NORTH VANCOUVER Ci-
ty’s Emerald Park Lodge is
once again awaiting new te-
nants.

Offers for the landmark
building, which was erected in
1904 by the city’s first solicitor, Sir
Alfred St. George Hamersley, are
being carefully studied by city
staff.

The city recently spent $8,000
weeding and cleaning up Emerald
Park’s grounds in hopes of attrac-
ting someone who will upgrade the
stately lodge’s facilities and restore
it to a fine dining establishment.

The city leased out the lodge as a
restaurant in 1981, but the reces-
sion in the early 80s and delays in
licensing killed the first restaurant
operation in the lodge. New
management resurrected the lodge
restaurant in 1984, but again
business died off and it went into
receivership last May.

But with the right operator,
business will turn around, city land
agent Don Stigson said recently.

“It’s really a jewel,’’ he said of
the lodge.

refused

TONS & TONS
OF STUFF

No reasonable offer

Emerald Park was built atop
two giant granite slabs in the mid-
dle of park land at 350 East Se-
cond St. by Hamersley, who mov-
ed to Vancouver from England in
1888.

He built the tudor-style manor
to house family and friends while
they were on North Shore hunting
trips.

“They used to row across the in-
Jet, hunt, and then row’ back
again,’’ Stigson said.

Hamersley moved into the
house, but then returned to
England where he eventually died.

His family sold the house in
1906, and it was converted into a
private hospital during the First
and Second World Wars.

The lodge was later used as a
boarding house, and then did a
20-year stint as a rest home.

In order to retain the building as
a heritage structure, the city ac-
quired it in 1974 through a land
exchange with a private developer.

The city has completely cleared
and fertilized the gardens and
pruned the trees, but the lessee will
have to do a lot of work to get the
restaurant on its feet again,
Stigson said.

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