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WEST VANCOUVER MEMORIAL LIBRARY mSTORY-ONICS VOL. 13 NO. 4 SEPTEMBER 1995 THE NEWSLETTER OF THE WEST VANCOUVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY ‘Cannery Days’ The West Vancouver Museum*s New Exhibit Will Highlight West Coast Fish Canneries.____________ The West Vancouver Museum opens a new exhibit on October 17,1995 illustrating fish canning operations on the coast of B.C. Prominent in this exhibition will be a section on the canneries in West Vancouver, including Eagle Harbour and Great Northern, focusing on their history The feature presentation will be a travelling exhibit. Cannery Days: A Chapter in the Lives of the Heiltsuk, which highlights the role of First Nation Heiltsuk women in canneries, primarily in the post-war years up to 1967. The exhibit will run until February 3, 1996. The current exhibit, The Sporting Life: Summer Recreation in West Vancouver 1910-1950, closes September 30. North Shore Heritage Weekend Saturday & Sunday, September 16 & 17,1995 Come celebrate Heritage across the North Shore from Deep Cove to Bowen Island, with walks, tours and a Blueberry Tea at the West Vancouver Museum and Archives on Sunday, September 17 at 2 pm. For further details see WVM&A flyer enclosed. NEXT GENERAL MEETING Sponsorship of this meeting will be generously undertaken by the The Bank of Nova Scotia 1586 Marine Drive West Vancouver, B.C, Thursday, September 28,1995, at 7 PM in the Auditorium of the Cedardale Centre, 595 Burley Drive (off Inglewood East of Taylor Way) FEATURE PRESENTATION Bowen Island Lois Meyers - Carter and Dorothy Lawson of the Bowen Island Historians will present an evening of talk and video on the history of Bowen Island: from its beginnings in the 1890’s as a summer getaway through the Union Steamships era to the present. To add to the evening, they have asked that anyone having old pictures, picnic flyers, or any other memorabilia should bring them along. Great Northern Cannery, West Van., B.C. wvma foods 35 Please Note the New Phone Numbers West Vancouver Historical Society â€" 925-7299 West Vancouver Museum & Archives â€" 925-7295 01 sn:ci XI. isrEREST And This is tl^Way It Was - Barbara Johnson reflects on West Vancouver's Heritage - Page 3 Memories of Cannery Days - Waring Pentiand shares random memories of summer 1945 - Page 3 Hollyburn Ridge Reunions -Effie Sutherland provides some background and good advice for the not to be missed Annual Hollyburn Reunion - Page 5 Defining a Local Heritage - a Review of Robin IngUs * Feature Presentation by Anne Vernon Page 6 Hollyburn to Cypress - a nostalgic view of Hollyburn and changing Hmes, by Pixie Daly Page 7 News From ‘The Dusty Corner’- A new feature column by our Archivist, Anne Maclean - Page 8