Vancouver, North Shore and Richmond
Lost a wedding ring on a Vancouver beach?
Spanish Banks East and West both have permanent sand courts, and your court is where a search begins.
Yes, a wedding band lost on the courts at Spanish Banks can be searched for, as can one dropped at Kits, on a Burnaby lawn or at a Steveston dock. The pin you can give us for the moment it came off matters most, and after that whether the spot was dry sand or ground the sea covers at high tide.
Ring Seekers is a lost ring and jewellery recovery service that works with experienced local metal detectorists across Canada to search for a ring, wedding band, watch, keys or phone lost in Vancouver, on the North Shore or in Richmond.
Tell us what happened and where. We choose an experienced detectorist who knows the beach, park or garden, brief them with your map and photos, and tell you honestly if the odds are poor.
Metal detector hire is worth a thought if the band went on dry sand or your own lawn today and you can stand on the spot within a step or two. For wet sand, the water off Kits, a big park or something as small as an earring, a detectorist who does this often is the better choice.
Before the net comes down
Ask the people on your court to keep their feet still for a minute, and go through the bags, towels and shoes by the court. Put a pin on your phone map from where you were standing when it came off, note which court it was, counting from the concession, and write down the time: at low tide the water at Spanish Banks is one kilometre off shore, and it helps to know where the sea was when you noticed.
For keys or a phone, ask at the lost and found too. The Vancouver Park Board runs one for its beaches, and at Ambleside things are often handed in at the concession.
Places we cover in Vancouver, the North Shore and Richmond
- English Bay Beach and Sunset Beach
- Second Beach and Third Beach, Stanley Park
- The Stanley Park seawall
- Kitsilano Beach
- Jericho Beach
- Locarno Beach
- Spanish Banks East, West and Extension
- Acadia Beach and Pacific Spirit Regional Park
- Granville Island and False Creek
- Trout Lake
- West Vancouver: Ambleside and Dundarave
- The Centennial Seawalk and John Lawson Park
- Horseshoe Bay, Whytecliff Park and Lighthouse Park
- North Vancouver: Deep Cove and Cates Park (Whey-ah-Wichen)
- Waterfront Park and the Shipyards
- Lynn Canyon Park
- Richmond: Steveston and Garry Point Park
- The West Dyke Trail and Terra Nova Rural Park
- Minoru Park
- Burnaby: Deer Lake Park, Central Park and Barnet Marine Park
- New Westminster: Westminster Pier Park and the Waterfront Esplanade
- Moody Park and Queen's Park
- Squamish and Alice Lake
- Pemberton, One Mile Lake, Nairn Falls and Joffre Lakes
- Back gardens and sports fields
From the Kits sand to the Pemberton lakeshore
City beaches, the North Shore, the Fraser River towns and two places on the Sea to Sky.
Spanish Banks, Locarno, Jericho and Acadia Beach
Spanish Banks runs along Northwest Marine Drive west of Tolmie Street in three sections: east, west and the extension. East and west each have volleyball courts and a concession, and the extension has a kiteboarding launch zone. Locarno, between Discovery Street and Tolmie Street, is a sandy beach with tall evergreens nearby, volleyball courts and a swimming raft. At Jericho, the east side is for swimmers and the west side for sailboats and windsurfers. West of the extension, Acadia Beach has a picnic area, and the forest trails of Pacific Spirit Regional Park climb from the shore across Point Grey.
Kits, English Bay, Sunset Beach and Stanley Park
Kits Beach, at the north end of Yew Street, has the seawall beside it, a swimming raft and volleyball courts. English Bay Beach, also called First Beach, has a swimming raft with a large slide. Sunset Beach, at the mouth of False Creek, has access to the ferry pier. In Stanley Park, Third Beach at Ferguson Point is a natural sandy beach surrounded by trees.
Ambleside, Dundarave, Horseshoe Bay and Whytecliff
Ambleside Park has sandy beaches and a designated swimming area. Dundarave has a sandy beach and a pier, and the Centennial Seawalk runs from there to the bottom of 18th Street, with John Lawson Park and its pier at the midpoint. Horseshoe Bay Park sits next to the ferry terminal. Just west, Whytecliff Park has a small pebble and sand beach in a sheltered cove where divers enter the water, and Whyte Islet can be reached across a ridge of rocks at low tide. Lighthouse Park is old coastal forest with trails down to rocky shorelines and a lighthouse viewpoint.
Deep Cove, Cates Park and the North Vancouver waterfront
Deep Cove is a sheltered, calm harbour where people sit on the beach, which is not a sandy one, or paddle out of the cove into Indian Arm. Cates Park, or Whey-ah-Wichen, has waterfront trails, beaches and a boat launch. Waterfront Park near the SeaBus terminal has open grass and paved paths, and the Shipyards in Lower Lonsdale has a summer splash park. Lynn Canyon Park is rainforest, with canyons and creeks.
Steveston and Garry Point in Richmond
Steveston is a fishing village at the mouth of the Fraser River. Fisherman's Wharf is along the pier next to Steveston Landing, where the fishing boats unload. Garry Point Park is gently rolling grass fringed by a sandy, log-strewn shoreline on the South Arm of the river. The West Dyke Trail runs north from Garry Point to Terra Nova Rural Park.
Burnaby and New Westminster
Deer Lake Park in Burnaby has walking trails round the lake and open lawns. Central Park, on the border with Vancouver, has forest trails, ponds and tennis courts, and Barnet Marine Park on Burrard Inlet has sandy beaches. In New Westminster, Westminster Pier Park is built half on land and half over the Fraser, and with the Waterfront Esplanade boardwalk it forms one linear park along the river.
Squamish and Pemberton
Squamish sits at the tip of Howe Sound, where steady summer winds bring out kiteboarders and sailors. North of town, Alice Lake has two sandy beaches, and a floating dock at South Beach. In Pemberton, One Mile Lake Park has a boardwalk, a dog beach and lake access for swimming, canoeing and paddleboarding, and Den Duyf Park has sports fields. Nairn Falls is a short walk from its parking lot along the Green River, and east of town on the Duffey Lake Road one trail from the parking lot passes Lower, Middle and Upper Joffre Lake.
How we handle your message
Your file, start to finish
Your pins, photos and questions sit in one WhatsApp conversation, so nothing from the first evening gets lost.
Close to home counts
A back lawn, a soccer field or the park where the dog runs is as worth a message as a beach.
If it looks unlikely
If what you describe makes a search a long shot, you would hear that from us first.
Costs on the table
We explain the costs before any search is booked, in the same WhatsApp conversation as everything else.
Sea, river or lake decides what we ask
The questions change between the river, the lakes and your own lawn.
On the Fraser
At Steveston, Garry Point and Westminster Pier Park the water is the Fraser River. On a wharf or boardwalk, say which side you were on. On the Garry Point shore, say whether you were up on the grass or down on the sand.
Lakes, fields and gardens
Deer Lake, Trout Lake, Alice Lake and One Mile Lake are fresh water, and Ambleside and Den Duyf Park have sports fields. There is no tide. What counts is where on the field or lawn you were and whether the grass has been cut since.
Want a first idea of your chances? Try the lost ring recovery calculator.
Questions about Vancouver, the North Shore and Richmond
Our Spanish Banks game ended and my wedding band was missing from my hand.
Spanish Banks East and West both have a row of permanent courts beside a concession, so start by saying which beach you played on and how many courts along from the concession yours was. Then think back through the game: a dive for the ball, a change of ends, or a break for a drink.
My Oura ring was gone after I swam out to the raft at Kits Beach and back.
Kits Beach has a swimming raft, and the seawall runs alongside the beach. Look back at the seawall from where you entered the sea and note what stood directly behind you, a bench, a lamp post or a concession window. Then say whether you hauled yourself up onto the raft or only held its edge, and whether the ring felt loose that morning.
Our car keys dropped off the pier at Dundarave. What should we note down?
Stand where you were on the pier and drop a pin, then tell us whether the keys fell into water or onto sand. Dundarave has a sandy beach beside its pier. Ask the West Vancouver parks lost and found too, in case the keys were handed in.
A watch slipped off my wrist as we pushed the kayaks off in Deep Cove.
Deep Cove is a sheltered, calm harbour, and paddlers set off from there into Indian Arm. Pin the launch point. Tell us whether the watch went while you were standing in the shallows or once you sat in the boat, and whether it has a clasp or a strap that may have come undone.
An earring went missing during a picnic on the grass at Garry Point.
Start with where your blanket was. Garry Point Park is rolling grass edged by a sandy shore strewn with logs. Say whether you sat on the grass or down among the logs, and what was nearest you, such as the Fishermen's Memorial on the shoreline. If the back of the earring turned up without the front, keep it and tell us where you found it.
My wedding band came off during an afternoon of yard work at home in Burnaby.
A home yard is a small patch you know well, which helps. Sketch it roughly and mark the beds, the stretch of lawn and wherever you knelt or piled leaves. Say whether the lawn has been mown since, and where you stood when you pulled your gloves off.
A chain came off while swimming at One Mile Lake in Pemberton.
One Mile Lake Park has a boardwalk and lake access for swimming, canoeing and paddleboarding. Tell us where you got in, from the boardwalk or the shore, and whether your feet were still on the lake bed when you noticed. Mention any time on a paddleboard or in a canoe that day.
Vancouver, North Shore and Richmond
Courtside, lakeside or on your own lawn
Vancouver, the North Shore, Richmond and up the Sea to Sky.
Send us a WhatsApp message naming the court, beach, park or street, and what went missing. Our reply asks only what a detectorist would need to know about that place.