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Page 4 WEST VANCOUVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY June 1996 SOCIETY NEWS Current Affairs and News of General Interest to Members EDITORIAL COMMENT We Asked for More Nostalgia! We want to extend a special thank you to Joan Skipper and Jeremy Dalton who were inspired by Barbara Johnson's column of last issue to submit memories of West Van past Their contributions appear on page 9. We were pleased also to receive a call from Jeannie Moss (nee Allan) who also has tales to tell and has promised them for a later issue. Just keep those contributions coming and remember, the more names and details the better. SPECIAL EVENTS ACTIVITIES COMMUNITY DAY, 1996 Community Day will be over by the time this Newsletter is printed. Unfortunately we will have gone to press before the parade has reached the Senior Activity Centre. So the report on the display and parade will have to wait for the September Newsletter. Hope you all were there and the weather was fine. MASONIC HALL 75TH ANNIVERSARY. At their request we were pleased to prepare 12 panels of West Vancouver’s history on loan for display at the Mason Hall for their 75th Anniversary. Jack Leyland has notified us that the display was very impressive and much appreciated. SUMMER TOUR OF BRITANNIA MINES As noted on Page 1, our summer outing this year will be a tour of the B.C. Museum at Britannia Beach on Friday, July 5. The cost is $6.50 per person. The tour is scheduled to start at 1:30 pm. Britannia Beach is about 30 minutes from Horseshoe Bay on the ‘Sea to Sky’ highway 99 towards Whistler; the entrance to the Mines is well marked as you reach Britannia. MUSEUM TOUR â€" Try to arrive a few minutes early. Upon arrival a tour guide will greet us. Remain in the parking lot until that time. Due to the industrial environment, comfortable walking shoes and a light jacket are recommended. The tour will take us through the Engineering Building which is now the Museum orientation/information centre and gift shop. After a brief video presentation. Mine Tour Guides will take us through the Mining House which offers 3 levels of displays and exhibits. Leaving the Museum we board the train for a tour of the mine tunnel. At 1200 feet down we watch a demonstration of old and new methods of drilling, blasting, mucking, slushing and rock stabilization, (phew!) Outside now, we will see the early diamond drills, then the Mill #3 concentrator â€" one of the last remaining gravity-feed concentrators in North America. We then view various workshops and are given verbal and signage interpretations that will explain the project. Membership Report By: Joan Skipper I would like to introduce the members joining since our last list was published in April. I would also like to welcome our latest Coiporate Members, Capilano Golf and Country Club and Simpson Home Hardware Mrs. Jane Colpitts David Fonseca Dr. Edward McDonell Alice Cruickshank Maida Kirk-Owen Anne S McDonell Helen Davies George C. Watt BC MUSEUM OF MINING Britannia Mines, circa. 1948 The tour will end in the gold recovery area where you will have the opportunity to pan for gold, at an additional charge of $3.50. (You get to keep what gold you find.) Here the Assay Lab shows the Museum’s Geology collecting and mining kit making, focused on the “Mineral Experience”. In the Industrial Yard there is on permanent exhibit a variety of mining machinery that was operating in the 1920’s and ‘30’s when Britannia Mines was operating at their peak. SCHEDULE AND COST â€"^The mine tour has been scheduled at 1:30 pm to co-ordinate with the Maverick bus line departure from the old CNR station at Main and Station street in Vancouver at 11 am. Pick up points are at the Bus Shelter at the north end of the Lions Gate Bridge on Marine drive at about 11:10am and also at Inglewood and Taylor Way at 11:20. Bus passengers will arrive at Britannia Beach about noon. There is a Cafeteria available and outdoor picnic facilities for those who would rather bring their own lunch. The tour takes approximately 1 1/2 hours. Maverick Bus Lines have buses leaving for Vancouver at 3 pm and at 6:15 pm. The fare, $6.50 one way, $12 return. We suggest car pooling! CAR POOLING â€" We understand there is ample parking.We are organizing car pooling and ask that anyone driving up for the tour and having a spare seat in the car may phone Waring at 987-2810 and leave their name. Those wishing a ride may leave their name also and we will try to match them up. A list win be circulated at the AGM on June 20 at Cedardale Centre. Laureen Jones - Director, Special Events.