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Page 4 West Vancouver Historical Society September 2001 SOCIETY NEWS CAIRRFNT AFFAIRS AND NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST TO MEMBERS Special Events Activities By: Laureen Jones Director, Special Events Despite tlie rallier miserable weailier, tlie Hannony Arts Festival was well attended and enjoyed by many West Vancouverites and friends and the Museum's special programmes were very popular. The West Vancouver Heritage Advisory Commission works closely witli tlie WV Museum & Archives, our Society and otlier NortJi Shore heritage groups to organise special heritage events for Heritage Week in February, including co-ordinating tlie Heritage Achievement awards programme, and for Nortli Shore Heritage Weekend. This year. Heritage Weekend will be September 14 - 16, and you are all encouraged to watch for posters and pamphlets witli a full list of events. Events co-sponsored by die Commission include an information booUi in Ambleside Park on Sunday September 16tli. Please call 604.925.7236 or 604.925.7295 for more information. PHOTO: W. V. Planning Dept. Information Booth for Harmony Arts Festival Hollyburn School Restoration Membership Report By: Joan Skipper Membership Chair Since tlie last newsletter edition, we have enrolled one new member. She is Joan Cox from West Vancouver who has volunteered to act as Treasurer for the Historical Society. Welcome Joan. Past Treasurer Mia Bonettemaker, who had to give up tliat position due to pressure of business, worked witli Joan during tlie hand-over period in the summer months. Thank you for all your hard work, Mia. NORTH SHORE HERITAGE WEEKEND As part of Uie Nortli Shore Heritage Weekend the Hollyburn Heritage Society presents "A Heritage Walk on Hollyburn" on Saturday, September 15th, 2001. Have you ever taken a walk on a mountain? And did you know tliat during tlie 1930's there was a thriving community of almost 300 cabins on Hollyburn, when tliousands hiked up from the ferry wharf on weekends to share friendship, camping and ski-ing? If not, why not try it out Uiis Fall? On tlie Heritage Walk you will explore trails originally created by loggers in tlie early 1920's and see some of tlie old cabins, still in use today, as well as the historic Hollyburn Lodge at First Lake. If you plan to Join tlie group on September 15tli be at tlie main entrance of tlie West Vancouver Seniors’ Activity Centre at 10:00 am on Saturday, 15th September, where a bus will take you up to tlie Cypress Bowl Cross Comitry Ski Area parking lot to meet your guides. The bus will bring you back to Uie WV Seniors' Activity Centre at 1:00 pm. If you plan to drive, be at Uie BC Parks kiosk at the Cypress Bowl Ski Area parking lot by 10:30 am. Tlie cost is $7.50 per person and payment and preregistration by all participants must be made by Wednesday, September 10th, 2001. Contact lola Knight at 922-7358 to register Do remember to wear comfortable clothes and shoes. (Also raingear if it is wet!) Tlie Facilities Department of the School District of West Vancouver has just begun a 3 year plan to restore the original look to the exterior of the Hollyburn elementary School building. Back in the late 50's the exterior was reclad with a wider board. Tliis summer the Facilities Department began work removing this "new" covering and restoring the old. TTiey are curious about its original paint colour. This might be a good time for those of you who have fond memories of one of the oldest of West Vancouver's schools and the site of its first high school to drop us a line at History-Onics and share them with us. Any old pictures that we could publish? Our president David Barker remembers attending there in grade 1 in 1946 and the janitors throwing sawdust on the oiled wood floors and the man who used to demonstrate and sell yo-yos just outside the school grounds in the springtime.