LYNN VALLEY

Pioneer days live on in Nye

-MOLLIE NYE. says she still
enjoys the results of 40 years
of teaching on the “North
Shore.

By Anna Marie D'Angelo
_News Reporter

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The’ Bl -yed ur-old daughter of it
* Lynn Valley: pioneer say nner
students ‘still knock on her door. for
“visits after all the many years away
“from school, S

“LT had..to
California
her then.” said Nye about a recent
Visitor. :

- “A-child that was about 13.14
‘or 15: looks: a -tot different when
2 > they*ve gone grey.” she said with a
- Hight laugh. -

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Nye was born.in [913 in the
Harborview Sanatorium near the
North Vancouver City waterfront.

That same year, her father, Jack
Nye. built the’ family heme on
Lynn Valley Road. where his
daughter still tives,

Jack Nye and his brother Tom
Nye were cach given a [60-acre

grant of land in North Vancouver ©

for their service in the Boer War,
Tom Nye's land. included. what is
now the Carrishrooke area’ in
Upper Lonsdale. Se
Jack’ Nye owned a forested
chunk of Lyon Valley, The Nye’s
home was the only;one on Lynn
Valley Road when it was built.
Nye started her. 42-year teach.
ing career in 1932. Nye wis 19
when she started teaching in a one-
room country school in the Rocky

Mountains. She came back-to.the
North Shore and’ taught genera-
tions of students in clomentary
high school,

“Yn42 years, thi ut Covers a lot of

people,” said Nye...

Nye said that some of her stu
dents thought she jwas strict, but
she says Chat depends on whom she
is compared to, 27

In recent.) years, North

Vancouver District named a street.

near her home in hanor: of the
school teacher, |, ,

“E haven't: quite got used to it
yeu” said Nye about seeing her

- name on the top of a street signs

The North’ Vancouver school
board: has also henored. Nye: by
naming @ teacher's award for out-
sanding community’ service after
ner, i

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Name: Mollie Nye
Born: 1913. in
Vancouver Fon
Claim tof fame: Taught
school on’ ‘the North Shore
for - most of her 42-year
teaching career, She started
teaching in 1932.
‘How she came to live on
wthe'North Shore: | live ina
‘house my father built in the
same year | was born. Dad
‘was given © an’ 160-acre
“grant of land in Lynn Valley -
as part. payment after, he
fought in the South African .
war. It was all forested. We
had the only house on-Lynn
Valley Road. Be
Favorite... Place on’ the
North Shore: Lynn Canyon.
1 have pleasant memories
of a‘lot of picnics there i in
the summer.

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