24 - Wednesday, May 13, 1987 - North Shore News

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Early WV remembered

FERRIES LEFT
TWICE A DAY

WEST VANCOUVER is still home
to many families who moved here
when the district was incorporated
in 1912,

One such family is the Colpitts,
where all eight children still live in
the area — six in West Vancouver,
one in North Vancouver and one
in Vancouver.

The eldest, Helen Colpitts, 77,
still lives in the family home, a
wooden house on Fulton Avenue,
built by her father in 1917,

Franx and Janet Colpitts moved
to West Vancouver from New
Brunswick when Helen was one
year old. Their other children, are
Frank, Lorne, Evelyn, Eunice,
Maric, Agnes and Billie.

Helen said the family home had
no electricity until 1923, and the
family had to use coal oil lamps
and fetch water from the crecks,

She said transportation back and
forth from Vancouver meant a
walk to the waterfront, where fer-
ries would leave two to three times
a day.

See WV
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LONG-TIME West Vancouver
resident Helen Colpitts stands
in front of the home ber father
built in 1917.

The oldest landmark in West Vancouver
Remember going to the local Drug Store for a
Soda and hanging out with the local group, enjoy-
ing that Friendly Personalized Service. The tradi-

tion still goes on at Ambleside Pharmacy.

Ambleside Pharmacy
922-4135

1402 MARINE DRIVE, WEST VAN.

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WEST VANCOUVER

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The Park Royal Hotel salutes West Vancouver on its 75th An-
niversary. We are proud to have been 2 member of Vancouver's
most beautiful municipality since 1958, when the hotel was built
by Mr. Viggo Eriksen, a retired ship's chandler. Mr. Eriksen’s
hand-hewn beams still grace our lobby, and the beautiful Tudor-
style inn is still covered by the Virginia Creeper he planted 29
years ago. His choice of location beside the Capilano River is
even more lush and beautiful than it was then as we constantly
upgrade and maintain the surrounding gardens. Since Mr.
Eriksen’s time, we have become world-famous for our excellent
cuisine which has earned us the coveted Mobile 4 Star award,
befitting the high standards of West Vancouver.

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R 540 CLYDE AVE., WEST VAN
926-5511, desk or 922-2828, restaurant