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dollar there will put some gas in the tanks or offset telephone disconnection and reconnection service charges, for example. Let's make a deal. We'll spring for the coffee and cookies at the next meeting if you'll donate to our DISPLACEMENT DISBURSMENT FUND. Report on the Archives The Archives of the West Vancouver Museum and Historical Society has been very busy this spring. Our greatest accomplishment is the completion of the arrangement of the Joseph Bentley Leyland Papers. A 200+ page finding aid, describing the contents of each box of paper and identifying important subjects and people, is now available for research use. Anyone interested in the history of West Vancouver, particularly during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, will find a wealth of information in the Ley land Papers. We are spending the rest of the spring processing our other "backlogs" of photographs, papers and other archival records. Some of our newest acquisitions in the archives include: cookbooks from World War II, photographs of camping in West Vancouver in 1922, school pictures from Pauline Johnson School in the 1920s and 1930s, blueprints for the revitalization of Horseshoe Bay in 1986, copies of Jim McCarthy's speech to the Society in January 1989 and photographs and newsclippings about Gertrude Lawson and the Lawson family from the 1800s to 1987. In Septonber, we will begin two major projects: detailed arrangement and description of all records relating to May Days in West Vancouver and Schools in West Vancouver. Anyone interested in contributing documents, photographs or memorabilia about these subjects or interested in helping us identify people, sort photographs or file documents is welcome to join our happy group! Currently, we are in particular need of someone willing to type catalogue cards to add to our archival files â€" come out and give your fingers a workout! On behalf of the West Vancouver Museum and Historical Society, we would like to thank the following people whose donated or loaned items were processed in March and April 1989: Hugh Addison, Gordon Ballentine, Mrs. G. Behm, Ronald Bone, Katherine Dickinson, Agnes Folinsbee, Mrs. R. Johns, Hugh Johnston, Jack Ley-land, Jim McCarthy, Len Ormiston, Dorothy Slattery, Lucy Smith, W.E. Sones and Effie Sutherland. We would also like to thank Margaret Whiff in for her excellent work typing the transcript of the taped interview of "The Indians in Early West Vancouver". Volunteers week fell in April this year, and the hard-working volunteers in the Archives certainly deserve to be thanked for all their efforts. Jo Benson has been filing our catalogue cards diligently this spring and Dorothy (Topsy) Nelson is responsible for typing nearly every card in our files!!! Joan Skipper joins us every week to process archival material and Mary Chapman manages the workroom magnificently coming to the archives three days a week without fail! Without the volunteers, the archives would never be as well organized as it is. Laura Coles and Mary Chapman can be thanked for uncovering the following gem from amongst the Leyland Papers. The composition has been abridged somewhat -mostly in punctuation and by pruning the proliferous comma, about a paragraph of space has been saved. It isn't known exactly when Martha Louise Black wrote her beguiling essay but from her book, "My Ninety Years", we can establish that the Blacks lived in the Vancouver area between the years 1919 and 1921. They had "bought a small cottage on the picturesque north shore of Burrard Inlet" (just a