22 - North Shore News ~ Sunday. August 20. 2000

Life i

CHUCK and Doris
(Modin) Forrest can be
counted among the
treasures of the North
Shore, and there are
many here.

Honesty and dedication
have be
their family, their careers and
community living.

Chick and Doris have
successfully met the chal-
lenges and weathered the
storms as together they
walked the pathways of lite.
After 58 years of wedded
bliss, these former roller-rink
sweethearts continue to make
memories.

Ar St. Paul*s Hospital in
Vancouver on Dec. 26, 918
was when Chuck made his
entrance on this globe.

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His parents and their two
children moved to West
Vancouver in the early 1920s,
where Chuck enjoyed a
happy childhood. He has
wonderful memories of fish-
ing in the creeks and off
Dundarave pier.

“I remember well some of
the shops in Dundarave in
those days, like the Willson &
Moore Grocery, Morgan's
Realty Shop and Charlie
Lauder Senior's butcher

shop. he recalls.

Chuck attended
Dundaraye, Pauline Johnson
and Inglewood schools,

Doris is a North Shore

local, of Swedish background.

One of three children, Doris
had a wonderful childhood.
She was born in 1920 at the
Cedar Mill site, now known
as Lynn Headwaters Park, in
Lynn Valley.

Doris remembers: *The
Cedar Mill was closed in
1927 and burned down in
1929. My father cleared this
property by hand, and in
1925 built this home where
we now five. [ have lived in
this house for 75 years.”

When she was six, her
family took a three-month
trip to Sweden by train and
buat.

“We travelled by train to

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Montreal, boarded the ship
Aurania to Liverpool,

and, than travelled across
E neland by train, and finally
by ‘boat to Sweden. | shall
never forget that trip. It was
so exciting.”

Dons was educated in
Lynn Valley and at North
Vancouver High School.
After graduating she complet-
ed a sewing course and
obtained employment in the
Girls Appare] Shop at the
corner of Granville and
Pender streets in Vancouver.

Doris first met Chuck in
1940 at the West Vancouver
Roller Rink on 17th and
Bellevue. After many an
enjovable evening at the
roller rink, Chuck would
escort Doris home via the

See 58th wedding page 24

NEWS photo Cindy Goodman

CHUCK and Doris Forrest, at home in Lynn Vailey, first
met at the West Van Roller Rink in 1940. in ’42, while on
leave from the air force, Chuck married his sweetheart.

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