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Page 4 West Vancouver Historical Society May 2002 SOCIETY NEWS CAJRRENT AFFAIRS AND NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST TO MEMBERS Special Events Activities By: Laureen Jones Director, Special Events West Vancouver Community Day Moves to Ambleside Park West Vancouver's Annual Community Day Extravaganza SUN, SURF 'N' SAND Will be held on Saturday, June 01, 2002 at Ambleside. Exciting new changes are being implemented this year at Community Day 2002 due to extensive renovation work at the West Van Rec, Centre. This year the route has been reversed and will now BEGIN at the Rec. Centre at Marine and 22nd Street and END at Ambleside Park, where the Community Day festivities will take place. Those of you who fondly remember the MAY DAY celebrations in the "good old days" will feel right at home. We are all very excited about tlie changes to the parade route and the community day festivities in general. Everyone is working to make the outdoor event fun filled with lots of great treats for all ages. Mark Saturday, June first, on your calendar today - Come down and wave to Lucy Smith in the parade and visit our display a Ambleside Park. See you (here! JOHN LAWSON PARK Don't forget when you walk the Seawalk this spring and summer to look for the latest events spon- sored by the Museum and the Historical Societ). notices of which appear on the display panels in tlie covered kiosk beside tJie new washrooms. Your Society donated funds toward tlie erection of this kiosk and we hope that the information dis- played about the Museum & Arcliives and the Society, will result in more public interest in tlie events spon- sored by these two organisations. Be sure to stop and have a look - you will see details of our upcoming meetings, speakers and special events. The displays will change from time to time. Membership Report By: Joan Skipper Membership Chair Nearly all of our membership renewals have now been received. Many thanks to you all for supporting us. The Society could not operate without your help and that means that we, in turn, are able to support many local heritage projects. New members since our last newsletter are; Marjorie Logan Shirley Westfall Dierdre Bickford Marilyn Morris Victoria, BC North Vancouver West Vancouver, BC West Vancouver, BC Welcome to you all. We hope to see you at our general meetings. West Vancouver: Ever a Haven for Dogs By: Tom Taylor (Confd. from page 3] to Dick, whereupon he had the offending Teddy take a sniff of sodium hydroxide to discourage further school visits. But that measure worked only a short time: henceforth the dog had to remain at home. Matters went from bad to worse when Teddy, offended by anyone wearing a uniform, bit the postman. It fell to Charlie Hailstone to destroy tlie dog, which for him, especially, was a pairrfully sad task. In the ‘forties, at any given time of the school day, at least one dog could be found in one of the tliree schools. June 17, 1943 North Shore Has Most Dogs: West Vancou- ver Leads There are more dog lovers, per capita, in West Vancouver, than in any other organized district of the metropolitan area, a canine census showed today. The City of North Vancouver is second in this connection. Burnaby third. District of North Vancouver fourth, and the City of Vancouver lags badly in fifth place. In West Vancouver there is about one dog to every nine residents, while in Vancouver proper the proportion is only one to 23. (Vancouver DailyProvince) -Extracted from Tom Taylor’s hoped-for publica- tion “Glimpses of World War II West Vancouver”