40 - Sunday, April 29, 1990 - North Shore News

North Shore neighborhood is
slowly a victim of urbanization

FORTY-TWO years

schools were built.

We watched the bush yield to
pleasant small homes, we saw the
beginnings of the gardens that now
grace the whole hillside, and we
mourned the little creek that went
haywire one night and had to be
corralled in concrete.

All the time the bush was
tetreating, the homeowners group
was trudging sturdily in its wake
with ornamental trees for boule-
vards and yards. Roads got paved
and buses ran more often than
twice a day. A bank moved in,
congregations coalesced into a
church or two. The general store
gradually gave way to shops for
bread, and knitting wool, gasoline
and flowers, hardware for handy
and other men, a library had a dif-
ficult birth.

And inside of two or three years,
there were strangers — one no
longer knew every face in the
Hightands. ‘‘Look out,’’ we said,
“the city is coming.”

We left the Highlands 30 years
ago, and now we have come back.
The pretty gardens are evidence of
stable home ownership, the houses
are all well tended. The area of the
shops has had some cosmetic at-
tention, and has spawned another
hairdresser, another cafe, another
bank. Mutations are evident.

But of all the constants, the
most striking has proved to be the
greenery!

What a treat for the eye, and the
heart’s memory; all the trees, ev-
erywhere, both natural growth and
jovely contributed trees, shrubs,
vines — everywhere is woodsy
freshness.

To be able to look out one’s
back door into the heart of the
primordial forest is like a dream of
paradise in these days of the ubi-
quitous developer.

Street after street is graced with
deliberate plantings, but yard after
yard still shelters the tall conifers
and gorgeous vine-maples and
workaday alders that have shared
the birds and squirrels through the
years.

ago we moved
Highlands, before the churches were built, before the

The worm has weaseled in,
though, to coin a phrase.
Assiduous real-estate sleuths have
collected corners here and there,

Eleanor Godley

and great lot-swallowers have
mushroomed, shoving aside both
trees and others’ privacy.

There’s a clutch of them at the
east end of Crescentview, jostling
for space, with no room left for
softening trees. And another is just
rising in a small peninsula at the
confluence of Queens Road and
Thorncliffe, thrust onto and into a
once-woodsy corner that rose
above the little pale creek.

Where it was the norm that each
house snuggled into the leafy sur-
round, these places stand boldly,
hip to hip, making no relationship
with the background. Indeed, the
background has been wiped out.

Two who refused to compromise
their cherished lifestyle have seen
the trees between and behind them
yanked up and spit out. They are
now in the role of the specimen on
the blotter, great rearing windowed
viewpoints on three sides. Naked
as worms, they cling still to famil-
iar ambience and plant a few more
vines.

WHAT’S IN YOUR NAME?
THE QUALITY OF YOUR LIFE!

The latest B.C. statistics reveal
the name MICHAEL was one of
the most popular choices of boys'
names. This is an excellent choice
as the name MICHAEL will create
very harmonious conditions in the
life of one so named.

It incorporates a stable and in-
telfigent nature, one who can han-
dle responsibility, has business
and organizational ability, and one
who has a logical mind. Because
this name is balanced, it produces
a stable and trustworthy person,
versatile, and capable. You find
him in positions of authority, and
he can remain cool-headed in the
face of calamity. He has a very
keen memory, is conservative and
self-confident as he learns easily
and quickly. His sense of obliga-
tion to help others is sometimes
interpreted as being interfering,
but that is not his intent. He must
guard against being too know-it-all
and looking down on others as not
capable.

When MICHAEL is called
MIKE he destroys so much that is
fine in the name of MICHAEL —
MIKE does have a quick mind —
too quick, because he »ecomes
restless, never knowing just what
he wants, never content and
satisfied, very tense and seidom
finishing what he starts. He is full
of desire and ambition but he
wants things the easy way. MIKE
loves to work with the public, but

usually talks too much and, in
business, is inclined to talk himself
into and out of a good position. He
usually suffers with a sensitive
stomach and a weakness in the
fluid functions of the body. MIKE
can be candid in speech, sar-
castic, and very depressed at
times. He has big ideas thai he
talks about but which seldom
materialize.

The foregoing shows what a
destructive effect a nickname can
have on the well-balanced
qualities of the name MICHAEL.
it depends on which name is most
used which qualities will
predominate. To give a complete
analysis the surname would have
to be analyzed as well, as it too
can intensify or modify the
qualities of the given name.

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into Capilano

40 years.

As these observations are being
made, a corner in the small village
area has been razed and is being
excavated to support the first
Highlands highrise, three shocking
storeys that will tower over
everything around, and ~— the real
root of local disaffection — will
begin the metro-townification of
the entire area. It is gloomily
asserted that this is but the well-
known thin edge. They are sure the
wedge will swell and bring down
other small shops.

That will be the knell that tolls
the end of the Highlands’ graceful
There will be con-
dominiums built, and apartment
blocks, and traffic problems will

confuse the days, and nobody wilt

know anybody any more.

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