Cheers for 75 Years

Opening credits (00:00:01); voice-over begins, with historical photographs and contemporary video footage, introduce District of West Vancouver’s 75th Anniversary (00:00:09); title (00:00:33); community members and groups wish West Vancouver a happy birthday on camera (00:01:30); voice-over, Capilano River, Coho Festival, Ambleside Park, interviewee describes leisure activities on-camera (00:02:26); voice-over, official insignia design by Albert Bibbs, presentation of coat of arms in 1987(00:04:35); interviewee describes seasonal changes, voice-over describes summer and winter activities, Seawall, Cypress Bowl, interviewees (00:05:15); voice-over, Point Atkinson and Lighthouse Park, Sandy Cove, Gleneagles Public Golf Course, Seniors’ Activity Centre, interviewee describes Seniors’ Centre activities (00:07:16); voice-over, West Vancouver Memorial Library, interviewee describes pleasures of reading (00:09:00); voice-over, Memorial Garden, private gardens, interviewee describes pleasures of gardening, 75th Anniversary floral insignia garden at Taylor Way Boulevard (00:09:21); John Lawson Park; history of West Vancouver(00:10:52); John Lawson, first ferry services, Gertrude Lawson House; historic sites; Inglewood High School, now YMCA; Peppi’s Restaurant, formerly the Clachan; Ambleside Drugs, formerly Gemmill’s Drug Store; Klee Wyck, now West Vancouver Community Arts Council; St. Francis-in-the-Wood Anglican Church; Capilano Cemetery; Chief Joe Capilano; Chief Mathias Joe; development of British Properties, Alfred James Towle Taylor, Guinness family, Reeve J. B. Leyland (00:13:12); aerial view of British Properties; Capilano Golf and Country Club; Hollyburn Country Club; Hollyburn Country Club; Federation Cup Women’s Tennis Tournament; contemporary sports and leisure (00:15:08); skiing on Hollyburn and Cypress Bowl Park; diving at Whytecliff Park; Marine Days Festival, Dundarave Pier; Fishermen’s Cove; Horseshoe Bay (18:00); Sewell’s Marina, Dan Sewell, power-boating; Horseshoe Bay Day; BC Government Ferries; changes in transportation (00:20:34); Lions Gate Bridge; Pacific Great Eastern Railway; Blue Buses; Royal Hudson; Community Day Parade; West Vancouver Police and Fire Departments; business districts (00:24:10), Ambleside, Caulfeild, Dundarave, Park Royal; Canada Day Celebrations at the Municipal Hall (00:26:48); student art exhibition, “West Vancouver: My Home,” interviewees describe student involvement in anniversary (00:28:36); West Vancouver Community Day (00:29:50); Ambleside Carol Ships (00:31:47); closing credits (00:33:30).