IN THIS second instalment
of the North Shore News’
two-part Year In Review
feature, the newspaper
presents a summary of the
major news events that oc-
curred on the North Shore
from July to December
1991.

JULY:
@ Ferry frustration grows:

Ferry travellers criticize the
decision by the B.C. Ferry Corp.
not to add additional summer sail-
ings from its Horseshoe Bay ter-
minal.

Exura sailings are put on the
new Mid-Isiand Express route be-
tween Tsawwassen and Nanaimo
to divert mere traffic from Horse-
shoe Bay.
© Pub plans protested:

Concern is raised over the ap-
plication for four new
neighborhood pubs in North Van-
couver: three in North Vancouver
District and one in North Van-
couver City,

@ Locals battle blaze:

A member of the North Shore
Lifebeat Society is one of several
people who risked their lives batt!-
ing ‘a huge inferno that raged out
of contro! at the Kitsilano coast
guard base.

The blaze started when a
pleasure boat caught fire and
drifted under a dock.

After the base was destroyed, a
temporary coast guard facility was
established in West Vancouver.

@ LGH heliport approved:

After years of controversy over
emergency helicopter landings in
the community, Lions Gate Hos-
pital receives approval to build a
landing pad on its roof.

@ Youth club killed:

North Vancouver City Council
rejects a bid for an alcohol-free
dance club on Marine Drive after
business owners near the proposed
site raise concerns about parking,
increased vandalism and drug
pushers.

AUGUST:
@ Moth menace spreads south:

Agriculture Canada in-
vestigators report finding more
gypsy moths on the North Shore.

The findings coincide with the
discovery of moths on the south
side of Burrard Inlet.

In May, the threat to local
forests and forest-product  in-
dustries from Asian gypsy moths
was added to the original threat
posed by the moth’s European
counterpart after the Asian gypsy
moth strain was discovered aboard
Soviet freighters.

The ships had taken on grain at
Vancouver and North Shore grain
terminals.

In December, Agriculture
Canada proposes spraying a bio-
logicai insecticide on the North
Shore and around the Lower
Mainland to halt the advance of
the pest.

@ Golf centre to close:

The Squamish Indian Band an-
nounces that a growing population
on the Squamish Indian reserve
forced the band to pull the lease
of the Lions Gate Golf Centre,
the North Shore's only public
driving range, to provide more
space for housing.

o Canyon claires two:

North Vancouver emergency
crews desperately search for ways
to prevent young Lynn Canyon
cliff divers from venturing past
the park’s posted safety bound-
aries following the latest canyon
tragedy, which resulted in two
deaths.

SEPTEMBER:
@ Rains raise havoc:

Record rainfalls deluge the
Lower Mainland and wash out a
controversial construction project
at the mouth of the Capilano

River; BC Rail traffic and vehicle
traffic along the Squamish High-
way is halted.

@ North Shore mail
halted:

Residential mail delivery is
cancelled after the Canadian
Union of Postal Workers (CUPW)
resume rotating strikes in the
greater Vancouver area.

The service cancellation follow-
ed a similar disruption to North
Shore residential mail delivery in
the previous week.

@ B.C. election called:

B.C. Premier Rita Johnston
anttounces that provincial voters
on the North Shore and around
the province will go to the polls
Oct. 17,

@ Dry dock secured:

B.C.’s ailing shipbuilding in-
dustry receives a major financial
shot in the arm when the federal
and provincial governments, along
with a North Vancouver-based
shipbuilding consortium, finally
reach an agreement to keep Ver-
satile Pacific Shipyards’ (VPSI)
$60-million floating Panamax dry
dock in the Port of Vancouver.

The three parties buy the dock
for $15.8 million,

@ Federal competition hearing
opens:

Southam’s purchase of the
Nerth Shore News and other local
community papers is challenged in
court.

The tribunal hearing is original-
ly scheduled to wrap up in
November, but runs longer than
originally scheduled; the hearing is
set to reconvene this month.

@ Mal? olans unveiled:

Park Royal Shopping Centre
owners, the Larco Group of
Companies, announce that they

delivery

kave earmarked over $20 million
for an upgrade of the shopping
centre.

The project will include new
construction and improvements on
the mall’s north and south sides.
it is expected to be phased in over
a two- ta three-year period,
beginning in the spring of 1992.

Larco purchased Park Royal for
about $160 million last year. The
mall was the first of its kind in
Careada when it opened in 1950.

@ Civit services idled:

Striking federal civil service
employees put most local federal
facilities behind picket lines. The
strike halts grain movement
through North Shore terminals.

Plans to escalate federal civil
service job action along the North
Shore waterfront are averted when
the government and its employees
agree to return to the bargaining
table.

OCTOBER:
@ Ree calls it quits after 12 years:

After 12 years of serving as the
MLA for North Van-
couver-Capilano, Social Credit’s
Angus Ree decides to retire from
politics.

@ Four Ianes for 99:

Studies commissioned by the
Ministry of Transportation and
Highways support the upgrading
of the entire length of Squamish
Highway 99 to four lanes as the
best option of four considered.

The provincia! highways
department held a s:ries of local
public information meetings to
show their plans and gather public
input.

@ Socreds shut out:

A local Liberal party surge in-
dicated in North Shore News polls
leading up to a New Democrat

5l-seat election sweep to provin-
cial power, translates inte three
North Shore seats for the
Liberals. The New Democrais pick
up the other North Shore seat.

David Mitchell wins the race
decisively in West Vancouver-
GariF ‘di. In West Vancouver-
Carpsiano, high-profile Social
Creat: candidate John Reynolds
loses to Liberal Jeremy Dalton.

In North Vancouver-Lonsdale,
New Democrat David Schreck
defeats former North Vancouver
District mayor Marilyn Baker,
who ran in the riding as the Social
Credit candidate.

In North Vancouver-Seymour,
the Liberal tide sweeps in from
Indian Arm and carries Liberal
Daniel Jarvis into office.

The provincial election results
put the North Shore back on the
map as a Liberal stronghold with
three of the 17 Liberal MLA seats
in Victoria. The Socreds, who had
won 49 seats in 1986, manage to
win only seven seats.
N?}VEMBER:

@ Bowen rejects municipal status
by 2-3 margin:

Bowen Island residents reject
municipal status for the island by
an almost 2-1 vote margin, opting
instead to stay within the control
of the Islands Trust and the
Greater Vancouver Regional
District.

DECEMBER:
e@ Truck driver convicted in
Horseshoe Bay death crash:

The driver of a runaway dump
truck loaded with hot asphalt that
crashed into a van full of holiday
travellers at the Horseshoe Bay
ferry terminal in July 1990, killing
two people, is convicted by a B.C.
Supreme Court jury on seven

IN JULY the Kitsilano coast
guard base was destroyed
by fire (lower left) creating a
giant cloud of smoke over
the city; striking federal civil
service employees (lower
tight) shut down North
Shore grain terminals in
September -~ a further
escalation of the strike wes
averted when both sides
agreed to go back to the
bargaining table; the New
Democrats won 57 seats in
the provincial election with
David Schreck (ieft)
defeating jormer NVD mayor
Marilyn Baker in the North
Vancouver-Lonsdale riding
— the Liberals took the
other three seats on the
North Shore.

criminal charges.

Jatinderpal Singh Ubhi, 25, is
scheduled to be sentenced on Jan.
21.

@ District could double:

North Vancouver District is set
to consider the annexation of a
96-square-mile wilderness area
early in 1992.

The addition of the area would
more than double the size of the
North Shore’s largest municipality
by annexing a portion of land in-
cluded within the boundaries of
the Greater Vancouver Regional
District’s (GVRD) Electoral Area
B.
The area includes much of the
Greater Vancouver water supply
catchment, the upper portion of
Lynn Headwaters Regional Park,
Mount Seymour Provincial Park,
provincial Crown lands and some
privately-held land in the Indian
Arm area.

@ Paper mii: planned:

Plans are in place to construct a
$450 million coated paper mill at
Britannia Beach by 1993.

Calgary-based Makin Paper
Ltd. had originally proposed a
combined $400 million pulp and
paper mill for the Howe Sound
site in 1985. 3ut environmental
considerations resulted in a deci-
sion by Makin to relocate the pulp
miil portion of the project.

Construction of the paper
coating plant could begin in 1992.

Long-term plans by the com-
pany call for the eventual devel-
opment of 1,500 homes on the
500-acre section of Britannia
Beach land fronting Howe Sound
and owned by Makin since the
mid-1980s.