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Telephone Development - cont*d, establishing of a local service and was the B.C.Telephone Company’s first agent when an exchange was opened. Even prior to the incorporation of the municipality in 1912, Mr. Lawson had a telephone in West Vancouver. It was in his real estate office at the foot of Seventeenth Street,Hollyburn, on the site where he and his little family of pioneers had landed from a rowboat in 1907. The telephone was given service through a toll line, Mr. Lawson using it in connection with his real estate business. After the municipality became incorporated a local telephone system was considered desirable. There were 13 names on the original petition for telephone service and Mr. and Mrs. Lawson tripled that number in one day by canvassing the community. When they found they were still four short of the desired number required by the Telephone Company to open an exchange, Mr. Lawson offered to take the extra four telephones himself, but the company established the service without insisting on that. Mr. Lawson was appointed agent for the company. The first switchboard was in his office, adjoining the post office at Hollyburn, and he served as postmaster and telephone operator at the same time. West Vancouver now has a direct telephone connection with Vancouver through a submarine cable laid in 1923. The British Columbia Telephone Company’s present commercial agent is Miss Barbara Allwork, daughter of a former chief operator. The chief operator now is Miss Mary Carmichael, and the man in charge of plant is A. F. Gibson. Emergency phones were - Police____West 45, Fire Dept â€" West 400, Inhalator W.Van______ West 45, Inhalator Caulfeild....West 609. Another article from the past, History-Onics January 1987. Memories of Hadden Hall by Barbara Johnson. In West Vancouver, in the early 1920’s, there was one very favourite place to hike up the hill and picnic. Our goal was Hadden Hall. This Eden-like place was on the mountainside near Capilano River, west of what is now known as Cleveland Dam. Any pleasant day in summer or winter, we would pack up a picnic lunch and walk up the hill from where we lived at 1and Inglewood. We would proceed through the woods, about where Taylor Way is now. What a thrill to see the Hadden home, abandoned Page 4 Cont’d. next column Hadden Hall-cont*d. at that time, but, as we peeked in the windows, we could see the beautiful furnishings and rugs, paneled walls and luxurious bedroom. The fireplace with its stone mantel! the perfectly equipped kitchen! and the garden! Enchantingly done in Japanese style, with little bridges built over many small creeks on the property. The exotic plants and bushes were all a riot of colour in Spring, Summer and Fall. We would sit in a sunny spot by one of the streams and eat our lunch, playing over in our minds the Hall’s romantic history. Mr. Harvey Hadden had come over from England in 1891 and invested in property in Vancouver. Twelve years later, in 1903, Mr. Hadden fell in love with a 160 acre tract of land on the side of Hollyburn Ridge, overlooking the Capilano River. Here he planned and built his honeymoon home to which he hoped to bring his bride. According to the stories of that time, his wife took one look at this wilderness residence and turned her back on it permanently. As far as we knew neither Harvey Hadden or his wife ever returned. Year by year the neglect was more evident as the garden went back to nature. The house was broken into and, visit by visit, we found the place denuded of its furnishings, and broken floors and wall destroyed and ruined. On our last picnic there was little left but the fireplace, and vandals had used the panels from the walls to burn there. It was heart- breaking to see the gradual erosion of this dream home, and our hopes that perhaps some day the bridal couple might return. Finally, some careless camper left enough fire going to burn the place down. The land reverted to West Vancouver for taxes, and the house was almost forgotten until British Properties bought the land including Hadden Estate, in 1931. Capilano Golf course was one of their developments and the Club House was built on the very spot where Hadden Hall had once stood. Our favourite picnic spot was gone forever but it will last a lifetime, at least in one memory. Editor’s note: If any of our readers can supply further information or detail about Hadden Hall, please put it on paper and mail it to the Society. Omnium Gatherum finis