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THE revitalization of Lower Lonsdale is already under way at the corner of Lonsdale and Esplanade where the old makes way for the new Syndicate Block.

EMBEDDED in the

pavement on the east

sidewalk, not long

before it curves gently

around heavy metal boat

moorings at the foot of

Lonsdale, is a row of

diagonal red bricks bisecting the walkway.
Next to the row of bricks is a plaque. In beavy embossed metal

script it reads “Shoreline 1905.~ This was the place where land

and ocean met. That was before the increase in land speculation

(because of the expected railroad), and before the waterfront was
extended with All and piling to support the ferry landing. Then

DOING IT RIGHT.” -.:
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1790 Marine Or. North Van 987-8006

News special report

See page 3 for analyses of core issues
NVC’s Lower Lonsdale area.

Clarence Wallace moved his shipyard to the site, and Lower
Lonsdale began to boom.

“Look at that picture,” said North Vancouver Museum) and
Archives director Robin Inglis.

He pointed to
the muscum., In it, a crowd of people is packed behind a wate wait
ing to board a ferry, a street car coils down the incline of Lonsdale
toward the water, people are crossing in front and bebind it.

“There was a vibrancy in North Vancouver ... look at the poo

Function is
the key for

winter wear

heto, foggy with age, hanging on the wall of

Celebrations,
weddings and
anniversaries

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ple walking about. ft was a real dynamic ~ the ferries, the railway,
the trofleys. This was the crossroads of the North Shore. [e's not

ly like that anymore is it? People come into that bus tunnel and
it’s kind of depressi

It’s a common retrain about Lower Lonsdale. It died out after
the Second World War. The area's industrial focus moved to other
parts of the port, the streetcars rolled to a final silent stop in 1947,
and the fernes no Jonger crossed the inlet in 1958 —- rhere was
now a bridge

In the ’SOs, Lonsdale Quay and Wat
a project to revitalize Lower Lonsdale.

Although bright, attractive and popular, the Quay isn’t the
draw locals were hoping for. Tourists and residents alike walk out
the north esit from the Quay only to discover -~ nothing, except
asteep hill with small isolated shops thar don't promise much.

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