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Observations bv Barrie Gillmore - cont’d. PGE locomotive. The theme was “Squamish or Bust”. As it turned out the May Day Parade was rained out but nevertheless the crew persevered and held their own parade the following weekend. Great quantities of Tiddley Cove Tea were consumed, fun was had by all (with no accidents to report) and to top it off the Fraternity received a special Award. T?w Rrst May Day Float Recollections of West Vancouver News Weekly Delivery Bov in 1941 By Tom Taylor My first job was as a paper boy for the West Vancouver News, which was a weekly that appeared each Thursday afternoon. I inherited the job from Brent Langley, who was the brother of Art, later Mayor of West Vancouver. Why he would abandon a job delivering over two hundred papers yielding a seventy-five cent weekly wage was a matter I never questioned. There were two hundred and four papers to deliver to two hundred non-subscribing households. Only four were paid subscribers, who paid less than 2^ per copy per week. I was part of a business practice that puzzles me to this day. For at least the first year I did my part in providing “complete coverage”. The job started at around four o;clock, and didn’t finish until close to 8:00pm. If I forgot a delivery the “customer” called Captain Francis F. Lovegrove, the editor and publisher, who would then call me and dispatch me to the neglected household. It took almost a year for me to learn who would complain to the office if their paper failed to arrive on their doorstep. (Those overlooked would often telephone the good captain at home to complain.) The only “customer” not on my route proper was a local realtor and secretary of the local ration board by the name of R. P. Blower (who told us in the spring of 1943 that our Canning Sugar Ration would be limited to 11 pounds per person!), whose office was in the “Hay Block” at 1405 MarineDrive (the northwest corner of 14**» and Marine Drive). His office was in one of four suites in the little (Cont’d. next column) Recollections - cont’d. building owned by George Hay, an Inglewood Avenue resident, also in the real estate business. Mr. Blower was always an affable man, and invariably pleasant toward me. He was a pigeon fancier, and had a very large pen for them in his yard. In it was an impressive array of Tumblers, Homing Pigeons and White Kings. Such a collection would look good in our yard, I thought at the time. It might just have been under a year that my part in the“complete coverage” programme began to falter. The 20<j^ per hour pay might have had to do with it. I began to wonder how I might augment these less-than-modest earnings, and it came to me that perhaps some of the local merchants might be enjoined to help me out. Mrs. Hine, who ran Ethel’s Confectionery at 119 14*^ Street was clearly not approachable, and certainly, Messrs. Kristiansen and Bigg of “The Handyman” and “Ferry Shoe Repair” respectively, were out of the question. The remaining, and obvious, target was the “Ambleside Lunch” (a.k.a. “The Ambleside Tea Room”. Mrs. Heckel, the proprietrix, employed a young man with considerable resourcefulness and imagination, so it was to him I turned. “How would it be if each week you left twenty papers for me to sell?” he asked. “I would keep half and you would keep half.” It was an eminently suitable arrangement, and won approval on the spot. The result of that transaction was that my newspaper income immediately increased by 25% and sometimes more. Recollections of West Vancouver News Weekly Delivery Boy in 1941 will continue in the next issue. Park Royal Shopping Centre shortly after opening, looking north towards Sentinel Hill. FaU 1950 “Once asain readers are Invited to..........” Submit articles, ideas, photographs and suggestions on the past history of West Vancouver families, schools, churches, commercial ventures and anything else that you may consider of interest to our readers All items, articles and photographs will be very welcome. You may submit these to the attention of “Peter” - E-mail: strelka@telus.net or fax number 604-922-0005. Page 8