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Page 8 Recollections of Joan (Luke) Skipper I arrived in West Vancouver as a baby with my parents, Jim and Vera Luke, in 1923. Our first home was one of the cottages at Ambleside Beach. My father could walk along the beach to the ferry at Ambleside Dock, and once across the inlet, would walk to his office on Pender Street. After the arrival of my sister Audrey, we moved to 2432 Ottawa Avenue, which comprised a double lot on the south side, extending east to the lane off 24“’. I cannot recall another north- south lane in the area. Across from us lived Dick Beard, and next to him, Peter and Pauline Greer, on the northwest corner of 24‘^ and Ottawa. Then, on the northeast corner, lived Myrtle Duckworth, with the Milner family on the southeast comer. The Gisby and Harrop families lived in the block east, along Ottawa, and on the west, on Ottawa, the Murrays (not Marjorie, who lived one block higher, and the Lynns. My father bought six lots at 23’“ and Palmerston (along the “Pipeline”) and planned to build a home on this property. I recall watching him clear land cut huge trees with the help of friends who came to help on weekends. On this property was a wide trail leading up Hollyburn Mountain. The Property was sold in the early ‘thirties in order to pay for a major operation my mother had to have. I can recall times when we would come home from Vancouver on the North Vancouver Ferry, transfer the to the PG.E., travel to Dundarave, and walk the six or seven blocks up the hill to our house. We took swimming lessons at Dundarave Pier (in the tank), and spent many summer days swimming there. Audrey and I and younger sister Angela attended Pauline Johnson School, walking along wooden sidewalks on 24‘“ Street, for part of the way. Audrey and I went on to Inglewood Junior High School until we moved to Victoria at the beginning of World War II. Letter from Bert Jordan Having graduated from Dundarave School, Pauline Johnson and Inglewood (or West Van High) I read with great interest the stories of these schools in the latest copies of History- Onics. I was in the last class at Dundarave before moving to Pauline Johnson in Grade 5 (teacher Mr. Hugh Brown). I graduated from West Van High in 1942 and spent a short period working on the P.G.E. Railway previous to joining the R.C.N.V.R. during the war. To answer a question in Lucy Smith’s letter, both Miss Jones and Miss Naim transferred from Dundarave to Pauline Johnson. The lineup of teachers and rooms at W.V.H. varied considerably from Lucy’s account after 1936. My grandparents, Nicholas and Elizabeth Raine, were pioneers of West Vancouver. Grandfather did a lot the landscaping in Memorial Park at 20“’ and Marine. The Capilano View Cemeteiy is the resting place of my grandparents and one aunt. I enjoy reading History-Onics because it brings back a lot of memories of my long-distant youth growing up in the Altamont district when West Vancouver, according to Canada Post, did not exist; mail had to be addressed to Hollyburn P.O. or in our case Dundarave P.O. Particular thanks this issue to Melanie Harbattle, our archivist, who supplied several photos, including 14^^ and Marine, and the other of Sibbie Small. (I didn’t think anyone could find one of Mrs. Small.)