2 - Sunday. July tt, 1999 — North Shore News

Kennedy Passes aWay

Katharine Hamer
Contributing Writer

WEST Vancouver resi-
dent Warnett Kenneds,
a former Vancouver
City councillor, passed
away July 2.

He was 88.

Asa councillor berween
1975-1985, Ken ;
the centre of
about land development just
as the city was S.ginning to
grow.

He clashes frequency
with his socialist colleague,
fellow Vane City coun-
cillor Harry Rankin.

“We were poles apart
politically,” said Rankin.

“He was very pro-devel-
opment — he was involved
in dise nssions about a third
crossing (the proposed tun-
nel ween Vancouver and
the North Shore), and water-
fronr freeways.

“Bur you know, there's a

g: mine cnemics grow

Ee did his best for the
from his point of view,

1 did my best. ft allowed

the public to make choices.
It’s not like now up there (at
Vancouver City hall), where

WARNETT Kennedy
shaped area as architect.

it’s all homogenized pap.”
Rankin admits thac while

the two men “tore iway at

each other” in council, they

frequently enjoyed cups of

coftee together afterwar
Born in

Scotland, in 1911,

arnived in Vancouver in a

following The Festival of
Britain, where he was head of

industry and di

Kennedy
co the city on holiday, bur
was so taken with Vancouver
that he became a permanent
resident,

“He loved British
Columbia,” said) Kennedy's
wife Joan. “He: loved

v. ancouver. In tact when he

shed his tune in council,

¢ Was asked te take a post

tien as deputy auinister in
Orrawa with the Liberal. He
thought about it, bat he
turned it down, because he
couldn't bear to feave British
Columbia.”

“He always used te say,
‘int this a woadertul place
tu fise??" said Jean. -Th
what he loved, the whole
landscape of the place. [only
have to think of Warnett and
[remember his carnest teel-
ings for everything.”

Kennedy
of Annacis . the first
planned industrial communi-
ty in the country

He was the original plan-
ner for Whistler Village, and
founder and ¢ of the
Architectural Institute.

Another of his architec:
tural projects was The
Crescent on Argyle Avenue.
It was the first high
West Vancouver.

Kennedy favoured — this
quote from a medieval
ftalian architect: “A city is
for the satety and conve-
nience of its citizens, and the

surprise and delight of

strangers.”

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