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Explore local museums this summer

A wealth of historical information is housed in the North Shore’s two museums

NOW THAT school is out for
the summer, you might be won-
dering about what to do.

NORTH SHORE
HERITAGE
By Dorothy Foster

One interesting trip might be to
the North Vancouver Museum and
Archives at Presentation House, 333
Chesterfield Ave. in North
Vancouver or to the West
Vancouver museum, newly opened
last weekend in the Gertrude
Lawson house at 680 17th St. in
West Vancouver.

The North Vancouver museum is
participating in “kidsummer” on
July 24 from noon to 4 p.m.

There will be an open house and
special activities for children and
fatnilies, It wiil include model (toy)

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boat building and making replicas of
the Lions Gate Bridge. along with
many other activities.

An early model kitchen stove is
part of the permanent display at
Presentation House.

This cast-iron stove with shiny
nickel detailing is a work of art
itself. The name plate on it shows
that it is called the “Canadian
Maleable Range,” made expressly
for the McClary Manufacturing
Company, London, Ontario.

It was made to burn either coal or
wood and would have heated a good
part of a house. Note the shelves
above the round burners, where a pot
of warming coffee awaits a friendly
veighbor, and the warming ovens
above for biscuits and plates.

This stove was donated to the
museum from the home of one of
North Vancouver District's early
pioneers, Walter Draycott.

His was a most interesting life.
He was born in England in 1883. He
served in the Boer War and cane to
North Vancouver in 1911.

He was a partner in Draycott and
Quirt Taxidermy and Shoe Repair.
In World War I he was a typograph-
er and military sketcher with the
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light
Infantry, and was gassed twice.

He was a Justice of the Peace, a
school trustee, and he took students
on nature hikes. He was a feature
writer for North Vancouver and
Vancouver newspapers and a scien-
tific journalist.

A lifelong bachelor, Draycott
lived for 73 of his 102 years in the
same house in Lynn Valley.

In 1932 he purchased the stove
and used it until 1972. In that same
year, he officially opened North
Vancouver's first museum and
archives.

In 1974 he was awarded the first
Lynn Valley Good Citizen award. In

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THE DRAWING shows a

Canadian Maleable Range (as
depicted cn the name plate).

1978 he wrote an autobiographical
account of his carly days in Lynn
Valley.

A statue of his sits on a park
bench at the corner of Lynn Valley
Road and Mountain Highway.

Many thanks to the museum staff
at Presentation House for the above
information.

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