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Streets, Avenues and Thoroughfares - cont'd. Renaming existing streets, particularly where the 'old' names did not conform with the new systematic naming and numbering system. The adopted system gave the 'Avenues' names in alphabetical order from A (Argyle) to Z (Zephyr). The 'Streets' were given numbers, eventually, to Street. To the great puzzlement of many, there never has been a or Street. Nor, in that original by-law was there 8**^, or 10*^ Street, although these did come later. Unique among the numbered streets is 17^^ Street, which at 100 feet in width is the widest of the streets. This was the work of John Lawson, who envisaged Lawson Avenue, as it was first known, as a grand entrance to the community and not incidentally to his lands, leading up from the ferry wharf then at the foot of that street, Lawson also built a concrete sidewalk from the waterfront to Marine Drive, the first in West Vancouver. In an interview with Rupert Harrison in 1980, Helen Colpitts, who came to West Vancouver with her family in 1910, reported that her father told her "...that the pioneers were given the opportunity of helping to name the avenues which were alphabetically from Argyle..." This may help to explain the lack of a common theme to the names. West Vancouver's Historic Neighbourhoods CAULFEILD; "About 1898, Mr. Francis William Caulfeild, was visiting the west coast of Canada from his native Cornwall in England. On a trip on a small passenger steamer, operated by Captain Cates of North Vancouver, Mr. Caulfeild was much impressed by (the) landscape (and) the small cove he viewed from the ship and before returning to England he left instructions and authority with Miss Leigh Spencer to purchase, on his behalf, some 440 acres along the waterfront. Later she purchased another 220 acres. Shortly after 1900, Mr. Caulfeild came out from England on an extended visit to plan and supervise the development of his estate. He personally chose his own family name for the estate and began selling homesites fronting on the contoured road he had laid out across the hillside. In 1914, when the railway line came through the area, 'Caulfeild' was the name of the station. In his"A Short History of Caulfeild Village", H. A. Stone, a friend of Mr. Caulfeild and the purchaser of one of the first three lots sold in Caulfeild, imagined what Mr. Caulfeild's thoughts must have been when he surveyed what Was to become his village. "Here is a spot they shall not spoil. I will plan a Cont'd. next column. Historic Neighbourhoods - cont^d, village of good design according to the contours of nature. I will reserve the entire waterfront as a public park for the estate. I will lay the foundations of a village of beauty with wise restrictions". Francis Caulfeild died in 1934 at age 94. DUNDARAVE: (doon daa raav): "Initially the lands lying between 23^^ Street and 26^*^ Street, from highwater mark for a distance of 18 blocks north was owned by a Russell E. MacNaughton of North Vancouver, known as District Lot 555. The MacNaughton family were distantly related to the family by that name who, as early as the 12‘i' century were proprietors of land in Argyll, Scotland. About 1267, Gilchrist MacNaughton, son of Malcolm MacNaughton was granted, by Alexander 111, the castle and island of Fraoch Eileen in Loch Awe. In addition tothis castle in Loch Awe, gilchrist also possessed Dunderave Castle on Loch Fyne, which is still in use. In 1911 Russell MacNaughton subdivided his land in West Vancouver, naming the subdivision 'Dundarave'. The name was soon applied to the railway station at 25‘‘' Street and also became the name of a grocery store at the SE corner of 25‘^^ Street and Marine Drive."The name Dunderave is of Gaelic origin. It has been suggested that it means either 'The Knoll on the promontory' or else 'The Castle of the Two Oars'. The latter is the most likely given the castle's location on the shore of Loch Fyne. Russull MacNaughton was a professor at the University of British Columbia. SHERMAN ISANDY COVEl: "The legal description for the land in this local area was District Lot 559, An early land owner and resident was Mrs. Rose Sherman, wife of Mr. Alfred H. She rman who, at the time was manager of A. H. Sherman Ltd. Dealers in wholesale and retail fish products in Vancouver. And he may have had an interest in the nearby 'Defiance' fish cannery, which later was acquired by the Millerd family and renamed Great Northern Cannery." In the mid 1960's the Great Northern Cannery site was acquired by the Federal Government who established a fisheries research station there. The easterly edge of Sherman is roughly where Sharon Dive meets Marine Drive. On the west, Sherman's D. L. 559 abuts Cypress Park's D. L. 582 at about the west boundary of the present fisheries research station. The Sherman Post Office occupied a small building on the south side of Marine Drive near the intersection with Sherman Street. nnnn Page6