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Page 4 The West Vancouver Museum and Historical Society Dear Editor: Enclosed is a brief outline of some of the contributions made by Municipal Engineer Ed Richardson. I would appreciate your printing this in His-tory-onics. Ed and his wife May, both in their eighties, spend their summers fly fishing in numerous B.C. lakes. G. E. Baynes V/est Vancouver RESOURCEFUL ED RICHARDSON Before 1944, the zoning of West Vancouver was like North Vancouver. We were destined to have a ribbon development of commercial buildings on Mathers. Marine Drive would be lined with fast food outlets and car lots from the Cap-ilano to Horseshoe Bay. It was only through the ability and dedication of Mr. Roy Pidgeon, Claire Downing and others on the Planning Commission that commercial uses were restricted to Marine between 13th & 18th and 24th to 25th. This effort was instigated by Municipal Engineer Ed Richardson and was supported by Reeve Pat Field. Ed Richardson thought that Marine should be widened between 13th & 14th and 24th to 25th. He prepared a document with the agreement that the Municipality would install curbs, gutter and sidewalk if the owner would give ten feet of frontage. He was sucessful in the 1300 block. I obtained the signatures of all the owners from 24th to 25th excepting Mrs. Van Luven. (On the north side, one has to avoid the raised brickwork - a memorial to a lady who owned a very exclusive interior decorating establishment). Mrs. Van Luven had the contract for the interior decorations at Government House. This Royal Appointment was more important to her than a simple street widening. In 1943, Inglewood Avenue ran through the Pauline Johnson School grounds. This was a concern to Ed Richardson as it bisected the playground. Appeals to Council to change this brought no results. Early one morning Richardson had his crew block the east end with a large log, and bulldoze a new road to the north around the school ground. This resourceful Municipal Engineer deserves recognition for his vision of West Vancouver. JU Dear Editor:- We have claim on part of the Lawson House. We moved over to West Vancouver in 1930 and took over the Elgar house at 1590 Gordon. Being an avid gardener I immediately started to dig, so naturally ran into West Vancouver's self-sown crops ... rocks. I just put them into tidy piles near 16th Street. One day a chap stopped to chat, when I was exercising my digging arm and asked if I needed those stones. It appeared that he was busy putting in a foundation of a stone house over on 17th Street and was looking for "ammo". He v;as welcomed with open arms as it saved a lot of hard work. I have no guarantee that the stones are in the foundation, but I was told so. Ted Sewell West Vancouver