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IT SEEMED LIKE A SWELL IDEA AT THE TIME Remember that piece in the May newsletter, the one in which we asked you to "send in your name, the address of your first residence in West Vancouver, the year in which you arrived and the names of your immediate neighbours"? We asked that you be BRIEF but also specific about the neighbours .... "on our east; to the south, across the lane" etc. We really thought you'd have fun with it and went so far as to say so. Well, apparently there were a whole lot more fun things to do during the past summer than putting pen to paper. For rising to the occasion, however, we'd like to thank Peter Hall, Joan (Luke) Skipper and Charmaine (Gruchy) Lowden for their responses which not only provided the Archives with useful information but interesting reading to boot. Here's a sample of what we're after My parents, Jim and Mary Edington, came to West Van somewhere around 1912 and at first lived in a tent before building the family house at 1613 Duchess Avenue on the northwest corner of 16th and Duchess. I was born in 1926 and my earliest recollections of the neighbourhood probably start around the mid-thirties. Across the lane to the north of us was the MacAulay Family, the widowed Mrs. Clarice Leola with sons Alex (Mac), Ronald and Jack. Their house fronted onto Esquimalt, across from the Municipal Hall. The house to the west of ours had a series of occupants over the years. The first I can remember were the Neville-Smiths but no details of them come to mind. The two lots directly south across Duchess were vacant. The Yates Family lived kitty-corner to us on the south-east corner of the intersection with the house facing onto plumber and the family, as I recall, were daughters Bea, Kathy and Mary and I believe a son named Les. The house situated on the north-east corner (also facing onto 16th) was occupied by an eldery couple, Mr. and Mrs. George Bryan. They lived in a ground floor suite while upstairs was Mrs. Olive Brown with children Carol and Ian (not the Ian Brown who died in his teen years and whose parents established an annual avjard in his memory). The property directly north of the Bryans was vacant. Mary Edington with daughter Mary and unidentified gentleman 16th Street. Mr. Yates was a 4'^ so LQHij.. IT-~S BEEH ijQQD TO KNOW YOU j'* On a foggy day in London town^ at the University College London, University of London ^ the footsteps that you hear down the hall will be those of our Laura. Yes, our Archivist, Laura Millar Coles, is off to London, England in December to begin her studies for a Ph.D. in Archive Studies. She'll be studying the development of archives in Canada, the relationship between museums and archives, and the roles of community heritage institutions in Canada. Research will keep Laura abroad from January to June and October to December in 1993. July and August will find her back on home turf teaching archival studies at the University of British Columbia. We all join together in wishing Laura bon voyage and bonne chance! ...Til we meet again. ^ Page 5