Gabriel Del Cid Castro used to attend Canada Games Pool as part of some swimming

and athletics courses he was taking at Douglas College.

“Especially as a new immigrant, it was a community place,” he recalled. “Everybody here was so friendly. It was great.”

Renee Chadwick, the city’s manager of special projects and community partnerships, said it was heartwarming to hear people’s memories about their time at the pool, such as the couple who met in the swimming pool 35 years ago (and later married). Two fellows reflected how they visited the pool every morning, sat in the shallow pool and contemplated how they would solve all the world’s problems.

“It’s been emotional, exciting,” said Dean Gibson, the city’s director of parks and recreation. “The thing that has been absent is there is not a sense of sadness. There’s just the emotional aspect of it is being reflected on. It’s impacted people in lots of different ways.”

It started with an idea

Among those invited for a VIP tour of Canada Games Pool before Saturday’s public event was the couple who first pitched the idea of building a facility and having New West team up with Burnaby to host the Canada Summer Games – Don and Evelyn Benson. The idea came to Don when he was appointed as a B.C. delegate to attend the first Canada Summer Games in Halifax and Dartmouth, Nova Scotia in the summer of ’69.

“Were it not for Don and Evelyn Benson, this facility probably never would have existed,” Gibson said. “They had four generations of the Benson family come with them. They had great grandchildren, grandchildren and his kids were all here. Of course it wasn’t the entire family but it was representative. I could see the sense of pride. And from their kids and grandkids – ‘oh, grandma and grandpa have done something special.’ It was nice to acknowledge them.”

Built in 1972 for the 1973 Canada Summer Games, the pool was, at that time, one of the largest in the country. More than 26 million people visited the pool during its 48-year history, with about 1,500 people visiting the facility daily and an average of 10,000 students attending swimming lessons each year.

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