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^^SIDE BY SIDE^^ By Sandra McGillivray Ortgies McGillivrav wedding photo October 4, 1941 West Vancouver was a thriving community of over seven thousand people when Dad, Stuart Allan (Pat) McGillivray met Mom, Eleanor Rebecca Lennox in 1939. The year Lions' Gate Bridge was officially opened by King George and Queen Elizabeth during a Royal Tour. Dad moved to Vancouver from Chilliwack and then to West Vancouver in 1938 when Sam Garvin hired him to be branch manager for Garvin Ice and Fuel located in that triangle of land where Esquimalt Avenue ran into Marine Drive near 22"^ Street. Dad, 29 years old, and his staff were responsible for the Garvin's customers who lived as far west as Horseshoe Bay, and east to Deep Cove. He was all over the North Shore in the company service truck, a 1935 white Ford coupe that had been converted to a small pickup truck. Dad rented a room in a house near 14*^ and Bellevue, played rugby for the North Shore All Blacks,and being a friendly, "never met a stranger" kind of person, quickly settled into the community. Mom came to West Vancouver from Hearne, Saskatchewan with her family in 1925 when she was fifteen years old. Her parents, Fred and Annie Lennox, bought the lot at 2211 Bellevue for $300., and built a three-story house with a wide verandah and sweeping Page 6 Cont'd. next column. '^SIDE BY SIDE'^ - cont d. view of Burrard Inlet to Point Atkinson Lighthouse. Mom was the eldest, then her brothers. Max and Wilf. Harold was born at this home in 1926. Mom graduated in a class of seventeen from West Vancouver High School at Inglewood and 17‘^ in 1928. Photographs of early graduating classes are now at the Senior Secondary School on Mathers. She went right to work at the Royal Bank of Canada at Marine and 17*^ as a teller; the first woman hired by the manager, Mr. Chilton, at this branch. Twice a day she'd walk from home, either along Marine to Ambleside or along Bellevue, chatting with Mrs. Kathleen Hobson who also walked to work. Mrs. Hobson, along with her son, Robert, owned West Vancouver Stationary store in the 1600 block of Marine. Mom and her friend, Violet McNair, belonged to the local tennis club on Fulton, between 21st and 22"^ streets, where the group would play doubles matches on Sunday afternoons. She liked going to the movies in Vancouver on the small passenger ferries that departed from the pier at the foot of 14‘h Street. But she especially enjoyed the beach, hiking in West Van., and day trips with friends to Bowen Island via the Sannie ferry from Horseshoe Bay. Now Dad did the company banking at the Royal Bank, so Mom knew who he was, and when he'd see her walking along Marine Drive past Garvin's on her way to work, he'd pull up in the service truck and ask her if she’d like a ride. Well, she did, and that was when the romance began. Games of golf at Gleneagles, drives to Whytecliff Park, movies at the Hollyburn Theatre, and dinners with the Lennox family followed. They were married by Reverend Stevens on Mom's birthday, October 4‘^ 1941. The wedding was in the United Church on Esquimalt Avenue with a reception following at Horseshoe Bay. Dad had borrowed a car and they were off to Vernon for their honeymoon, returning later in October to settle in at 2678 Marine Drive. I was born in 1942 and my brother, Allan, in 1944 when Dad and Mom were renting a house in the 2300 block of Mathers from Roy and Nettie Borthwick. One of my earliest memories is of Dad shooting a cougar that was stalking our bantam chickens in the backyard. Cont'd. page seven.