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TOM SEWELL 'S HORS E S H 0 E BAY Hugh Addison introduced Tom Sewell saying that the Sewells "had taken an idea and made it v;ork. They have been largely instrumental in building a business knov/n far beyond West Vancouver - an operation to match anything of its kind in Canada". Tom Sewell arrived, in Horseshoe Bay in 1930 and save for a wartime stint in the R.C.A.F., he has always lived, there. The family came from Alberta where his father, Dan, had been a successful building contractor. The Depression scuppered the business and the Sewells headed west to Horseshoe Bay where they bought a piece of property from a Mr. Herb Thorpe. Mr. Thorpe had acquired the land from Colonel Albert VJhyte as payment for clearing some of the Colonel's land. The Colonel, v/ho was a West Vancouver Councillor from 1914 to 1915 and after whom Whytecliff is named, v/as President of a group of speculators called the West Shore and Northern Lands Company Ltd. which o\\zned all of Horseshoe Bay and \>Jhytecliff Park. In the early days, there were tv70 floats just off the end of Pvoyal Avenue. One was operated by Jim Rodgers and the other by Tom Garrow. They were not the greatest of friends. In fact, they detested one another. In a bidding war for ownership of the property, Rodgers won out, remaining in the Bay, v;hile Tom moved. his operation around the point to V7hat is nov7 known as Garrov/ Bay. Horseshoe Bay was at that time a prime summer resort in every sense of the word. A year-round home to a handful; a summer Mecca for many; and a Paradise to fishermen. The Sewells opened, up a totally different aspect of fishing with the introduction of rod and reels, using herring for bait. Tliey v/ere no boat builders, but they learned to build boats. Instead of the usual V-shaped transom row boats, they built theirs U-shaped so that the fishermen could stand up to cast and the boat would remain stable. By 1935, they were using the first air cooled Briggs & Stratton engines in a boat. Stratton, himself, flew in from Milv;aukee and took a cab to Horseshoe Bay to see vdiat Sewells were up to. Sewells used the Briggs & Strattons until 1957 when they went to outboards and by 1959, they were fully on outboards. The famous salmon fishing derby was born in a bucket. Local firemen and policemen, alv/ays enthusiastic fishermen on their days off and v;ith their odd shifts, started putting a dollar in a bucket and at the end of the v/eek, the biggest fish won. Sewells then put up one of their boats as a prize and the Derby v/as off and running. Three major events occurred that changed the v;hole acter of Horseshoe Bay. disposition and char- In 1939, with the outbreak of war, a North Vancouver shipyard was awarded a contract to build Victory ships and the workers moved into Horseshoe Bay and took over the summer cottages making them into permanent homes. Virtually overnight, Horseshoe Bay became a village. In 1944, the Rodgers Family turned all their waterfront holdings over to Municipal Hall for $43,500.00. Tnat property is now the Horseshoe Bay Municipal Park. In 1951, around the corner marching into the Bay came a car ferry and docked on the east side of the Bay. With it, came the announcement that the