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: HERITAGE WEEKEND “was a great idea but it’s got _ to go. It’s too short. Let’s have Heritage Week in future,’ Unless you're in your 20s and

have the use of a skateboard 7. moped, there isn’t a hope of mak-

_. ing it in just two days to » Maplewood Flats and Deep Cove

“and walking North Vancouver's his-.

‘torical past and taking one of the’ ferry rides to help you reconstruct the ‘Port’ s evolution. To’ say nothing

:,of touring Someone's ancient “orchard on Bowen Island and wak- «cing tea in West Vancouver's.’ : Museum. “ AS for the chance to walk through ¢ St. Kilda’s historical path- _ way, I'd never ever heard of St. + Kilda and was longing to make her fequaintance, but what ya gonna do? J So there's nothing. for it but that ‘all those interesting activities must ’. be repeated often enough that we: | finally, all of us North Shore admirers, will have become quite’ familiar wittiall of it. Then we can run our own tours. 7 : a y par sicular prob- “

: ‘Jem lay in ‘the fact that Elder College was hav- ng an open day for °°. choosing fall’ courses, 08s. on the Saturday of Heritage Weekend, but

didn’t want:to miss. ©. 77 he walk that would take us around the beginnings of our town. I'm =

“glad [ went, bersuse I was able to

“get from that wanii a feeling of con- nection with those hard-working.

“people who tame to this place and

“shared their dreams of making a.

decent life — tough and romantic.

awrenching what they: needed from: :.

he sea and the forests and streams. This work would give them all -

an identity and a future and a solid

. base for family life. And they rec-:.

ognized the potential for beauty that .

lay within the North Shore bound-.

aries, too, as demonstrated by the.” ize and frequency of parks early :

- delineated and maintained. : Bs

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So there we were on | Sunday . afternoon gathering at the Museum - with curator John Stuart, who guid- ed us on the Heritage Walk. Ottawa _ Gardens was our first stop, three blocks above the museum, some very handsome dwellings on ‘sur-” prisingly narrow lots. Why would they build that way, when they had the whole hillside? It's possible

66 ...1 was able to get from that walk — a feeling of connection with those hard: working people who came to this’ . place and shared their dreams of

omaking a i decent life..

‘they wanted the assurance of group

protection; after all, there was alot: f land as well as woods still sur- | ~

rounding, Perhaps they wanted their

“neighbors close at hand,

The big homes'on Keith Road

“also didn't have much space. around

them, today’s sign of affluence. That's where we went next, over to

*: Keith's boulevard, stopping first on

“the east side ue the site of the gone-.°

*.but-not-forgotten bandstand, where

we pondered the double row of trees that embraces this section of the

“Dark. Was'a-wrap-around path with ‘the trees joining overhead part of “the original design? Or did they just’

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have an excess of saplings on hand? On the eastern half the other

side of Lonsdale, there's alot of work under way these days.that will give more prominence to the war

monument, but Victoria Park's origi- nal design is still intact, Jolin point- ed out the pattern of the several paths. This part of the park is in my daily view and I'd often wondered idly about those paths that run into one another and stant off arbitrarily, so] was tickled to fearn that if you

were a helicopter pilot you'd be able

to see very casily that they replicat- ed the design of the British flag. © The plantings of the park trees

“included maples which would shoiw

red, supposedly, in the fall, thus fur- ther enhancing. the flag's design, Those landscapers had very li ely imaginations.

It was also amusing when Joha informed us about the deiicate trim on the upper part of the curved — entrance to the Church of Christ Scientist, which faces east adjacent to Keith’ Ss meeting with St. Georges

. Avenue. It's very finely done, a neat small row _of what look like per- fect front teetheand that’s just what theyre called, architecturally speaking, They're “den-

tals”. [love it when: ‘lofiy people like archi-

ed sense of reality, From there we made

our way down to the

city’s beginnings, at the

: waterfront, via St. Georges Avenue, making a couple of detours to

admire what's happening with some handsome cid houses en route. The

one facing south on Filth, just west of St. Georges, has been undergoing “a transformation as the centrepiece ‘to a cluster of apartments: The for- ~midable home has been allowed.to

keep its commanding front garden! now festooned with a gazebo that -,

“fits in very well.’

{t was a great walk we had, fine ishing up down at the waterfront, all

»2_of that area a story of its own,

| PU have to say “to be contin- -

ued". It" ‘S just | what I said; a week- :

end won't cut it:

Ada Leung : Pharmacist

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