CAULFEILD COVE formerly known as Skunk Cove] 79 years after Francis Caulfeitd
first fell i in love with it [David L. Hill photo]

By. David L. Hill

Seventy-five years ago a distinctively British
estate was being created on the north shore of
Francis Willim Caulfeild, —
English county gentleman from
Cornwall, and a one-time manager of Lloyds Bank
_ deeply
establishment of a little community with an old
English flavour set amid the rugged natural
beauty of the Pacific Northwest.

Burrard Inlet.

of London, - was

In 1898 Mr. Caulfeild,
the company of his daughter,
arrived in Vancouver, B.C. at
the end of a tour of Canada.
During the typical ‘‘tourist’s
discovery’’- of reater Van-
couver, he chanced upon a
meeting with Captain Cates,
the well-known North Van-
couver pioneer. The captain
took Mr. Caulfeild and his
daugher on a cruise of the
harbour aid surrounding
areas. Upon seeing ‘‘Skunk
Cove’’ (now Caulfeild Cove)
near Lighthouse Park, an
immediate love affair was
sparked. The following year
_Caulfeild purchased ‘the area
from Johr Balfour Ker, who
had acquired the land from
Nils Frolander, the original
owner.

The 56-year-old English-
man was particularly struck
by the rugged beauty and
natural grandeur of the area
and swore that this would
never be destroyed.

H.A. Stone described the
area of Caulfeild Village in
his publication of 1939. ‘‘The
entire district was heavily
timbered, very rocky and
difficult to survey or clear.
The grand old evergreen
trees, the Douglas firs and
cedars abounded, as also did
the spruce, hemlock and
balsam trees, the colourful
arbutus, maples and the
innumerable and beautiful
dogwoods, and _ flowering
shrubs.

“The ground was carpeted
with ferns, Oregon grape and
mosses, together with many
varieties of lilies and wild
flowers. All this bounty of
nature which is still preserv-
ed for us made a veritable
fairy-land, which charmed us

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squares. Instead, it would
use the natural contours to
advantage and preserve and
encourage the use of nature
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thing.to be -defeated.. In
extending this thought he
proclaimed the foreshore a

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Caulfeild took particular
care in the location of roads
and walks in the community.

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