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Park Royal Exchange

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ28550660 ↗
Source-derived summary

Park Royal Exchange is an on-street transit exchange in West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Opened on October 16, 1959, it lies on Marine Drive at the Park Royal Shopping Centre and has connections to the Horseshoe Bay Ferry Terminal, the City and District of North Vancouver (including Capilano University), and Vancouver.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1959—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Park, Royal and Exchange.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28550660. Authority coordinates are 49.327, -123.140. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1959.

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This entry incorporates text from “Park Royal Exchange” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.