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Pages WEST VANCOUVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY September 1996 fIRCHIVES CORNER PLAYING THE “WORD GAME” Mary Chapman, Archives Volunteer Coordinator While waiting for the bus one morning I eavesdropped on the conversation between two Japanese students. The topic seemed to be the word appendix. The heavily accented explanation by one of them being an addition to a book or document. He then proceeded to touch his abdominal area and said appendix whereupon both of them shook their heads followed by knuckle-fisted contact with their skulls. I smiled and nodded in silent agreement about the complexities of the English language. Boarding the bus, I spent the next 30 minutes playing a word game in my mind while the students retreated into their comfortable mother- tongue, chattering like starlings with friends on the bus. I wondered how these two young lads and their fellow-students would cope with the spelling and the sounds of the many new words that they would encounter, would they analyze each in the same manner as above, or like me, by rote, or the luck of my birth? Enough, dough, bough, slough (two ways, sloo and stuff.) Will the rule of i before e except after c be firmly planted in the their memtny bank â€" receive, deceive, conceive, etc.? How then, can we explain leisure, their, beige! Even place and street names don’t co-operate. I was once asked by a German tourist for directions to Kythe Road. Having personal knowledge that eiis sounded eye in German {Einstein) I realized that he was looking for Keith Road named for Mr. James C. Keith, who bankrolled the initial Keith Road. 1 wondered if he spotted the Caulfeild exit sign on the Upper Levels highway, would he have the double problem of the sound and also the seemingly misspelling of feild instead of fields Even the Caulfeilds had a few differences in the spelling of their name. According to Burke’s Peerage and Baronetage the original spelling of the name was Calfehill (in those days people spelled their names as they thought they night be spelled) but note the position of the e before the i of Calfehill. The Claulfeild family first made its mark at the end of the 16th century when a certain Toby Caulfeild, a soldier, was sent to Ireland with a force to try to subdue the rebels, the mission was successful, his reward being a knighthood and later a barony to which his descendants added further honours of Viscount and culminating in an Irish earldom as Earl of Charlemont. The earldom became extinct in 1892, but the original Irish viscountcy continues. Francis W. Caulfeild to whcnn Caulfeild, West Vancouver owes its existence and special characteristics, was bom in England in August 1843 and died in March 1934. The son of a country parson, he received the education normal for his social status; i.e. public school, ragby, and University (Wadham College, Oxford). His inclinations were not like those of his ancestors towards a life of action in the military or political fields but toward the arts. He was a classical scholar, and artist of no mean talent, and produced some very original wood carvings. As well, he translated into English hexameters, the original metre used by Homer, of the Odyssey an experiment not tried before, or since, by anyone else as far as is known. For a few years he was employed as an assistant master at Wellington College to help with the education of his four children thus curtailing the nomadic tendencies of both Caulfeild and his wife for a few years. Shortly before the turn of the century Mr. Caulfeild developed a serious chest weakness. The doctor recommended a long sea journey which ended with his buying a large estate in what is now known as Caulfeild. Surprisingly the doctor’s advice proved to be sound treatment for not only did he live on in full health and vigour into his 80th year but West Vancouver became the beneficiary of a legacy of a meticulously designed English village. Whether it is spelled Caulfeild or Calfehill â€" words in the word game â€" Mother Nature didn’t worry for she knew that her fate was in the hands of an artist who knew what he was doing. Additional information about Caulfeild can be found in your Archives at 680-17th Street, West Vancouver. MR. CAULFEILD DROPS IN FOR TEA. ........OR WAS IT COFFEE? On August 7,1996 the Archives was a beehive of activity arising from a collection of news clippings, original photographs, maps eu:. from the holdings of James Caulfeild, great grandson of Francis W. Caulfeild and loaned to us for copying while Mr. Caulfeild and his family went traveling around B.C. Photocopies, Lasers, and negatives have been made. On Sunday the 18th some of us attended St Francis-in-the-Woods church where James Caulfeild, his wife Penny, their four daughters, Harriet, Victoria, Frances, and Sophie were among the parishioners and duly acknowledged by the minister. We later proceeded to the patio for tea, coffee, . and biscuits where we could socialize with the Caulfeilds. A visit to the Museum & Archives in the afternoon brought forth much praise from them and they in turn departed with a clearer knowledge of the Francis Caulfeild-John Lawson connection mentioned in some of their news clippings. Mary Chapman, AVC k