Shore residents and North
Vancouver Museum director
Bill Baker have salvaged

_ hundreds of old bottles from
earth excavated from the
‘building site, located on
Esplanade between the
ICBC and B.C. Rail
buildings.

One of them is Pete
“Thompson who scavenged
about 150 bottles from the
site. He started gathering
them when he spotted a few
in the excavated carth that is
being dumped at another
Quay site

Tuesday evening he went
back to the site and picked
through the area, picking
out the 150 bottles.

“I just picked them up off
the surface,” Thompson
said. “It makes you wonder
what's underneath.”

The bottles piqued
Thompson's interest cnough
to prompt him to spend half
a day trying to find somconc
else interested in in-
vestigating and possibly pro-
tecting the site.

’ He spoke with the focal
museum, the Vancouver
museum, the UBC muscum
of anthropology and the pro-
vincial muscum of an-
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PETE THOMPSON

pod up 150 bottles from dirt excavated from an early
Lonsdale Quay site is belleved to have been used as a landilill area in the 1920s.

North Shore dump this week. The

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safety, risk fines or a

if convicted.

But whether charges are
actually laid depends on just
where in District the timber
falling took place. *

According to District's
latest rezoning bylaw, which

. received third reading Mon-

‘day, prosecution awaits
those who saw timber stands
on lands parceled as park,
recreation and open (PRO)
space.

In essence, District’s move
to prohibit logging in PRO
zones is the result of Grouse
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