Following the Great Vancouver Fire in June 1886, MacLean and his council members successfully convinced Governor General Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne to give the military reserve in Burrard Inlet to the city, which became Stanley Park [REF].
In December 1886, MacLean faced another election, launching a platform to extend the franchise in some ways, but to restrict the property rights of the city's ethnic Chinese residents [REF].