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Page 7 West Vancouver Historical Society November 2003 side of Inglewood. This meant that Inglewood cut right through the school grounds. Now here is how the late Ted Baynes told me the story: “One time Inglewood used to go right through the Pauline Johnson School grounds. Eddie (Ed Richardson, then Municipal Engineer) said that’s ridiculousâ€"going to kill a kid some day. So we went to Council, and oh, they wouldn’t change it. You know the fire department, the garbage people, they wanted a quick route. Well, Eddie thought about it a while, and you know what he did? He took one of the bulldozers and just bulldozed a road around the outside and shut the road (Inglewood) off Nobody saw it in time.” The “road around the outside”, which curves from the intersection of 2P‘ and Inglewood around to Join Jefferson on the north side of the schoolâ€" and now marked as Inglewoodâ€"destroyed our old battleground, but thanks to Eddie and Ted PJS is a safer place. YOUR LETTERS We recently received the following letter from one of our members--a graduate of the W.VH.S. class of‘41: Dear Anne, I received the very “newsy” History-Onics yesterday. So many names I know! As a young girl in the 1930’s traveling on the ferries I used to like talking to Gerry Lancaster. He always had a smile and remembered a lot of our names. My mother never allowed me to call him “Gerry”â€" always either Mr. or Capt.l The section 1928-refers to John Allan. There were two John Allans in West Vancouver at that time. The one referred to was not my brother John Allan. He went to Pauline Johnson, and am sure never climbed out of a window in his life! After graduating from West Van High, he went to U.B.C., joined the navy and served on H.M.C.S. Prince Rupert, where he was mentioned in dispatches. After the war he went to Toronto to attend Knox Presbyterian College. He graduated and served several parishes in Ontario before coming back to B.C. He was given parishes here in Port Alberni, Nelson and Newton. He had always been interested in marine life on the B.C. coast and worked with the B.C. division of the aquarium for several years. The Reverend John Allan passed away recently. Yours truly, Jeanie (Allan) Moss The following poem was written by the Reverend Francis H. Stevens to mark the opening of the new United Church at 2062 Esquimalt Avenue. It is from the cover of the church’s 1945 Annual Report. The New Church It is still a dream, of course. But the dream will come true one of these days.... Not in 1945, perhaps. Or even in 1946. But soonâ€"sooner than we dare hope, it may beâ€" A fine new edifice will rise. Possibly it may look like this. Possibly it will be very different in appearance; But may it be a building. Worthy of the best in this Community, Planned to be useful in all Good Works, Worshipful, in Beauty of Holiness; Dedicated to God, and the Children of God: Our Church, The Church of Jesus Christ, Your Church, The United Church in West Vancouver (Many thanks to Tom Baldwin for sending in this item.) I Hope Not to Tread Upon Your Patience... as I muddle along in my first attempts at formatting a newsletter. Working with text is one thing, but techniques involved in pasting in photographs and graphics of various kinds are new to me. The words “kerning” and “leading” are foreign to me. Thankfully, I have both technical and moral support from two of our Society’s able members, Anne Vernon and John Cox. I’ll do my best to justify your natience. I’ll strive for excellence Anne has disniaved in Historv-Onics for miite some time now -7T