WEST Vancouver's Marine Drive, circa 1920, followed some of the same route the
“turty, tedious” Keith Road had at the very beginning of the century. Anyone with
early photos of West Van is asked to contact the News at 985-2131, local 132.

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Wednesday, January 20, 1999 — North Shore News - 13

EIGHBOURHOODS
The road to Pt. Atkinson

AT the end of the 19th
century, West
Vancouver was a
sparsely populated
community.

According to author
Bruce Ramsey, in his
Chronicle af West Vancouver
(1912-1987): A Place of
Excellence, when the District
of North Vancouver incorpo-
rated in 1891, the population
of the new municipality was
300, and west of the
Capilano River, there was
only the lighthouse keeper,
possibly Navy Jack Thomas
and a few squatters.

Most residents of North
Vancouver were employed by

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ft was only after a mercy
mission by boar to the fight-
house in Point Atkinson by
Moodvville’s nurse, Mrs.
Susan Patterson, that the
council decided to build a
road from Deep Cove to
Eagle Harbour.

In February, 1892, coun-
cil decided to borrow a sum

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