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April 1996 WEST VANCOUVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY Pages WEST VANCOUVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY NEXT GENERAL MEETING TUESDAY, APRIL 23,1996 at 7:00 pm At the Senior Activity Centre, 695 21st Street, West Van. Speaker - Medical Historian, Dr. Ed McDonneU DATE OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Tuesday, June 18,1996 FOR COMING MUSEUM & ARCHIVES EVENTS See Calendar of Events Insert with this Issue WVHS General Meetings Relocated Senior Activity Centre Site More Convenient After several years with our General Meetings being held at Cedardale Centre, which proved anything but convenient, the Board of Directors have finally found a site they consider eminently satisfactory. The recently enlarged Senior Activity Centre has an Activity Room that will provide all the excellent services we have enjoyed on the previous premises with the advantage that it will be accessible to many more members. Located in the centre of West Vancouver’s most concentrated residential area at 21st and Marine, the Senior Activity Centre has the additional advantage of being on a bus line. The main access to the Activity Room is from Fulton Ave., between 21st and 22nd., through the main parking area. You enter through the glass doors of the main entrance and turn left into the Activity room through either of two sets of wooden doors. The information counter is just ahead of you as you enter and there will be a prominent sign providing directions. For bus passengers, a short walk up 21st will bring you to the east entrance to the building. A well lit entrance leads to a short corridor, the Activity room is on the right. Unfortunately, Thursday evenings were preempted requiring our change in Meeting night to the third Tuesday in the month. The meetings start at 7pm and we will be welcome until 10pm. Coffee will be available after the meeting. Part of the Lawson Family Collection WARING VOL V NT HER ACT IVIT/HS Edith Hawirko on * Archival Cataloguing* As told to Waring Pentland. Editor’s Note: I first met Edith early in 1992, before I began publishing History-onics; we were both enrolled in a Museum course given by Jacquie. Edith mentioned then that she was interested in Archival work, inspired by talking to Mary Chapman, a friend of hers since school days. We had a chat the other day and Edith has been kind enough to let us publish some of her remarks in her own words. We meet once a week now, Mary Chapman, Fran Hall, Pam Dewdney, Margery Andrews and I, every Wednesday from 10 until noon. Our project is to catalogue West Vancouver items from the archival files. We work together going through the files listing everything by year. We catalogue all items by subject listing the file of origin. Anne Maclean checks everything to make sure it is OK. I’m doing the Lawson file at the moment which includes a great deal of information on the family and the times. I also screen the current North Shore News every week, cutting out any items of West Vancouver information and filing them in subject clipping files. People bring in papers, family pictures and many other items or collections. Arme or Mary examine them, then Mary files them away or puts them in albums and then catalogues them. This is the source of the material we work on and fortunately there seems to be a steady flow We all find the work so very interesting. We are always reading old stories about the pioneers. For me it brings back so many memories of the time when I was growing up in West Vancouver. It was different then, and from these old records vivid memories come easily to mind; the old timers we knew, the ferries which were such an important part of our lives, and that sad day when the No. 5 sank. People cried at the news. The ferries were part of the family, so to speak. We see so many different records; council meetings, weddings, deaths, community events. They are all there in the files. While we are working with them a lot of chatting goes on. A name wiU come up and someone will say, ’’Do you remember so and so?”â€" somebody usually does. If anybody finds something unusual or interesting, everybody hears about it. We all look forward to our Wednesday morning job and hope that it continues for a long time to come. We have a great deal of fun and never get bored. For this, credit must go to Aime and Mary for making our work so enjoyable, despite the attention to detail that is required. To sum it all up, we think that we have the best job in the place! Kudos to Mary Chapman! West Vancouver’s up market magazine Lifestyles, Feb. 1996, page 54, in a special feature item, ‘a look back’, has an excellent two page historical profile of early West Vancouver by our long time society member and author. Well done Mary!