shoreline of the Pacific Ocean, located South of Burrard Inlet and West of False Creek in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The Stanley Park Seawall runs from Stanley Park to False Creek along the shoreline of English bay.

English Bay and nearby Spanish Banks were named in 1859 by Captain Richards in commemoration of the meeting here in June 1792 between the English under Captain Vancouver and the Spanish under Captains Galiano and Valdes. 

English Bay Beach, also called First Beach, is an immensely popular sunbathing, swimming, and sunset-watching destination for tourists and local Vancouverites alike. Locarno Beach, Spanish Banks beaches, Jericho Beach, Kitsilano Beach, Sunset Beach, Second Beach, Third Beach and Ambleside Beach are other major oceanfront tourist destinations located along the shoreline of English Bay.