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Pa^eS Stuart Cameron, who lived on “The Crescent” in Vancouver, bought property at 4732 South Piccadilly Road and built a magnificent house on it. In the fall of 1999 this house, considerably renovated, was sold. Its listed price was $2,495,000.00. Stuart Cameron’s daughter, Grace, married George Cowan, son of Senator George Henry and Joseph Irene Cowan. Of course, these people were virtually on “another planet” as far as I was concerned. They were of my parents’ and grand-parents’ generationsâ€"part of the world of Caulfeild fascination. (Mr. Cameron’s firm built the sub-structure of the Lions Gate Bridge in 1937.) World War II brought tragedy to the Cowan family. George had risen to the rank of major, and was killed in Italy on May 25‘^ 1944. He was thirty-nine years of age. My maternal grandfather, Mackenzie Matheson, bought his Caulfeild lot in 1912. His lot was next to that on which St. Francis-in-the-Wood would be erected fifteen years later. In front of the church there used to be a badminton court. It was there that my Christening photograph was taken. While he and my grandmother (Helen Cain Matheson) spent a great deal of time in Caulfeild, their “regular” house was at 1643 Haro Street in Vancouver’s West End. Until 1915, a trip to Caulfeild from the City meant a trip on the P.G.E. Railway. The attraction that Caulfeild held for Vancouverites was compelling. Getting there was no easy matter. The trip ordinarily had to be made from North Vancouver by train, and reaching the North Vancouver station had to be done via the Second Narrows crossing, as the Lions Gate Bridge would not be completed until a quarter-century later. But make it they did, and as often as they could. In my memory there never existed a sharper contrast than that between 725 Jervis Street (where we lived in 1935) and PiccadillyRoad South. I, as a four year-old, lacking the filter of language and experience, absorbed undifferentiatingly this difference, and so my longing for the place always set in the moment we set off for Vancouver. Appropriately, the people who built houses there did so to compliment their sun'oundings, never to better them. Henry Athelstan Stone was on of the first property owners in Caulfeild. In 1918, nine years after he bought his lot, he built “Stonehaven” at 4648 South Piccadilly Road. This is one of the most beautiful houses in West Vancouver, and makes a beautiful entry point to the village. Mr. Stone was ai’guably one of the most outstanding community members, both in Caulfeild and in Vancouver. He designed St. Francis- in-the-Wood and that church’s lych gate. In the same year that the Church was completed, Frederick Buscombe, a lumber executive and sometime mayor of Vancouver, completed the building of “Graystones”, at 4732 South Piccadilly. This house had a remarkable dormer, which was just above the front door. It had a rounded, shingle-covered top, and resembled a hugh alligator eye, peeping out just above the surface of the water. Pictured left: Henry Athelstan Stone and his brother, Charlie. (Photo courtesy Betty Vajda, his grand- daughter.)