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finger power.. You had to use
extra light weight paper and
extra light weight carbon,
says our local expert Mrs.
Jamison. “The last copy
would be fuzzy, but it sure
beat-doing them again.”

The Clerk’s office looks.
after ‘all the. records’ of the. -

* "municipality, is responsible
for the. minutes of council
; meetings, and generally
_ Serves” as ‘secretary to the
council, as well as main-

taining” the voters’ list. “In .

“our case we also happened
to operate the cemetery fora

-mumber.” of. years;” Mrs.
Jamison adds.

2 = Proof-reading the voters’
list for. accuracy was time-
consuming but afforded
‘ opportunities for comic
relief.. One person would
réad out the names while the

other. would check. Rather  §

than spelling out names with
different spelling; the reader
-. —would—say,---for---example,
either “Ste-ven” or “Step-
hen’

And in those days, only
property owners could vote,
but for a $5 fee, one could
obtain limited voting
‘privileges.:dn that case the
reader would call out, “Bold
face Step-hen”. “We'd get
very giggly over that,” she
says.

Other humorous
moments, depending on
your mood, concerned the
proximity of the police
department, which was in
the . basement. Not in-
frequently a person held in
custody would beat on the

clanging, says Mrs. Jamison,
would “vibrate through the
whole building”.

Her family had a farm
approximately where

- Woodwards, ‘Park : Royal i is.
. now, and. they. kept a lot of.

goats, pigs, a cow, chickens,
and some rabbits.

‘There was heavy. forest to
10th: Street, -bush. to. Keith
Road, and very few

neighbors. A little general
‘store stood on_ the corner
with a fox farm behind ~ a.
mink farm was farther. up.
“Everyone had a garden and
-everyone: had chickens,” ‘she

says smiling.

vast -
documentation, ;

- establishment of an archives

‘new Cana

. a dow know
. where else to turn. :
The. -Clerk’s ‘ office has

records. of - the . “minutes* of
eouncil _ right. back: to. 1912 °

_when: West Vancouver was.

incorporated
municipality,
written indices for cross-
reference, as well as
- assessment rolls, water rolls,
tax rolls....“It’s surprising
“how often you do go back to |
the old. records and. check,
for instance, how a certain
property has changed | hands
. over the. years.” Me

asa

Referring -again .to “the
‘collection of
Mrs.
Jamison : says, “When | you |

oo need them, they’ re there.”

“There is a: real need for
assembling all these records
. Into an organized system and
she ‘considers the

_with - hand- |

‘particular

“She! has seen ° a “tot of!
mayors and -‘eouncils. come.

Deputy
: Municipal - ‘Clerk. worked.

and go’'and as

“closely with them. What is it

like’ working with different

mayors and councils?"

_ “Ifyou know your job, the
‘mayor. and
council doesn’t make that

‘much difference, other than -

from a personal point of
‘view --. whether or not: you
enjoy talking to them or
‘working with them.

“You are _ expected to
know what you're talking
about, and are expected to
help them whatever way you

. can. You have to guide them

as well as take direction
from them,” she says..

know what you're talking
“about.”

It was hard for cher. to

decide to retire, but there is
virtually endless

activities she wants to devote |

more time

to,

YOU are expected. real

list---of. .
including *.

_ gardening, travelling, rock-

-:hounding,. sewing, _ siiver-
‘ smithing, and somewhere, i in
-all of this,. relaxing’ ~ if she
can find the time. Another
_ deciding factor was that she
“wanted to spend more time
with her husband John, who
had been “rattling - ‘around
the. house” since - his
retirement | two -years
: previously.

“<” “After all is s said and done,
‘the secret to enjoying your
_job, according to Jean
. Jamison, is. simple: “When
‘you start in, you may not
know a thing about it, but
the more you dig in and the
more you learn about it, the
more interesting it
becomes.”

And that's just what she
dia

an urgent issue. -
When Mrs. Jamison
started working there, City
chicks 8 had Hall was small and,
° _. “presumably, informal, and
“Now, of course,. if West Van boasted a mere

somebody gets 4 rooster, we .
are inundated with com-
plaints because they make
too much noise!”

What kinds of questions

does the public address to
City Hall?

After - some
deliberation, Mrs. Jamison
replies, “Anything”.

She has been asked: “How |
to get a skunk out of a
garbage can... how to cook”
venison... ve been asked
about swarming bees and pet

People get upset about
their neighbors’ trees or their
neighbors’ dogs. Older
people call because they

need someone to talk to and |

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