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February 2001 West Vancouver Historical Society Page 5 WEST VANCOUVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY NEXT GENERAL MEETING WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28th, 2001 at 7:00 pm At the Seniors' Activity Centre, 695- 21st Street, West Vancouver Speakers - Dan Sewell & John Moonen Topic - Horseshoe Bay - Then and Now. DATE OF THE NEXT GENERAL MEETING WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25TH, 2001 Narrows, albums and boxes of other lighthouse related items, etc. to the Maritime Museum and when her grandaughter went to the Maritime Museum and asked to look at them, she was told they were all in the basement in boxes somewhere and she was unable to see them! I received this information from one of Mrs Harrop's sons who telephoned me in December and I remember Mrs Harrop very well, as she was a friend of my Mother's many years ago. It seems a shame to me that this information on the early years of West Vancouver should be denied to West Vancouver inhabitants who are interested in the history of West Vancouver." More of Your Letters Joan Skipper, our hard-working Membership Cormnittee Chair, talks to many of you during the year. She loves to share the stories you tell her. Here is one more. "Mrs Stanley Harrop - nee Dorothy Harris. Dorothy Harrop's parents, Mrs & Mrs Harris, were keepers of the lighthouse at the foot of the Capilano River. The house is no longer t there, having been demolished in the 1950's.; The Harrises were the first keepers of that lighthouse and when Mr Harris died, Mrs Harris was asked to act as keeper until a new keeper was found. A Mr Dickinson eventually took over this light-; house. ' . ' Mrs Harrop (nee Harris), on her wedding ' day, rode over in a row boat, and in her wedding dress, to West Vancouver for the wedding. She lived in Ambleside for the first years of her marriage. She had four children when they lived on Ottawa Avenue near 24th Street After , her husband's retirement, they moved to Kamloops and returned to the North Shore in her last years. In her later years Mrs Harrop donated many albums of pictures of shipwrecks (the Beaverton on the rocks), and ships going through the First And a card to Joan from Carmen (Johnston) Anderson brings us the following memories: "My parents moved to West Van in 1923 after spending a summer month in a cabin between 18th and 19th below the railroad tracks - we had our first house at 2130 Argyle next door to the K.R. Ray family, he became mayor of West Van many years later. I sent very old maps to the West Vancouver Memorial Library in 1988 and received acknowledgement from a (Mrs?) M. Doreen Sullivan, Head, Reference Services. The maps included a real estate sales purchase of West Van in 1911. You may be interested in seeing them. I also have a picture of my parents on the original Capilano River bridge and the PGE Railway cars as they ran in front of our house between the yard and the beach. I attended all three elementary schools in my years as a child - Dundarave, Hollybum and Pauline Johnson - before going to Inglewood High. I am pleased to buy a membership for my grandaughters who grew up in Lynn Valley where their parents live. Kendra Smith is teaching school in West Van so it brings back happy memories of years gone by." (Ed note: We hope to be able to reproduce copies of some of this material in our next issue.)