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There's still quite a few of them around - the Stainsby babies. Some are into their seventies now but the youngest can't be under 54. For 54 years ago this month, West Vancvouver's pioneer doctor passed away and the newborn thereafter became Bayfield babies, Nash, Miller or Therrien babies or babies delivered by North Vancouver doctors, as as they had been before Dr. Fred Stainsby arrived here in 1914. Stainsby babies were an al1-too-limited edition for they frame a time span of a mere 20 years and during those two decades, the good doctor was away on a couple of occasions. But I'm getting ahead of my story. Fred Stainsby came to us by way of St. Thomas, Ontario where he was born on June 2nd, 1883. He graduated from the University of Toronto in the Faculty of Medicine in 1911 and served a one year internship at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver. Upon the completion of his internship, he was selected as Health Officer for the G.P.R. and for the following two years lived in Golden, B.C. before coming to West Vancouver as Medical Health Officer. He moved into one of George Wharton's spanking new stores on 14th Street between Argyle and McGowan's Shamrock Tea Room on the waterfront and there he set up his practice, living in quarters at the rear of the building. A story goes around that there was a fire in the adjacent second hand store, a fire that Jim Jefferies, the local butcher up on Marine, espied from the back of his shop. Jim sounded the alarm but all that could be saved was a piano. After the fire. Dr. Stainsby opened up an office above Ambleside Drugs at the corner of 14th and Marine. The fate of the piano is unknown. Dr. Stainsby continued his practice in West Vancouver until 1918 when he left for Anyox to fight the 'flu epidemic. Dr. Frederick Stainsby In 1920, Miss Doris Armstrong Price accompanied her parents from England and arrived on the West Coast to visit her married sister. The Prices booked into the year-old Fortune Cup Inn at Dundarave and six weeks later moved into a house in Vancouver's West End. Doris stayed on at the Inn. The following year on June 2nd, in a ceremony in the United Church on Lulu Island, she and Dr. Fred Stainsby were married and for a short time took up residence back at the Inn while awaiting completion of their new home at 1944 Marine Drive. Years later it would become Red Cross House and then the library site but in the early twenties, it was a lovely residential property sloping down to a natural stream, not flumed, as it is today. In 1924, a daughter, Doris Patricia was born and three years later, a son, Martin Frederick. Towards the end of 1927, Dr. Stainsby left to take a post graduate course in surgery at the Mayo Bros Clinic followed by further courses at Printys College in Chicago. At the completion of these courses, he headed for San Francisco where he was joined by Doris and the children. The family remained in California for several months in and around the Los Angeles area looking for better opportunities, but the Depression was everywhere. Finally, in August, Dr. Stainsby signed a contract with a company in the Yukon and for the next two