Central
was first
permanent

North Y2n
school

Dear Editor:

Re: ‘‘Nothing wrong with
Hillside’? (Mailbox, April 5).

Your correspondent asked,
“Are we foolish enough to believe
buildings 30 years old are out-
moded, unfit for our children in
West Vancouver while North
Vancouver still has Queen Mary,
its first school?”

When the Queen Mary school
building was opened in 1915 it
was regarded (along with the new
Victoria Normal Schoo!) as ‘the
finest educational building in Brit-
ish Columbia’; it was weil
designed, and expensive, which
explains why it is still in use.

But Queen Mary was not the
first school in North Vancouver.
The first permanent facility was
the Central School, a two-room
fructure in 1903, four rooms in
1907, six rooms by 1908, with
later alterations, which became the
City Hall after Queen Mary
school opened, and is today still
functioning, as Presentation
House.

Not including a number of
temporary accommodations in
various parts of the city and
district, North Star (lower school,
1911), Lonsdale School (1911),
Ridgeway School (1912), Lynn
Valley {second provincial school,
1912) and Keith Lynn School,
1914, were all in service before
Queen Mary School was opened.

A.L. Luzenby
North Vancouver

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insensitivity
Dear Editor: ,

Your choice of front page
photography (April 24) has left
me wondering whether your paper
really has a philosophy of printing
only the cheap and scurrilous.

In a comrnunity that is still as
small as the North Shore there are

many of us who knew and.

respected Dr. Verne Flather, and
to see his final minutes of fife
represented oa your front page by
a bloody hand does not iadicate
that you have the least sensitivity
or responsibility towards the
community you pretend to repre-
sent.

At the very least I believe you
owe an apology to his family .
Aslene Jackson
North Vancouver

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