Cultural Diversity

A Pxato: Chinese fisher on one of many
wooden side-walks in North Vancouver
circa 1928, He would come around the
neighbourhood twice a week with his
fish for sale, and had done so for years.
Courtesy of the North Vancouver Museum
ond Archives.

‘Then and Now ~
_A North Vancouver
Millennium Project

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_ A café owner from Lebanon, a tailor
from Uganda, a businessman from the
Philippines, a butcher from Iran, and
a merchant banker from Hong Kong.
These are but a few examples of the
thousands of immigrants from overseas

“who now make North Vancouver their

- home or place of business.

Their stories, and those of

. Many others, are about

* to be-come the focus
of an intriguing new

’ publication about cul-
tural diversity in the

-. City of North Vancouver.

The publication is a joint project

of the North Shore Multicultura! Society,

the North Vancouver Museum and

Archives and the City. It is scheduled

for release in mid-November. Funding

for the project has been provided by
‘~ the province's Millennium Community

Spirit Grant Programme.

According to the project's coordinator,
Warren Sommer, North Vancouver has
lang been home to people with a wide
range of cultural backgrounds. “The
area now encompassed by the three
North Shore municipalities was home
to various bands of the Coast Salish
First Nations people for thousands of
years prior ta its being sited by British
and Spanish explorers in the late 18th
century,” he said.

Non-Native settlement began with the
opening of the Moodyville Sawmill in
1862. “Sawmill operator Sewell Moody
was born in the United States,” Sommer
said. “In time, his labour force, and
those of the other North Vancouver
milis included Eastern Canadian,
European, Chinese, Punjabi, and
Native workers.” North Vancouver
also attracted a variety of business
people, even in its earliest years.
Chinese laundryman and grocer Lim
Gong opened his first North Vancouver
business in about 1900. The Japanese
Yada family initiated their grocery
business on Lower Lonsdale in 1913.
Swedish-born hotelier Peter Larso:
opened his North Vancouver Hotel in
1902 while William Irwin, came to
North Vancouver from freland in 1905,
and became a successful realtor,
politician, and community worker.

More recently, North Vancouver has
become home to people from
many other countries, A
1940's list of workers at
the Burrard Dry Dock
records the names of
people from 50 different
countries, Today the list is
even longer.

. If you have come to the City of
North Vancouver from another country,
or if you know someone who has and
who may. have an interesting story to
tell about how or why they came to
Canada, please contact Warren Sommer
at 888-0017.

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City Click Tricks

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Vancouver website today! Here
are just a few things you can
do at www.cnv.org -

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* Pay a Parking Ticket.

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charges,

. © Get a copy of the Social Plan,

Community Profile or the Official _
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And you can purchase a copy of the
City’s Cookbook - just in time for
dinner! It's a yummy collection of
recipes from afi of your favourite
City staff members.

Did You Know?

* It is a parking ticket violation to be
parked within three metres of a lane.
© If there is a parking time limit, it is an
offence to move your car to another

location in the same block.

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