10 - Sunday, September 11, 1988 — West Vancouver Villager

West Van waterfront is alive with history

WEST VANCGUYVER'S active
waterfront is alive with history and
memories of past endeavors and
pioneering triumphs. The follow-
ing is a collection of shoreline his-
torical stories submitted by the
West Vancouver Museum and His-
torical Society.

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Longtime West Vancouver resi-
dents can test their memory of
placenames with this quiz. Here
are the old names; what are the
places called today? 1. Robertson
Point. 2. Batchelor Cove. 3.
Bridgman Point. 4. Robson Cove.
5. Johnson Cove. 6. Claymore
Cove. 7. Ettershank Cove. 8. Pat-
terson Cove. 9. Readon Point.

ANSWERS: :

1. Tyee Point. 2. Fisherman’s
Cove. 3. Batchelor Point. 4. Eagle
Harbour. 5. Fisherman’s Cove. 6.

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Pilot Cove. 7.
West Bay. 9. Navvy Jack Point.

Dundarave Pier at the foot of
25th Street was built in 1914 at a
cost of $40,000.

The intention was to provide a
second dock for an extension of
the ferry service. But, in 1916, by
popular demand, a bus service
from I4th Street to 25th Street was
initiated and quickly replaced the
ferry service to the pier.

The building on the east side of
the pier, now known as ‘‘Peppi's’’
was built in 1912 by the Steven-
sons, a Scottish family, who nam-
ed it ‘‘The Clachan’’ and who
operated it as a weekend hotel and
restaurant.

That name remained until 1940

when the property was bought by

the municipality for parkland.

It_ has since been leased to a
number of tenants who operated it
as the ‘‘Breakers’’, ‘‘St. Mawes"’,

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Sandy Cove. 8.

and now ‘‘Peppi’s”’.

In 1919, the *‘Fortune Cup Inn”
was erected on the west side of
25th Street.

This was probably West Van-
couver’s first apartment block.
Suites could be rented, and a
spacious lounge on the ground
floor was available for teas and
other social functions.

The first. P.T.A. met there be-
fore 1930. Eventually it became
low rental accommodation. In
1971, because it did not meet
modern safety and fire standards,
and because the land was wanted
for an expansion to Dundarave
Park, 3t was demolished.

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West Vancouver shared in the
lumbering and fishing industries

which brought British Columbia
into the industrial world.

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FLAVORFUL
FRENCH

Chez Michel has stood the test of
time by consistently offering excellent
French food, combines with an
intimate yet relaxed atmosphere and
a spectacular view of the harbour.

The siopes of Hollyburn Ridge
provided fir logs for the lumber
mills of Vancouver Harbour and
cedar logs for lumber and for the
shingles that roofed the houses of
growing Vancouver.

Several shingle mills operated in
West Vancouver itself — at 15th
and Inglewood, at 14th and Es-
quimal, at 27th and Marine Drive,
and at Sharon Drive along the side
of the P.G.E. Railway at Sandy
Cove.

Half a mile beyond Sandy Cove
is now the federal government’s
Fisheries Research laboratory, for
years a thriving fish cannery.

About 1881, an Englishman
named Sam Brighouse, one of
Vancouver’s original Three
Greenhorns, built the first plant.

He sold out in 1900 to another
Englishman named Sherman, after
whom the area was eventually
named.

Chez Michel exudes the elegance and style of
_| a fine European restaurant. Michel Segur, owner,
fills it with his natural courtesy and charm.

The varied menu offers a wonderful selection to
suite everyone’s taste and pocketbooks. the early
bird special between 5:30 & 6:30 p.m. offers
f particularly good value. Diners can select from
5 entrees, all for $9.95.

Located in the newly renovated Ambleside Chez
Michel remains a reliable locale for first rate
French cuisine.

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In 1912, the Millerd farnity ac-
quired the cannery and changed
the name from Defiance to the
Great Northern.

When the federal government
selected the site as ideal for a
research station in 1968, the
Millerds sold out and the first
phase of the research station was
established.

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In 1898, Francis W. Caulfeild,
visiting from Cornwall, England,
took a cruise along the shore-line
and was so impressed by what he
saw that, the following year, 1899,
he purchased a large acreage runn-
ing from Cypress Creek to the
rocky shores of Howe Sound.

During the years from 1899 to
1909, Mr. Caulfeild developed a
fine residential area, laying out his
roads and lots to conform to the
contours of the land.

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