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the time Taylor had been

ed in projects including’

Molly Varden Mine in B.C.,
itish Empire Building in
ork and the Earls Court
ition building in London.

“West Vancouver land
powas most appealing,
931 the municipality
4¢ miore than a small con-
ration ef vacation homes.
Depression was ott.

uments were courting

ts. About 4,000 acres of
xtending from the east-
pundary of an area now
nas the British Properties
ne bluff overlooking
shoe Bay had ownership
ed “ta.the municipatity.
emus owners didn’t come
with the taxes due.
tish Pacific Properties
75,060 for the land and
greed to spend a million
to build a subdivision
Capilano Golf. Course.
¢ initial Guinness interest
ish Pacific Properties
d three brothers, Lord
» Lord ‘Moyne’ and the
mest Guinness.
Iveagh was of the

‘of the family that, had...

in the Guinness brew-

rd Moyne, an MP and *~
out. was revisited after. the

presenting, the

government was assassi-
in-Cairo‘in 1944. Finch.,
ec know .much: about. .

“completed by

Ernest Guinness except that he
did own a four-masted schooner
named the Fantome. It had a
crew of 34.

Back to the deal: a golf —

course and subdivision and a
kingly quantity of prime land
was dandy, yet a piece of the
puzzle remained missing. Build
itand they will come just didn’t
work on the North Share.
There was the smal! question of
crossing Burrard Inlet.

Work on a privately financed
$6 million toil bridge, the Lions
Gate Bridge, began in 1936 and
ended in 1938. The project
included the construction of the
causeway through Stanley Park
and Taylor Way to the British
Properties. The bridge was otti-
cially opened by King George
VI and Queen Elizabeth in
1939, The company eventually
spent $2 million to design the
golf course and, the British
Properties, originally known as
Capifane Estares. The 450-lot
(1 1/4 acres each) subdivision
was designed by the Olmsted
brothers, landscape architects
who designed Central Park in
New York City and the grounds

~ of the White House.

' The-golf course design was
» Stanley
Thompson of Toronto.

The British Properties lay-

Secend World War. More roads

Were putin and smaller lots were
established. The area was clear

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Sunday, July 28, 1996 - North Shora News - Special Supplement - ©

NEWS photo Cindy Geodman

AVIEW FROM THE HILL — The sweeping sight of the Lions Gate Bridge and downtown Vancouver is just one
of many reasons to buy a home in the British Properties in West Vancouver. ; we

cur of trees. In the carly 1950s
you could buyalotin the British
Properties for $2,000 to
$5,000. In 1950 the company
pioneered shopping centre
development in Canada with
the construction of Park Royal
shopping centre. In 1963 the

mall was extended with con-
- struction of the south mail. The

Kapilano 100 office tower was
built in 1974. British Pacific

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Properties continues to work
from the location,

In 1954 the company sold
the Lions Gate Bridge to the
province. In 1955 the Capilane
Golf Course was bought by the
club members. In 1956 the
Guinness families with interests
in British Pacific Properties
went their separate ways. The
son and daughter of the firse
Lord Moyne, Lord Moyne and

Lady Normanby, got the land
and the shopping centre. The
families of Lord Iveagh and

Hon. Ernest Guinness took on ~

the Guinness interests in Alberta
and property held in Vancouver,
such as the Marine Building.

In 1986, the year of Expo 86 |

in Vancouver, the company
acted ona bright idea developed
by Grace McCarthy and
Guinness’ family lawyer John

Humphries. The family con-

‘ tributed to the lighting, of Lions

Gate Bridge.

In 1990 the mall was sold for
areported $160 million.

Back up on the hill, piece by
piece, the remaining 1,800 acres
of British, Pacific Properties Jand
continue to be. transfarmed,
The destinies of British Pacific
Properties and much of West
Vancouver remain as one, ;

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