Cleveland Dam

The Cleveland Dam is a ninety-one-meter-high concrete gravity dam that blocks the Capilano River to create the Capilano Reservoir. You can identify this massive structure by its imposing spillway, which towers nearly three hundred feet above the riverbed. Completed in nineteen fifty-four, the dam serves as a primary source of fresh drinking water for the Greater Vancouver region, holding back over six hundred acres of water behind its wall. It is named for Ernest Albert Cleveland, who served as the first chief commissioner of the Greater Vancouver Water District from nineteen twenty-six until his death in nineteen fifty-two.