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Page 3 West Vancouver Historical Society May 2004 West Vancouver Celebrates its 10th Anniversary July 3,2004 by Deborah Tbyttens, Museum Curator 2004 marks the first decade of the West Vancouver Museum & Archives. The Museum & Archives was founded by the West Vancouver Historical Society and the Rotary Club of West Vancouver. Initiated in the early 1980s, the Society pursued the idea of a museum and archives for the community, and in 1989 joined with the District of West Vancouver in making the dream a reality. On July 1, 1994 the facility was officially opened by the Squamish Nation in a ceremony witnessed by over 2,0(K) visitors. On July 3, 2004 the Museum and Archives will celebrate its 10th anniversary with the opening of Generations //. Please Join us as we commemorate this heritage milestone. Thanks to all who have made this facility a reality and success. We could not have done it without you. Generations II examines the history of West Vancouver through the artists that were living and thriving in the community during the 1960s and 1970s. Memories and anecdotes of this time period will provide the backdrop for the works that will be featured in the exhibition. Participating artists include. King Anderson, Joan Balzar, Toni Cavelti, Madeleine Chisholm, Jane Fawkes, Mary Frazee, Dawn Germyn, Eldon Greer, Tam Irving, Daniel Izzard, Zoltan Kiss, Shirley Legate, Mieneke Mees, Peter Mees, Sally Michener, Kathy Robertson, Elizabeth Smiley, Karl Stittgen and Sylvia Tait. NORMA MiNIGNS ;S MAY QUEEN Members of the Naomi Chapter Inglewood High School, will rule as May Queen in the May Day celebration on May 24th. Norma’s name was drawn by Reeve J.B. Leyland following the May Day elections in the local schools. The May Queen- elect is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E.H. Minions, 1705 Duchess Avenue. The maids of honour are Barbara Edwards, aged 13, and Jessie Wrisberg, aged 13, both of Inglewood Junior High School Others who will participate in the coronation are as follows: Guards of Honour from Hollyburn School: Anna Spanks, Margaret Payne and Ruth Edington; from Pauline Johnson School: Diana Chapman, Mary McLeod and Lois Minkley; flower girls: from Hollyburn School: Donna Dalgleish, Dorothy McCulloch; from Pauline Johnson School: Beryl Scott and Margaret Thompson; chancellors: Pauline Johnson: Gordon Thompson and Gordon Sangster. The Crown Bearer will be Georgie Edington of Hollyburn School. -from the WVN, May 7. 1936 “The People Project” If you thought Mike Riste’s talk at the March 24th general meeting was a study in inspired interest, you should also be made aware of another such enthusiastâ€"our archivist, Lois Enns. She has Just launched a program called the “People Project”, whose object is to record brief but comprehensive biographies of people who made a mark on West Vancou- ver’s history. One of her volunteers, Phil Codings, has al- ready done about five of these pieces, the first of which will appear in the fall issue of the newsletter. There’s no doubt that you’ll enjoy it and the others to come. We Would Not Lief Have Lost It A page that is. When we’d finished the last newsletter mail- out we noticed there was a left-over sheet: pages 5 and 6. If you suffered this loss of leaf let us know. You’ll get a re- placement in the May issue. (You could send in your 2005 dues along with the request and thereby save on postage.) An Off-Beat Off-Shore Item from Joan (MacNeil) Gutensohn In the last issue you mention the sinking of the No. 5 ferry. When that happened there must have been a certain amount of debris floating towards the West Van shore because my dad swam out and towed in a wood slat bench which sat in our garden for many years. Another story was of the mysterious “boat” burning. You may remember early century trunks were often made of wood. One Sunday in the ‘30’s my Dad decided to get rid of one of these old trunks. He thought it would be fun for us kids to set it ablaze and shove it into the water in front of our house. We filled the trunk with paper and launched the inferno. For a few hours we enjoyed the sight of it sailing away and then promptly forgot about it. Listening the 6:00 news that evening we learned that a boat was on fire in Georgia Strait. The police were called, rescue officials were alerted and we all rushed to look out the window. With the aid of the binoculars we could just make out our trunk still burning merrily away in the twilight well off the shore of West Bay. Before anyone in a boat could get to it the trunk sank again, much to our relief. The next morning there was still talk on a Vancouver radio station of the mysterious burning boat. Only we MacNeils knew the truth and we kept our mouths shut. Joan is a West Van High graduate (a vintage year) living at Bird’s Eye Cove, BC. Council Matters-August 17th, 1914 A letter was read from the Secretary of the School Board stating that the Reeve and Council had no authority to de- clare June 11th, 1914 a school holiday. Referred to the Reeve.