14 ~ Friday, December 18, 1992 - North Shore News

N. Shore pioneer founding
member of outdoor society

NORTH VANCOUVER

last one of its pioneer resi-

dents recently with the pass-
ing of Clarence ‘‘Clary”
Egginton, 94, who came to
North Vancouver from
Leeds, England in 1909 with
his mother and brother
George to join his father,
who was one of B.C. Eiec-
tric’s first employees.

By Penny McDonald
Contributing Writer

A founding member of the
North Shore Fish, Game and
Forest Protective Society, estab-
lished in 1918, Egginton was an
ardent hiker, hunter and angler
and enjoyed fishing the productive
North Shore streams long before
the Lions Gate Bridge was built
and the Cleveland Dam was con-
structed,

Egginton’s favorite fishing
partner, George, served a term as
the club’s treasurer and was one
of the first loggers in the Capilano

the early ‘20s Egginton,
George and some friends built a
small log cabin on the banks of
the Capilano River not far from
where the Upper Levels Highway
bridge is today.

Often he would stay at the
cabin overnight and get up early
in the morning and land a couple
of steelhead in the Keith Road
Pool before catching the ferry to
Vancouver, where he worked at
Hudson Optical as an optician.

To reach the inaccessible pools
of the canyon, Egginton walked
up the old fogging flume and
lowered himself down the sheer

CLARY EGGINTON came to
England in 1909.

cliffs by rope to fish. After the
dam was built, however, he
seldom wet his line. The river just
wasn’t the same.

A love of walking and the out-
doors kept Egginton active all his
life. Up until a few years ago, he
would walk all the way to Park
Royal and back again from his
home on East 19th Street.

Egginton was ‘a talented story-
teHer who captivated everyone
with his tales about the early days
and the historic houses of ‘North
Vancouver.

His interest in history led him
to donate old photographs and ar-
tifacts to the North Vancouver
Museum.

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Photo Penny McDonaid

North Vancouver from Leeds,

ginton’s favorite pastimes. He
propagated begonias in his
backyard greenhouse and grew
many flowers from seed.

In the spring and summer his
colorful flower boxes were the en-
vy of his neighborhood. Roses
were also his specialty.

Egginton died suddenly in Lions
Gate Hospital during a brief bout
with pneumonia in October. He

was interred at the Capilano View - 3

Cemetery overlooking his beloved
Capilano River,

He will be sadly missed by his
surviving sister, nieces and neph-
ews and great-nieces and great-
nephews and many friends, young
and old.

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