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Page 6 West Vancouver Historical Society May 2004 CORPORATE MEMBERS We gratefully acknowledge the support of our Corporate Members, whose names appear here in order of joining. The Palms Guest House Chapman Land Surveying Ltd. North Shore Driving School The Capilano Golf & Country Club BC Rail Ltd. The West Vancouver Historical Society Simpson Home Hardware Wetmore Motors Ltd. Laura Miller Edit & Arch Services West Vancouver Board of School Trustees Faximum Software Inc. Hollyburn Funeral Home Ltd. Royal Canadian Legion Branch 60 Dave’s Autobody Shop Ltd. Dr. Bryan R. Hicks Inc. British Pacific Properties Ltd. Vancouver Historical Society Seems there’s a town plan missing somewhere, and the Municipal council is anxious to see it.... “I’ve been hearing about this town plan for goodness knows how long,” Reeve T. J. Brown said, at the council meeting this week. “Where is it?” “It was supposed to be delivered last November,” Councillor J. Richardson said accusingly to Councillor G. E. Baynes, member of the Town planning Commission in 1946. “Some of it is in the B.C. Electric window,” Councillor Baynes supplied, “but I think it’s nearly completed now.” “Well, who’s got it?” persisted the reeve, looking around the table. Municipal Clerk Rupert Harrison was absorbed in his papers. Comptroller W. Nish MacDonald absent-mindedly added up a column of figures. Engineer E. W. Richardson pulled refieciiveiy on his pipe. “Don’t look at me,” said Councillor J. Folinsbee. It was finally concluded that the planning engineers, Harland Bartholomew and Associates, still have the plan in their possession. (Lions Gate Times Iden 16, 1947) Roughing It in 1933 The misses Evelyn, Joyce and Dorothy Dickinson, Lenna Simpson, Gwen Lightly, Eileen Dent, Robin Baker of Haney, and Mrs. Brinkhurst of Vancouver, recently spent a couple of weeks camping at the Capilano River. In a recent conversation she had with Kiriko Watanable of our Museum Staff, Grace (Thompson) Harrison mentioned that she and Rupert acquired, in 1939, a two digit phone number soon after their marriage in the late summer of that year: West 32M. (The “M” doesn’t count.)________________ The Last Ferry A member asked us about the “last ferry”, which was men- tioned in the March newsletter, wondering if we might find out a little more about it. We did: it was in the Lions Gate Times, and we include it here: Ferries Bow Out of Picture As the shadows closed swiftly on a darkening world. West Vancouver No. 6 slipped away from Ambleside dock Saturday night on the last trip of the ferries’ long and colorful career. Touring the boat was like taking a page from West Vancouver’s historical romance. John Lawson and John Sinclair were there, pioneers of the community’s development. They are the two surviving members of the original firm of Lawson, Sinclair, Thompson and McPherson that started the ferries as a private venture in 1909. Now, at the age of 85, John Sinclair can still shovel gravel with the best man in his contracting business, and John Lawson can still put a full day in at the garden. “Rattlesnake Pete” Freemantle was there, veteran of the Riel Rebellion, making this final tribute to the past. Captain Roy Smith, Captain Gerry Lancaster, and Captain Harry Vince were there in the wheelhouse, lending moral support to Captain Gordon Warren, who had the honor of piloting the last ferry. Tales of the old days on the gallant little vessels were chewed and chuckled over again. Captain Smith recalled the time he sneezed his teeth out of the wheelhouse window into the lap of a pretty lady passenger.