Al8-Wednesday, June 25, 1980 - North Shore News

community roundup

A public campaign
for funds to restore St.
Paul’s Indian Church
on the Mission Reserve
in North Vancouver
will be launched next
week, campaign
chairman C. Peter
Jones announced
today.

Jones said $500,000 is
needed to make this church
@ functional and lasting
heritage building and
$300,000 of this amount will
be sought from individual
and corporate donors.

Hand in hand with the
appeal for individual support
the Save St. Paul’s Indian
Church Committee is un-
dertaking a special campaign
among larger corporations.
This, is under the chair-
manship of Donald Lanskail,
president of the Council of
Forest Industries of B.C.

The Save St. Paul's
campaign committee was
formed last year. Its
membership is made up of a
wide spectrum of the

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community: Indian and non-
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faiths.

Jones said St. Paul’s
Church, in continuous use
since 1886, has suffered
serious deterioration and the
wood-frame structure is
threatened with irreparable
damage unless attended to
soon. Restoration work is to
start this summer.

Tax receipts will be issued
for contributions as they are
received. Donations should
be made out to St. Paul’s
Restoration Fund, at 302-235
- 15th Street, West Van-
couver, B.C. V7T 2X1.

The original St. Paul's
Church structure was built
on the Mission Indian
Reserve on the North Shore
in 1884 by the Squamish
Indians in cooperation with
the Oblate Missionaries. It
was officially dedicated on
June 13, 1886 — the same
historic day that fire
destroyed much of early
Vancouver on the opposite
shores of Burrard Inlet.

When the church was
constructed it had a single
spire. A second one was

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North Shore landmark, the
twin spires dominating the
Vancouver harbour and
waterfront. It is’ the only
early Mission Church
building that has survived in
the Lower Mainland,
Matin Segger, ar-
chitectural historian at the
University of Victoria and
Heritage Canada governor
for B.C. and the Yukon, says
of St. Paul's: “Surely this

must be Vancouver's most
Singular and significant
monument — a landmark,
still impressive, on the
harbourscape since 1884. As
a completely Gothic style
Roman Catholic church
type. I believe it remains
unique in British Columbia
where this denomination
consciously selected
Romanesque elements to
differentiate their structures
from the Church of England,
and emphasize the Roman
tradition.”

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The church, located in the
400 block of West Esplanade
Street in North Vancouver,
continues to serve its
Mission Indian Reserve
congregation which, with

help from the Save St. Paul's.

committee already has
commitments approaching

$200,000 for the building's
restoration.

The Squamish Indian
Band Council andthe
Catholic Archdiocese each
have committed $50,000 to
the fund. and a_ similar

00,000 needed to a save St. Paul's

amount is expected from the
B.C. Heritage Trust.. An
additional $50,000 has been
committed from other
sources, including the City
of North Vancouver, some
Lower Mainland foundations
and a donor who has made a
special contribution to cover

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ministrative costs.

The committee secks an
additional $100,000 for

continuing maintenance,
bringing the over-all fund
objective to $500,000.

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