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late as 1925 I recall visiting the site with my father, a recog- nized ornithologist, who,in his continuing study of birds, their nests and habits, searched for and found the nest and eggs of a pair of Towhees, a species that habitually make their nest on the ground in hay or dried grass in the shelter of low bushes. By 1909 the area surrounding Horseshoe Bay had been acquired by the West Shore and Northern Land Co. Ltd. headed by "Colonel" Albert Whyte. The title was an honourary one accorded him at the time he was in charge of the Tacoma Fusiliers. Much of the land south and west of Horseshoe Bay and on into Garrow Bay, Batchelor Bay and Copper Cove was subdivided by the company into small size lots. Although a fair number of these properties had been sold to speculators others, with their own means of access by their sail or power boats, purchased sites for sum- mer cottages for their own family use. But it was obvious to the developers of "White Cliff Townsite", as it was named, that the project would not be a success without better means of ac- cess . At about the same time there was talk of a railway line from the north shore of Burrard Inlet to the interior of the Prov- ince. One route was proposed via the valley of Seymour Creek in North Vancouver and another via the North Arm of the Inlet, both routes passing through Squamish. The latter was being promoted by the Vancouver and Northern Railway in 1909; an- other, by way of the north shore of Burrard Inlet and Howe Sound, was being promoted by the Howe Sound, Pemberton and Northern Railway. Neither came to fruition. But by 1912 another syndicate, headed by Messrs. Foley, Welsh and Stewart, had succeeded in persuading the Provincial Govern- ment to pass legislation authorizing and empowering the Pacific Great Eastern Railway to construct and operate a line of rail- way from Vancouver to North Vancouver and thence to Fort George. Construction started in 1913 and by January 1, 1914, rails were laid from Lonsdale Ave. in North Vancouver to 25th Street in Dundarave. Later that year the line was completed to "Whyte_