The great windstorm of 2006 was remembered Monday in Stanley Park.
The "Jewel of Vancouver" lost 10,000 trees in near-hurricane conditions.
A monument at Prospect Point was revealed which recognizes the many private donors who kick-started the restoration of the park, getting all levels of government involved.
"The media did a phenomenal job of covering this, making sure people understood the impact [of the storm] and it rallied an unprecedented amount of support for the park," said Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson.
Jim Lowden of the Stanley Park Restoration Committee said the basalt column memorial looks like broken trees.
"The choice of rock is to match the indigenous rock that underlies Prospect Point. It's a great outcropping that pushed up through the sandstone. It's represented here, at Simon Fraser and at Capitol Hill-- just three of these in the area."
The restoration project raised $10.8 million in total.
With a report from CTV British Columbia's Peter Grainger.
