§- Wednesday, June 7, 1989 — Capiizno Chronicle

"home “tells 7% family story

THE LAMBERT house, at 123 East Kensington Rd., is one
of the many heritage homes in the district which has surviv-
ed through the changes that have taken place in North

Vancouver.

The house was the first one built
on that section of Kensington
Road, when the street was graded
but unpaved. It backs on to 116 E.
Carisbrooke, where stands a home
built in 1916 by Jack Loutet for his
mother.

It was built in 1921 by Charles
Henry Lambert, who was born in
Surrey, England. After moving to
Wimbledon to keep a printing and
stationery shop, he married Kate

Elizabeth Milledge and subse-

quently had two daughters, Joane
and Phyllis.

Lambert and his brother-in-law
came to Canada in 1912, travelling
by steamship to Liverpool and
Montreal, then taking the: train
across Canada. Charles Lambert
soon established himself as the
printing superintendent for the
British Columbia Underwriters’
Association at Hastings and Gran-
ville.

One year later, his wife, two

daughters and sister-in-law joined
them in North Vancouver — not
without some misadventure, how-
ever, as the women were misdi-
rected and ended up travelling to
Chicago and Seattle by mistake.

The family first lived at 412
Lyon Place, just off Keith Road,
paying a rent of $5 per month.

The lot on Kensington was pur-
chased a few years later for $125,
and then the work began. His
daughters helped Lambert clear the
site, using a six-foot cross-cut saw
to cut up many of the logs.

The house, which was designed
by Lambert, is a split-level exam-
ple of the vernacular use of the
Craftsman style.

photo Terry Peters

Phyllis Lambert trained as a
teacher at U.B.C., and taught on
Saltspring Island in 1927, but
found that her true vocation lay at
the B.C. Underwriters’ Associa-
tion, where she took on a full-time
position in the Cartography and
Topography Department.

Phyllis, who had a natural flair
for drawing and mathematics,
ended up working 45 years as a
draughtsman.

She is now a Lynn Valley resi-

dent and a member of St. Cle-

ment’s Church, although for many
years the Lamberts’ family church
was St. Martin’s.

After Charles Lambert died on
All Saints’ Day in 1955, the rector

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of St. Martin’s cast his ashes in the
creek which runs under Windsor
Road just west of St. Martin’s.

That creek has since been named
St. Martin’s Creek following a
1985 request to district council by
Roy Pallant.

A brass plate dedicated to the
memory of Charles Henry
Lambert remains in the chance! of
St. Martin’s.

it is. inscribed ‘‘In Memory of
Charles Henry Lambert 1876-1955.
One of God’s Good Men.”

The research for this article was
uadertaken by Roy Pallant, presi-
dent of the North Shore Historical
Society.

THERE’S A lot of history behind many of the heritage homes in North Vancouver, but oftentimes people —
even the home's occupants — aren’t aware of it. The Lambert house, at 123 E. Kensington (ahove) was built in
1921 by Charles Henry Lambert. His daughter today lives in Lynn Valiey.

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