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1930 May Queen Peggy rides in the front seat of a decorated « car to her coronation. The West Van Museum and Historical Society welcomes any other

information about Miss West Vancouver.

WV May Day history ¥
goes back to 1930

The following article is provided
courtesy of the West Vancouver
Museuin & Historical Society. The
Society appreciates any additions
submitted for the historical records
of West Vancouver, and it wel-

- comes new members of any age.

Contact 926-2643 for information.

THE SPIRIT of a com-
munity is often indicated by
the holidays it chooses as its
special days.

Buring the early period of the
North Shore, a day that emerged
as important was Victoria Day.
Perhaps it was the strength of Vic-
toria’s empire that stirred the loy-
alty of her people.

Victoria’s birthday was celebrat-
ed May 24, the idea of the closest
Monday not yet having caught on
— only if the holiday occurred on
a Sunday was it transferred to the
following Monday.

North Vancouver had its May
Day and its May Queen as early as
1927, a celebration in which West
Vancouver participated — an Ar-
chives picture shows a group of
West Vancouver young — ladies
aboard the back of a truck, ready
to be transported to dance before
the North Vancouver Queen.

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In 1930 there began to be mur-
murs that West Vancouver should
be doing something for its own
children, a Children’s Day of some
sort. The Parent Teacher Associa-
tions of Hollyburn and Pauline
Johnson schools turned those
murmurs into action, possibly with
assisiance, although it is not
documented, from the PTA of a
third West Vancouver elementary
school, Dundarave.

In 1930, the two or three
associations met jointly in the For-
tune Cup Inn and decided to spon-
sor a Children’s Day on May 24,

At the May Day Ball of 1931,
flowers were presented to Mrs.
H.G. Selwood, under whose
auspices the first May Day had
been held.

Presiding over this first West
Vancouver May Day function was
not a May Queen but a Miss West
Vancouver, It is a reasonable guess
that the sponsors wished to
distinguish their efforts from those
of North Vancouver. The honor
went to six-year-old Mavis Whip-

le.

The May 30, 1930 edition of the
West Vancouver News newspaper
reports that Miss West Vancouver
was attended by a court of three
young ladies; Diana Chapman of
Dundarave; Pat Hodgson of
Pauline Johnson; and Bunnie
Whipple of Hollyburn. There were
three flower girls: Eileen Russell,
Jean McLeod and Doreen Kearns

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