Creek
FiSiks
gauged

Martin Millerchip

News Reporter
martin@nsnews.com

A $100,060 consultant
report conunissionea by
North Vancouver
District has provided a
risk assessment for
approximately 40 creek
systems in the munici-
pality.

Flood records in the district
are not well documented but it
is known that a major
Mosquite Creek flood caused
significant property damage on
Nov. 3, 1955.

Culverting of many North
Shore creeks was proposed by
the Greater = Vancouver
Regional District in the ’60s to
reduce potential flood damage,
but citizen protest resulted in
the installation of only a few
culverts such as sections of
Mosquito and Kilmer creeks.

West Vancouver suffered a
serious flood on Dec. 25,
1972, and other significant
local floods occurred through
the °70s.

Qn Oct. 31, 1981, the “ty oats : a ee -

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breached as a result of blocked CAUSED BY FLOGDING AS A RESULT OF DEBRIS AND DAMAGE CAUSED DIRECTLY FROM DEBRIS
culverts causing extensive

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CITY SEARCH
> be FOR PHOTOS OF
tf ublic FORMER ALDERMEN
Information OO
Session

The Board of the North Share Health
Region invites you to attend afi
information session.
tt When: Wednesday, July 28, 1999
| _ 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
:l] Where: North Shore Conference Centre
#104, 1999 Marine Drive
North Vancetver

(next to Staples, intersection of
Marine Drive and Capilano Road)

“Daring this session, the Board will present
an overview of significant events; update
its progress; receive reports from Board
Committees; and outline the process for
‘appointment to the NSHR_ Board.
Questions and comments are welcomed.

For information, contact
’ NSHR Communications at 994-3866.

The City Clerk's office is currently trying to
complete its photographic library of former
City Aldermen. The public's assistance is
requested to help locate photographs of
former Aldermen. No picture is too small
or too large, and ali photos will be returned.

Your help is needed in locating photographs of the following City Aldermen:

Gerald Armour Jardine (1965 - 66) Dugald Henderson McColl (1920 - 22)
Thomas Alfred Thornycroft Rhodes (1959 - 60) Benjamin Evans (1919).
Violet Maud Johnsen (Mrs.) (1952 - 55) Thomas Robert Clark (1917 - 18)
Archibald Stewart (1546 - 55) George Albert McBain (1947 - 48)
William Lofcus Templeton (1950) Edwy Allan Morden : (1916-19)
Peter Alfred White _ (1949) Thomas Irwin (1916 - ~ 20)
Ivan Roscoe Miller (1945) Hugh Alexander MacDonald (1915)
William Anderson Brown (F931 - 32) Robert J. Fowler (1914)
Alfred Huggett (1931 - 32) Isaac Walden (1910)
Garnet Henry Page {1932 » 33) Herbert Walter Young (1909)
John Norman White (1927 - 30) Commissioner John Villiers Fisher (1934)
Donald Edgar Cameron (1925)
Arthur Prior (1922 - 23}
Michael Brown Martinson (1922) . : :

- Henry Wilmourst Peattie Cochrane (1921) Mayor Jack E. Loucks

Councillor John Braithwaite

PLEASE CONTACT; janis Rowe, City Clerk's Department at 985-7761 (Local 296), coun nee P me

june Thompson, Assistant Archivist or Francis Mansbridge, Archivist ; Councillor Darrell Mi
of the North Vancouver Museum and Archives 987-5618, for further information. Councilor Bart Parvaute’.

Councillor Barbara Sharp +

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