Park Plaza Members Name your sport (ff TENNIS is your game, join the North Shore Winter Club with its four indoor courts and its four outdoor courts. There are four racquetball courts too. Ten curling sheets and two skating rinks. Come see us today, or call NO TRANSFER FEE We are accepting straight transfers of member- ships from Park Plaza Members. 985-4135 NORTH SHORE WINTER CLUB .1325 East Keith Road A Club for all seasons, for all reasons. re seniors re ty s Survive hotel fires PAGE 45 herit This is the first in a series of four articles that will be running on the Lifestyles front on Sundays, saluting some of the North Shore’s pioneers. LIKE MANY early settlers on the North Shore, Charles and Winnifred Harding remember a time when the area was primarily bush and everyone knew their neighbors. The North Vancouver couple, who married here in 1930, said res- idents would regularly get together for a barbecue at the waterfront. “‘We lived near what is now the (Lonsdale) Quay,’’ said Winnifred. “It used to be a cow pasture. Doris Cowenberg, 85, said she can still picture in her mind the lit- tle shops along Lower Lonsdale. “It was so nice and friendly,"’ she said. ‘‘You’d go down the street and know everyone.” John Blair, 78, remembers the time when the sidewalks along Lonsdale were wooden boards. And like many of the first set- tlers to the North Shore, Blair had a@ summer cottage in West Van- couver by the seashore, “It was my old stomping ground,’’ he said. “Deep Cove to Horseshoe Bay was our life in those days.’”’ All four were interviewed recent- ly about the early years on the North Shore. Alli tive in Kiwanis Home in North Vancouver, and agree they never considered retir- By KIM PEMBERT! News Reporter ing elsewhere. Of the group, Charles Harding, who was born in England, has liv- ed here the longest. Harding was among the first students to attend the North Shore's first school — Central, which was focated at 4th and Chesterfield. The year was 1908. Winnifred Harding, who was also born in England, moved to Victoria first with her parents be- fore coming to North Vancouver. She said this was a time when property on the North Shore could be bought at a reasonable price. When the Hardings married, Charles said he bought two lots of land on the corner of 8th Street and Henry Street. This is where he Aa OFF FACILITIES & SERVICES EXCLUSIVELY FOR WOMEN & MODERN WEIGHT TRAINING EQUIP. & PROGRAMS FOR TONING, TRAINING AND BODY SHAPING & AEROBICS CLASSES #* NO BOUNCE AEROBICS % CUSHIONED WOOD FLOOR % FREE WEIGHTS * WHIRLPOOL & SAUNA # PRIVATE SHOWERS # INDIVIDUAL LOCKERS ® LIFECYCLE & FAN BIKES %& PRIVATE DRESSING BOOTHS & OVER 400 CLUBS ACROSS NOATH AMERICA & AND MUCH, MUCH MORE! Ew ADULT PATRONS OMY = 4444 Marine Drive Bm North Vancouver Es ee os 39 - Sunday, January 18, 1987 - North Shore News ie SUERTE pas eaeer eee built the family home. He recalled paying $400 for one lot, which was 150-feet wide and $450 for the other lot. “The house I built is still stan- ding,’ he said, noting, ‘‘it's as good as ever.”’ Cowenberg said she lived on 17th Street, near Grand Boulevard, and remembers sharing the neighborhood with bears. “There was so much bush in Lynn Valley,’’ she said. ‘‘There were lots of animals. But I've never wanted to move. I’ve always lived here and I know so many people.” Blair said in the early days one of the main recreationai activities for North Shore residents was hik- ing Grouse Mountain. “IT used to go on the mountain every weekend,”’ he said. ‘*l was one of the first ones to go up by car when Grouse Road was first built. “Of course we never dreamed we would have places like Whistler and Cypress. To see Whistler become a world-scaJe resort — that’s something.”’ =ppa (Lad