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A$ Pxote: Archival shot #197 of Lower Lonsdale circa 1917.
Courtesy of the North Vancouver Museum and Archives.

Moodyville is East
of Lower Lonsdale

White many people think Lower Lonsdale
and Mocdyville are interchangeable,
Moodyville was east of Lower Lonsdale
near where the grain elevators are
today. Moodyville was the first non-First
Nations village on the North Shore. His-

-torians say they feel strongly that Lower

Lonsdale not be called Moodyville. “It is

“geographicaily and historically incorrect ,

to call’ Lower Lonsdale Moodyville," said
June Thompson, Assistant Archivist for
the North Vancouver Museum and
Archives. While Lower Lonsdale is under-
going major development these days,

Moodyville is pretty much just a page or
two in the history books. it wasn't always
that way. The town site of Moodyville
originated with a sawmill built by one of
the first North Shore settlers in the early
1860s. The mill was near bankruptcy
just a few years after it was built. That's
when Sewell Prescott Moody, an Ameri-
can from Maine, bought it and returned
the sawmill te profitability selling raw
fumber all over the world. He died at sea
in 1875 and the town that grew around

~ the mill took his name. In honour of
Moodyville, the City will be changing the
name of the Low Level Road to Moody-
ville Road. Cominemorative plaques wilt
also be established in the area.

Streeter:

“The City is looking for a new
name for Lower Lonsdaic. What
do you think the area should
he called?”

‘I like Coatesville.
t remember Charlie Cates
and his wife Currie.
. They used to go
m te my church,”

“How about
Lonsdale Quay?"

‘I think thot it shovid be
named after the Cates
family, They've been a
big port of North
Vancouver. | went
to scaool with
the Cates Kids”
Beverly Bonnactiy a

Lonsdale Landing.
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Mathew Cran

Help Us Rename Lower Lonsdaie

Part of the City’s plan to revitalize Lower Lonsdale includes a new name. The Lower Lonsdale project ~ as it is currently known
= encompasses the land between: (from south to north) the Waterfront and Victoria Park, and d (from east to west) Forbes and

" St. Davids. Check the box beside the name you like best or suggest one of your own. °

Cates Landing

Esplanade

tonsdale Landing

Lonsdale Slopes

Lower Lonsdale

Quayside

South Lonsdale

Your suggestion

Your Name:
Address:

Postal Code:

Telephone:

© North Vancouver Resident
QO North Vancouver Business

“Moodyville” hasn't been suggested as it represents an entirely different geographic location with-
in the City and it is to be recognized through commemorative plaques and other improvements.

Send this complcted form to
Bruce Hawkshaw, City Clerk at

City of NorTH VANCOUVER
141 West 14th Sueet
North Vancouver, B.C, V7M 1H9

Fax: 990-4202 Email: ohawkshaw@cnv.org

You can alsa cast your new name vote at
www.cnv.org Deadline for submissions
is December 31, 2000.

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