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Manh 1995 WESTVANCOUVERHISTORICAL SOCIETY Page 7 COMING EVENTS THURSDAY, MARCH 23 at 7:00 pm WEST VANCOUVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY -ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING - In the Auditorium of the Cedardale Centre, 595 Burley Drive, Sponsorship of this Meeting will be undertaken by: THE ROYAL BANK OF CANADA DATE OF FOLLOWING MEETING: Thursdayy May 25,1995 MAY 6,1995 - SATURDAY 10 AM to 4 PM PORT DAY ‘ NORTH VANCOUVER - PACIFIC MARINE TRAINING CAMPUS At Waterfront Park off Esplanade west of Chesterfield MUSEUM EXHIBIT MAR. 7 TO APR. 13,1995 WEST VANCOUVER MUSEUM & ARCHIVES ^Birds of Prey: An Exhibition of the Owls of Canada* For Details, See WVM&A News on page 10 of this issue WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1995 - 9 AM to 12 NOON HISTORICAL TOUR OF WV CULTURAL FACIUTIES An insiders look at Klee Wick, Ferry Bldg, Silk Purse For Details, See WVM&A News on page 10 of this issue WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22,1995 - 7:30 PM OWL SLIDE PRESENTATION By Kevin Bell, Director of Lynn Canyon Ecology Centre. For Details, See WVM&A News on page 10 of this issue MUSEUM EXHIBIT - OPENS MAY 2,1995 - 7:30 PM WEST VANCOUVER MUSEUM & ARCHIVES *The sporting Life: Summer Recreation in West Vancouver, 1910 - 1950* For Details, See WVM&A News on page 10 of this issue WEDNESDAY, MAY 17,1995 - 7:30 PM WEST VANCOUVER MUSEUM & ARCHIVES SPORTING COSTUME SUDE PRESENTATION By Co-curator and costume historian, Kerri Ward For Details, See WVM&A News on page 10 of this issue HISTORY’ONICS ^ ... IS PRINTED BY Quill Printing Limited 250 The Village Square, 1425 Marine Drive, West Vancouver, B.C. V7T 1B9 922-0611 West Van Hi Grads, '48, '49 & '50 Editor's Note: On November 26,1994 West Van High School Graduates met for a Mini Reunion and Keep-in-Touch Christmas Party at Gleneagles. The event was an unqualified success with everyone enjoying themselves and The Kathleen Kermode Memorial Scholarship fund benefiting substantially. Bob Britton was up from Seattle for the event and we presume the following contribution was in part the result of a great nostalgic evening. Whatever the case, Thanks for the effort Bob! For Info on the WVHS Grads, phone Tom Taylor, 921-9605 WEST VANCOUVER’S FIRST POUND By Bob Britton - WVHS Grad *48. Sometime in the 1940’s, when I was growing up in West Vancouver, an incident arose that illustrates a more relaxed and simpler time. It seems that it was the desire of our elected officials to start regulating the animal population a little more closely than before. Besides it was an undiscovered source of income for the Municipality. Bicycles were also licensed along about that time too. So, starting on the “cheap” they had Public Works outfit one of their pickup trucks with a wire cage in the back to be the first collection vehicle. It was about 3:00 p.m. one Friday afternoon that this truck was seen parked outside of a coffee shop at 14th and Marine. Inside were the two new “Animal Control” men having coffee after a hard day chasing dogs. At about 6:00 p.m. that evening, our mother, Mrs Nora Britton, School Board Member, got a phone call from Dr. Folinsbee, D.V.M., that went something like this - “Will you please come down to my office/hospital (where South Park Royal is today) and pick up “Laddie” (our black and white Border Collie). Your “dumb dog” was caught by the Municipality running loose and I have him in “Jail”. Dr Folinsbee’s office/hospital was the first “Pound”. The very first “round-up” of dogs was in the back of that pickup on that fateful Friday in May, awaiting their trip to Jail, when along came some “Bad Boys” (“Not us” this time) who let the dogs out of the back of the “F^ddy Wagon”: hurrah, hurrah!! All that is, but “Laddie” - no, not our dog - he was going to play by the rules. He reasoned that he had been caught fair and square, so off to Jail he went - the only dog left! Fifteen other dogs vamoosed. Now you know why we called him our “Dumb Dog”. How did Dr Folinsbee know whose dog it was? Well in those days everybody knew everybody AND their dogs. “Oh, for those days in a more simple time!”