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A BUILDING AS THE OF A REGION Cont. from "History-onics" Volume 6, Numbers 1 and 2 CHANGES IN A NAME An advertisement in the WEST VAN COURIER, dated 1 October 1919, announced dances to be held in Dundarave Hall during the week with a usual "big time" on Saturday. The change to Dundarave may indicate a waning interest in the Conservative Party, or an increased feeling of community spirit, or both. Certainly, the Conservative Club did not act on its option to purchase, for in 1922, Helen Mundell signed an agreement to purchase and, in 1924, had the deed to the property. In the latter year she also bought the lot to the east - Lot 15. In 1928, Mr. Carl A. Ray purchased both properties from her. He was to be active in renting the Hall - for concerts, horticultural exhibitions, public meetings, federal, provincial and municipal elections, ratepayers' meetings and badminton. That the West Vancouver Badminton Club used the building is a bit of a puzzle. Present construction shows the side walls tied by rods at intervals across the hall. If they were always present, surely they would have hindered the flight of the bird. Perhaps a reader has an answer. In 1946, there were two name changes. The first was slight in that dances were being advertised for Friday and Saturday night at the "Dundarave Night Club". This was March, 1946. By mid-summer of that year a new management had changed the name to "The Palms". Now, in a room with painted palms on the walls and stars on the ceiling dinner dances were held Wednesday and Saturday evenings; wedding receptions by reservation; and, in 1948, May Queen Maureen McKeown's banquet. BLOCK 23, LOT 15 Back in 1933, Mr. Ray had sold Lot 15 to Helen Frances Hunter. She had been the owner-operator of Cliff House when Whytecliff Park was Union Steamship Property. Mrs. Hunter built a small cottage on Lot 15 for use as an old country style tea house. About 1946, she sold to the Van Luvens, Interior Decorating and Antiques. The Van Luvens sub-let the rear of the building as office space, one of the tenants being Hy Colville, whose firm, Hollybum Aerial Trams, ran a ski lift up Hollyburn. THE HALL AND THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH By 1952, the Palms Cabaret ceased to operate. A new tenant was quickly found in the West Vancouver Presbyterian Church. Under the Church Exemption By-Law, any building owned by a church and used solely for religious purposes is exempt from municipal taxes. By November 1952, the Church must have taken steps to purchase the building inasmuch as it approached council for tax exemption and had its request approved. The Church made some modificatins to the face of the building. Mr. James Bissett, an architect and member of the congregation, designed and supervised the construction of a tower type entrance from the sidewalk to the first floor level. The Presbyterian congregation was to use the building until a new church could be built. In 1965, on the site of the Cottage Grocery and Tea Room at 29th Street and Marine Drive, a splendid church was erected and the Hall at Dundarave was vacated.