CATHERINE McPhail has worked for the owners of Sonia Rykiel for
five years in which time the store has moved and changed its focus.

“WHEN: she’s ‘not “at Capilano College studying, Shiva Farhoosh
works at one of two stores in the 2400 biock of Marine Drive.

DONNA Sinclair followed a worldly road en route to landing as the

owner of.a hair salon in Dundarave.

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Wednesday, June 3, 1998 — North Shore News — 17

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NEWS photos Mike Wakefield

CALVIN'S Cafe's Hermann Orth, like his two co-owners emigrated to
Canada from Switzerland and hasn't stopped having fun since.

Swiss chefs add flavor
0 Dundarave’s diversity

Robert Galster

News Reporter
robert@nsnews.com

THREE chefs and a cafe ~’
accurately describes
Dundarave’s Calvin’s Cafe
and Catering.

The three chefs are Milo Bigler,
Hermann Orth and Rene Widmer,
all of whom immigrated ro Canada
from Switzerland in the last 25
years.

They worked at a variety of
restaurants until they purchased
what has since been called Calvin's
five years ago.

“The business was
for sale and we looked
and it’s not. that we |

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were tired of working |
for somebody else but:
it’s fun — that's the
most important thing

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these days,” summed MARINE OR. 2400

up Orth who came to

Canada 23 vears ago.

“I came to travel to see some-
thing different and then I got
stuck,”

Although their venture start-
ed as a breakfast and lunch outfit,
they’ve since dropped breakfast and
added dinner. Catering for parties
of up to 300 also figures promi-
nently on their agendas.

Fresh start
Catherine McPhail has been work-
ing for the owners of Sonia Rykiel
for nearly five years. In that time the
store has changed names, moved
and switched from selling antiques
to selling clothing. Formerly
Juilliard Antiques, it moved to

Dundarave four months ago.

Specializing in Japanese ladies
fashions and men’s wear manufac-
tured in the same factory that pro-
duces Armani, the store is slowly
being discovered by the area's clien-
tele.

“Dundarave’s going through a
tansition right now — it's going
through some growing pains
now,” said McPhati diplomatically
adding people are starting to come
back to the area after its recent
facelift.

McPhail’s own story also
involves 2 move — crossing a coun-
try nor a municipaliry.

“f just came here 20 years ago
from Montreal and the west coast is

so different than the east coast,”

said McPhail.

doors.”

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Store swap
Shiva Farhoosh, 23,
likewise works at a

clothing store. She has one

other thing in common with

McPhail: the same owner. Both

Sonia Rykiel and Takezo share
owners and, as Farhoosh can attest,
employces, The Capilano College
student splits her time between the
two stores.

“1 like clothing stores ~ it’s a bit
quiet but it’s okay,” said Farhoosh
who can probably busy herself with
schoal work when boredom sets in.

Farhoosh arrived in Canada
from her native Iran 3% years ago
and, save fora slight accent, doesn’t
seem to have missed a beat.

“It’s good,” she said of her
adopted country.

Go west young girl
By the time Donna Sinclair turned:
16 she had seen enough pictures of
the west coast to want to leave her
native Estevan, Saskatchewan
behind. And she did. -

“When I was a young girl 1
remember secing people at the
beach in May and I’m just a beach
girl,” said Sinclair. .

She has since lived in Australia,
raised four sons and returned to
open her own hair salon.

“T love being here — I like my
corner,” she said of her location.

But all good things must come
to an end and her location is no
exception as her lease will soon run
out. Her plans call for relocating in
an adjacent building that has yer to
be built. .

All the rest...

The other businesses on the block
are (cast to west) Giverny Flowers,
Bank of Montreal, Dundarave
Centre, Otto and — Associates
Insurance, Bohemia Antiques,
Dundarave Wine Cellar, Dundarave
Bakery, Dr. Paul D. Conway den-
tis, The Cherry Tree, Amber
Books, Gcean Gallery. Red Horses,
Harry’s | Market, =Dundasave
Stationery, Vitamin ~~ House,
Dundarave Fish and Chips,
Brambles and. Blooms Garden
Shop, Jim’s Hardware, Beverly Hills
Hair Design, Dundarave
Chocolazes and Capers’.

Ifyou have a business that is part
of a unique or otherwise worthwhile
block or know of any, fet us know.
Write t0 Commercial Avenues ¢/o
Robert Galster at the North Shore

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