JAMES Cooper Keith
loved the North Shore
and as a noted share-
holder in the North
Vancouver Land and.
Improvement Company
he was a prime instiga-
tor in the incorporation
of the District of North
Vancouver.

Born in Aberdeen,
Scotland in 1852, to a family
of well-known _ financiers,
Keith came to Victoria in
1876 to take a position with
the new Bank of British
Columbia.

He married Ann, in 1879,
daughter of the Honorable
Roderick Finlayson, chief fac-
tor of the Hudson’s Bay
Company in Victoria. As a
latidowner and banker, Keith
controlled large tracts of land
and became wealthy through
wise real estate investments.

A bylaw was passed by the
newly elected municipal coun-
cil to negotiate a loan of
$40,000 to open up trunk
roads through the District of

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THE view from Keith Road and Detbruck, looking east, in 1920.

North Vancouver in 1892.
When Keith underwrore the
loan at par, Keith Road was
named after him.

Keith Road extended west
of Eagle Harbour (West
Vancouver) and from the
Capilano River to the North
Arm (of Burrard Inlet and the
Seymour River).

J.C. Keith was the second
Reeve of North Vancouver
from 1893-94. In 1904, he
was the Director of the

Western Corporation Lrtd.,
combining several businesses
into one: real estate, house
building, general contracting,
sawmilling, roadmaking, Jand-
clearing and other enterprises.

The corporation planned
and built the first business
block (Aberdeen Block) in
North Vancouver.

Keith later bevame the
president of che North
Vancouver Board of Trade.
Known as one of the most

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Keith died in 1914 at the age
of 62, leaving behind his wife
Ann and one daughter Mary
Isabella.

Down Memory Lane is a
series of columns by North
Vancouver writer Janell Hilton

land investor

which reveals the stories behind
the street names around the
North Shore. Information sup-
plied by Roy Pallant, the
Vancouver “Archives, and
North Vancouver Museum &
Archives (987-5618).

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