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artists’ stories and posted
them on the museum's wall.
In one excerpt, Ruth
Massey recalls: “Before the
house was finished, Bill Reid
brought salmon and friends,
_and splayed the salmon on
Sticks in the Indian manner ...
built a lovely bonfire on a low
part of the rock near the
north end. When the fish was
nearly cooked the Black Ball
Ferry went by (not-many feet
away) and sent up such a wash
. thar the fire was doused. But
due to Bill’s quick action the
salmon was saved.”
Even before the Smiths,
Binnings and Masscys, there

were artists who came to West:

: Vancouver when it was litde-
more than'a cottage commu-
nity. ;

‘Asa youngster in the .

1930s, artist Unity Bainbridge

“and her family would take the ©

“ferry to|North Van then the

. train along to-Kew Beach;
where they would scttle for
the summer.

« Recalls Bainbridge: “There ;

were two beaches and litle
-. cabins to stay in, and one lite
7: col grec the kids
id d get their candies. It.was

saree ‘of tie finest psinings |
in the show belongs to Jane’.
: Billznx, who trained at the
‘ Royai‘Academy in London.
2 Wh ah her husband Hugh -
: Clifford and three small chil-
dren in tow, she came to .
Canada during the Depression,
years. Recounting,¢ their story,

. Parlour, hangs in

Kembie says, “they were
absolutely broke and had no
place to live.” Wallace Lefaux
offered them a canvas-roofed
shack in the berry patch at the
foot of 22nd Street. “He said

- they could stay there for the

summer and they stayed there
18 years.”

While her husband ran
Clifford’s Framing, an

" Ambleside framing, shop,

Billaux continued to perfect ”
her art, finding sitters for her
~ portraits among the commu-
nity’s colourful characters. A
1940s portrait of veteran
Harry Hutbert, a patron of
the Army and Navy Beer
i¢ show.
Also included in the show
is the work of visionarics who
helped shape West Van’s

" vibrant visual-arts community

— people like Norma:
Sorensen, a founding member
of the West Vancouver Sketch
Club and West Van’s
Community Arts Council.
Stroiling through the

exhibit earlier this week, artist

Gordon Smith reflected on
Sorensen’s contributions to
the arts.

In the *40s, Sorensen
engaged Smith, who was fresh

~ from studies at the Vancouver

School of Art, to instruct
members of the sketch club.
Smith recalls: “Norma

would drive me from our

home on Cambie. She would

come over every Wednesday
night. In those early years,

(the teacher’s fee) was enough

moncy to keep us going.”

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