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6. As the ferry passes under Lions Gate Bridge, the modem observer can look to the right at the mouth of the Capilano River, and if he checks against the map given, can become a bit confused. The map shows two outlets and he can only see one. Man is, of course, responsible. Until the late 1940's, the river mouth turned eastward toward Lions Gate Bridge. This caused silting along the north shore at the entrance to the Narrows, and to lessen if not prevent this, a new channel turning westward was dredged, and the rip-rap dyke which we can see today was constructed. The dredging of the new channel co-incided with the demise of the old light house and its attendant dwelling at the mouth of the river. Mr. Harris and his family were the first to keep the light. His daughter, Dorothy, married Frank Harrop, and they lived in West Vancouver for many years. Mr Dickinson later became the lightkeeper. With the end of the light, ship traffic was supeirvised from a station high on the centre span of the bridge. Now the operators are more safely esconced on the top floor of the Black Tower. 7. Just west of the present river mouth is what present day residents know as the duck pond in Arabelside Park. In the early days, and indeed up until the 193Q's, this was known as "the slough". Early photographs show an entrance to the slough from the sea. Pioneer residents used to moor their rowboats and canoes in the slough. An incident in 1915 indicates the size of the slough. Falling ferry revenues in that year persuaded the Municipal Council to take "No. 5 " out of service. The boat was taken into the slough floated onto a cradle and left there for the winter months. 10 What is now Ambleside was, until 1930, called East Beach. In 1914, the land had been subdivided into seventeen 33 foot lots, and in time summer cottages or tents had been erected on the lots. In 1930, at the suggestion of ’^.eeve Joe Leyland, the name was changed to Ambleside Beach and the gradual development of the area as a park was begun. At the foot of 14 Street little remains of the wharf and float where the Municipal Ferries docked. But the two storey building at the water's edge is the original ferry office and waiting room built .in 1913. Following V/orld War I, the Board Room on the upper floor was rented to the Great War Veterans Association and was the fore-runner of the Canadian Legion Hall. The entire building is now the office of the Municipal Bus Company. The larger building to the east of the old ferry office is an amalgam of two historic buildings. The original ferry freight shed and the original Ambleside Hall have been combined to form the garage and service centre for the bus fleet. Ambleside Hall had been put up as a supply depot for materials used in the construction of the P.G.E. Railway in 1913-14. The next point of interest is the foot of 17 Street. The first ferries docked here at the Dominion Government Wharf from 1909 to 1913. To the west of the present pier, where the children's swings are now located, once stood John lawson's home, on the waterfront just east of Hollyburn Creek. The building still stands on the west side of the creek but it has been remodelled past recognition. Mr. Lav^'-.on's barn and stable, also remodelled still stand on the north side of Beiievue Avenue, near the Post Office. It has become the Masonic Hall.