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September 2000 West Vancouver Historical Society Pages WEST VANCOUVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY NEXT GENERAL MEETING WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27,2000 at 7:00 pm At the Seniors' Activity Centre, 695- 21st Street, West Vancouver Speaker Don Graham’s subject is -Incident at Estevan: What Really Did Happen In June, 1942? Once Upon A time By; Laureen Jones It wasn't very long ago that we watched Ted (Edward) Meglaughlin and Olive, Ted's wife, arrive at the Museum & Archives from time to time. They brought their own equipment and used it to keep the garden in a properly organised manner. Bustling about watering plants, gathering leaves, trimming flowers, then packing away their gear until the next time they required it, they kept the Gertrude Lawson House garden in good order. Both Ted and Olive were members of the West Vancouver Historical Society and they have been volunteers for quite some time. Ted was both an indoor and an outdoor worker. The indoor part was often working with picture panels, while the outdoor part was often trimming trees, etc. He was also very active in the "Howe Sound Lions". Ted was bom in West Vancouver in 1920, went to Hollybum School and Inglewood Senior class. He passed away on August 7th, 2000, at the Lions Gate Hospital. A celebration of Ted’s life was held at the Hollybum Funeral Home, where so many of his old friends gathered to swap all the good memories he left behind. Ted will be sadly missed by many people, especially his fellow Society members. Muriel Reid - 1884-1989 By: The Editor We want to bring you pictures of some West Vancouverites -people who did not necessarily make the headlines but touched the lives of many of their fellow citizens. The following was found in our files. We do not know who wrote it, but maybe some of our readers can tell us more. Muriel C. (Colls) Reid was born in Tlmbridge Wells in 1884 - only 19 years after the American Civil War. She and her 8 brothers and sisters were raised during the strict Victorian era. Being of an adventurous spirit Muriel found her life cramped and irksome. At the age of 21 she left England on her own and migrated to Western Canada. She arrived in Vancouver in 1905 where she eventually found employment on the Henry Cornwall Ranch at Cherry Creek near Kamloops. There she cooked for the family and men, and rode with the ranchhands. She loved the vastness of the gently undulating land, the scent of the sagebmsh, the cattle-dotted fields, and the glorious canopy of blue sky above. A few years later Muriel left the ranch country and returned to Vancouver, where she met and subsequently married Lestock Blair Reid in 1911. They resided in the West End of Vancouver until after the War, when on his return from overseas he moved his family to the rural setting of West Vancouver. It was in 1919 when the family of four rented a cottage in Wings Point first, and then moved to Dundarave near the old pier. The house was always referred to as the Little Green House. It was located on the southwest comer of Bellevue and 25th Street, next door to a store and just south of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway. Most of the residents in that area lived in tents dotted like a row of white teepees along the waterfront.Gadually the area became more established with homes and businesses cropping up all over West Vancouver. Lestock Reid joined the staff of the Vancouver City Hall after he left the bank and remained with them for almost 40 years. In those days it was quite a journey for the men employed in Vancouver and residing in West Vancouver to reach their jobs. For some time Mr Reid caught the P.G.E. early in the morning, relaxed and read the paper on the trip to the ferry terminal, and then transferred to the West Van Ferry, the "Doncella" or the "Sunrisa", for the passage to Vancouver city. The ferry docked at Columbia Street, and then he walked to the City Hall on Hastings Street. Later on he caught the West Van bus at 25th Street and Marine Drive to the ferry dock at 14th Street, for the Burrard Inlet crossing to town. Mrs Reid was widowed in 1954 and after a short time in the Newton area in Surrey she returned to West Vancouver and lived in West Bay, then in an apartment in Ambleside until she was cared for in the Kiwanis Lodge on 22nd Street. She passed away in the Inglewood Lodge at the age of 105 years, on April 1,1989. We hope you enjoyed this story as much as we did. Several of our readers probably knew Mrs Reid., but do any of you remember "The Green House" or can tell us where "Wings Point" is? Does it have a different name today?