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iA lifetime of community service

ARTHUR (Art) and
Margaret (Currie) Coy
‘are among the North
Shore’s finest, and
there are many here.

Their story is about two
caring locals growing up in
the spectacular setting of the
North Shore; a war, careers,
a family, and a lifetime of
voluntary participation in
the community — people
cdring for people.-

The house at. the corner
of 17th and Lonsdale, where
the Extra Foods Market now-
stands, was the birthplace of
Arthur in 1917; He was one

~ of three children and his
family lived there until he:

' Those’ wer happy y years |
for Art...

‘There were four families
living around the 17th &
Lonsdale corner, and their
families became great
friends, sort of a tiny neigh-
-bourhood within, them-

~ selves. °.

Art enjoyed school sports. _

“and took badminton very
-$erious., He and his friends
“avould practise badminton in
.-the ‘drill hall on Forbes and

15th: There were four bad-
‘minton courts there, and

they also played basketball.

n summers, they played *
th the West Van Ten

Art attended Lonsdale
“School and North Van High
chool, graduating in 1935.
“Art reflects on the happy

amping trips in the 1920s:
and ’40s with Mr. Eb Crute, -
chool teacher who ran a-
amp at Eagle: Harbour in:
= the: West. Vancouver area. -

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LONGTIME North Shore residents, Art and Margaret
Coy were friends in high school and tater married.

_ per boy for ‘two weeks, and

each boy was to bring as
much food as he could.

_. “We would sleep in army
tents on the hill. Mostly, the
boys were army cadets and
boys from the St. Andrew's
United Church.”

Circumstances in life

"don’t always turn vut as we
“would have them, and ©.
although we move onward,

we often wonder “What
if.” 5
Art reealls: “For} years,

my“uncle owned a thiee-acre

piece of | roperty at the top
of the hil in the Edgewood
area, known today as the
-area between Ruby Avenue. ,
‘and Sunset. Blvd. He told ©
my brother Charlie and me,-

vat we could use the prop-

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erty as long we paid the
property taxes — $13 per
acre. So we logged the
property and sold the logs
and shingle bolts, but we
still came up short of the
$39 for the taxes. .
“Moncey was very tight in
those days. We did not have

the money and there seemed |

no way to get it, so we had

~ to let the property go —

after all that work. You can

‘imagine what that property
. is worth today. Necdless to
say we get sick just thinking

about what could have
been.”

After finishing school,
Art found work at a machin-

: ery shop in Vancouver for a

short time, before being
accepted for employment

with the Canadian Mint,
Vancouver branch, where he
stayed for three years.
Afthough he wanted to join
the air force, the Canadian
Mint would not release him
undl they found a replace
ment.

On Jan. 15, 1942, Art
joined the air force and
started his training at
Calgary. He completed his
pilot’s training and received
his wings in 1943. He then
became a fying instructor at
McLeod, Alberta for a time
before he was sent to
Abbotsford to form a crew.

Art and his crew were
sent overseas to India to fly
a tour of operations in
southeast Asia. The
squadron’s longest land-
based flight of the war was
24 hours, 10 minutes.

Art with his crew of five
men flew many flights of
over 23 hours. Their pur-
pose was to fly behind
enemy lines and drop men
and supplies.

North Vancouver was
also the birthplace, in 1920,
of Margaret Currie. One of
avo children, she recalls a
very happy childhood.

In particular, she has
fond memories of playing
tennis, badminton, and
horseback riding. She
attended the Graham Woods
Riding School at the top of
Norwood Avenue and spent
many a pleasant weekend
there.

Margaret was educated at
North Star School, North
Van High School, both in
North Vancouver, and the
Duffus School of Business in
Vancouver. She graduated in
1939. For the next eight
years she worked as a med-
ical office assistant in the
medical /dental_ building-on
Georgia Street in Vancouver.

Returning home to the
North Shore after the war,
Art accepted employment in’.
the installations and repairs
department of the B.C.
Telephione Company, work-
ing generally in the Lower
Mainland. He stayed with
BC Tei for 35 years, retiring *
as supervisor in June of
1980

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Good friends in high
scnool, Art and Margaret
married in 1947. Atter a few
vears, they bought a lor at
the corner of Queens and
St. Marys, and built their
home where they lived for
+5 vears.

The Coys have three chil-
dren, cight grandchildren
and two great-grandchil-
dren,

After their children grew
older, Margaret re-entered
the workforce in the medical
stenouraphic field, doing
part-time work, She retired
in 1970 tor three months,
then returned again, this
time to work for a chiro-
practor in North Vancouver,
Dr. R. Manson. She worked
for another 10 years before
finally retiring in 1980.

Margaret, as a young per-
son, attended the North
Lonsdale United Church,
then she transferred to St.
Andrews United Church
where she taught Sunday

See Coys page 32

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