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GLENEAGLES, WEST VANCOUVER A HISTORY That part of the District of West Vancouver which is known as "Gleneagles" was originally owned by Peter Larson, a resident of the District of North Vancouver. He was the proprietor of the North Vancouver Hotel, on the north side of Esplanade about a block west of Lonsdale Ave. It was a residential hotel, built by him in 1902, and a number of local families called it "home". In 1909 he also built and operated Canyon View Hotel at second canyon on the Capilano River, just above where Cleveland Dam is now located, and advertised at the time as "the finest tourist resort on the B.C. coast". The earliest records of the Municipality of West Vancouver date from 1912, the year of incorporation, and in the Assessment Roll for that year Peter Larson is shown as owner of District Lot 771, comprising 223 acres. This large tract encompassed all the waterfront from a point on the foreshore of the bay, due north of the west end of Eagle Island, to Garrow Bay. The north boundary was common to the south boundary of District Lot 430, the present-day north boundary of Gleneagles Golf Course. The eastern boundary was some 600 feet east of the present lo- cation of Marine Drive, comprising those properties which, to- day, lie on the west slope of Eagleridge subdivision. Mr. Larson became owner of the site shortly after the year 1900 when he acquired a Crown Grant of the land for a sum said to have been in the neighbourhood of $319.00. The western por- tion of the acreage, that part west of Marine Drive, was used by the Larson family as their ranch. When interviewed, in 1981, Mrs. Alma McRae, one of the Larson's daughters, was not sure whether there had been any development or buildings on the land prior to her father taking possession. But in any event he set about making improvements. A considerable acreage was cleared in the area just east and above the bay, later named Larson Bay, and several small buildings were erected including a caretaker s shack, barn, chicken house and blacksmith s shed and forge