Meet the man who’s lived 30 years in Stanley Park

For 34 years, Chris Bailey has made his home and created art in the dense forest of Vancouver's Stanley Park . But as Alissa Thibault reports, it now looks like he's going to have to move.

Everything about Bailey’s campsite is simple yet functional. Most of it is constructed using old fishing nets and ropes discarded from nearby marinas. The layers of tarps keep it waterproof and there’s a small wooden box for essential supplies such as flashlights, loaves of bread, and a charging pack for his phone.

Park rangers and officers with the Vancouver Police Department’s Mounted Unit have known about his camp since the beginning. He worked at Stelco in Hamilton and then at the Bank of Montreal, where he analyzed operations in commercial banking.“People are successful in fields when, I feel, they have the best element — when what they’re about — their innate, intuitive intelligence — has found a way to study something refine it. And their natural vibe, their rhythm. Their life rhythm clicks.”“At the end of the ’70s, the tactical orientation that I had from high school and university, was basically set aside.

“It was relatively isolated attached to the metropolis. It was much less populated. It was much, much quieter. Everything was much more relaxed than it is now.”He didn’t know he would go on to live the next three decades in the forest. At the age of 40, his only intention was self-development.Living outside comes with its challenges. Bailey’s first major weather event was the 1996 “Storm of the Century,” when about 80 centimetres of snow hit Vancouver — half of which fell in a single day.

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