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18 - Wednesday, August 6, 1997 ~ Norlh Shore Naws

— Bridge bickering ©
spans decades :

By Layne Christensen

News Reporter
layne@nsnews.cont

CONTROVERSY can-
cerning the First
Narrows Crossing is
not exclusively a mod-
ern-day matter,

Even before the Lions
Gate Bridge was built ir was a
contentious issue,

Design proposals were
rejected, politicians objected
to the expense, and North
Shore residents protested that
bridge-bu ding would
encourage over-development.
Sound familiar?

The = West Vancouver
Museum and: Archives high-
lights the controversy, past
and present, in Lions Gate:
Bridging the Gap, which goes
on display at the West

- Vancouver Memorial Library

tomorrow, and runs to Aug.
17, 5. ”

Historical photos, maps, .

plans, current newspaper clip-
pings and archival correspon-
dence make up the display.

_ Archival material on  dis-

play includes a telegraph from
West .Van’s) mayor J.B.
. Leyland: regarding the con-
.. struction of. Lions Gate: The
‘wire owas. sent to Ottawa
“March 30, 1936, with’ the
“Argent news that immediate
“work. ’ stoppage © in’. West

- Vancouver was certain unless -

bridge approval was assured.

Wrote Leyland: “Any such,

action, would™ throw. large

numbers of married- men out’
of employment, would be.dis-
astrous publicity for Greater

Vancouver during Jubilee Year
‘and would prevent investment

of. new British capital “in, this .

“part.” Pred

“ Community
archivist David Wardie, who
assembled the display, s said the

“records

CONTROVERSY is nothing

new to. the Lions Gate.

Bridge, bulit in 1996 and the topic of conversation since.

telegraph i is just a sampling of
the reams of material chat is
squirrelled away in . the

- archives.

“We've got a fair. bit of
stuff here that deals with the
crossing,” said Wardle. He
estimates there are at least a
thousand documents that
relate to the issue, including

" current news accounts,
The goal of the. display, he:

said,:is to make the archives:
more accessible to the public.
“There's a stercotype that

it has to be ancient stuff rid-’

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