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June 1996 WEST VANCOUVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY Page 7 WEST VANCOUVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING THURSDAY, JUNE 20,1996 at 7:00 pm At the Cedardale Centre, 595 Burley Drive, West Van. Speaker - Marylin Mulan, Curator & Executive Director, Britannia Beach Historical Society DATE OF THE FOLLOWING GENERAL MEETING Wednesday, September 25,1996 At the West Vancouver Senior Centre FOR COMING MUSEUM & ARCHIVES EVENTS See Calendar of Events on Page 10 From the Marilyn Mullan BCMofM Second Forestry Heritage Brochure Printed Since publishing the “Shakes, Shinglebolts and Steampots” brochure, featuring the Brothers Creek Heritage Walk, Coordinator Hugh Johnston, with his valiant group of foresters, has been busy for the past 3 years, designing , planning and working on the Lawson Creek Forestry Heritage Walk. The group has spent manjr hours clearing deadfalls, repairing and building bridges, identifying old trails, breaking new ones and tracking down the remnants of logging - from the turn of the century to 1950. New signs have been placed throughout, identifying new trails as well as the old trails that have been reopened. The new brochure “Lawson Creek Forestry Heritage Walk” is available at the Gertrude Lawson House Gift Shop, Museum & Archives; the Parks Department, Municipal Hall, and in the West Vancouver Memorial Library. Continued from page 1 Marilyn Mullan, Curator & Executive Director She was the founding Vice-President of the Greater Vancouver Mining Women's Association and served a two year term as President of the Association from 1975-1979. Through this organization Marilyn became involved as a volunteer with the British Columbia Museum of Mining, the operating arm of the Britannia Beach Historical Society and was subsequently elected to the Board of Directors. In 1980 she accepted the responsibilities of Curator and in 1986 was appointed Executive Director, a position she has maintained for ten years. During her tenure at the Museum, working with the Board of Directors, she developed the exhibit and audio-visual program “Britannia, the story of a BC Mine -1888-1974” which illustrates the Britannia Mines as a model for underground rock mine development in B. C. Reprinted with permission of BCMuseum of Mining West Van Hi Grads '46 & '47 Publisher's Note: In line with our policy of assisting West Vancouver schools with reunions we are pleased to print in part the latest letter regarding the '47 fifty year class reunion. Dear fellow Graduates of the class of 1947, and our classmates in previous years: We have had over 100 positive replies to our “ARE YOU INTERESTED?” letter and also many suggestions. We have formed a reunion Committee and contacts are â€" Vic Cue - 922-9539, Don Fleming - 922-1892 and Walter Sills - 987-3852 After a couple of meetings and much discussion, the following basic program has been decided upon. Mark Your Calendar and Plan to Join the Fun When: Friday, September 19th, 1997 & Saturday, September 20th, 1997 Where: Hollybum Winter Club, 950 Cross Creek Road, West Vancouver, B.C. Cost: To be advised with registration form. An invitation to join us has been extended to the graduating Class of 1946. They are not having a reunion this year, so their theme wiU be reunion 50 plus 1. The coordinators of this group will be: Peter Hall - 922-7947, Jack Cruickshank - 926-9001, and Peggy Thompson At this time our plan of events is: a) Friday evening: A NO HOST cocktail party from 7 to 11 pm -1) Reception 2) Registration 3) Archives b) Saturday evening: from 5 pm to 12 midnight. A NO HOST Cocktail party. Dinner, Entertainment, Dance and/or Socializing. c) As we progress, we plan to expand the day to other events and may make some modifications to the above program. The 50 YEAR REUNION is going to take place and from the enthusiastic response and the work of the committee, it will be a smashing success with everybody welcome to all functions. DON’T MISS rr. â€" PLAN TO ATTEND. ‘ We are still looking for the addresses of some Grads and Classmates. If you know of any still unaware of the reunion please have them contact me, Walter Sills 455 West 28th Street, North Vancouver, B.C. V7N 2J4