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ing to an apartment development.
Located across the street from
the municipal hall, the house was
built by long-time West Van-
couver school teacher Gertrude
Lawson (the first woman in the
province to get a mortgage), who

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Community programs important to museum

ministrator Rupert Harrison.

Many of the museum objects
will come from the homes of peo-
ple who have been waiting for the
creation of a proper museum fa-
cility.

Although the Gertrude Lawson
building is owned and operated by

Kevin Pike looks at the museum
and historical society as ‘‘part-
ners, not tenants.”

The building will be fargely
staffed by volunteers, members of
the society, some of whom have
already donated hundreds of
hours to the development of the

died almost two years ago. the municipality, parks director museum.

The facarle is made of ballast
stones collected by her father,
John Lawson, who is known as
the ‘father of West Vancouver.”’

The museum’s large open rooms
were formerly divided into the
smaller rooms that she Iet to peo-
ple in need of respectable and
reasonably-priced lodgings.

Renovation project chairman
Jack Leyland said he was very
pleased with the job = architect
Mike Barnes has done to ac-
complish an ‘adaptive reuse of an
old building.’*

Although the original stone
fireplace with its fir mantlepiece
has been kept, a new heat pump
system has been installed that
keeps the building at the constant
temperatures required when put-
ting on exhibits.

A full-scale security system has
also been installed to protect ex-
hibits and the regular collection of
artifacts and archival material.

Most of that material will be
transferred from the current ar-
chives, which is housed in
cramped quarters at municipal
hall, under the care of part-time
archivist and former hall ad-

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