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-.1 - I'ior is any mention made in the Minutes of the .1 board until August 1908^' of the building of a pilot station near the fc^nnore’s anchorage in Skunk Gove, though an early photograph'of the station dates it as approx. 1894* ^Apparently an informal agreement vtas drawn up between the .pilots who appear to have built the station themselves, and J. Balfour Ker and his v/ife, who in the l890s owned the land upon which the building was erected, an agreement that continued after 1898 when Frqncis W. Caulfeild bought the land,and by which the pilots paid the owner $1.00 per month they could not take the land^*^. From this it v/ould seem that the station was built in the latter half of the 1890s but unfortunately, no accurate record remains of its ’»date of birth*’. Alongside the pilot station, in a cleft in the rocks, a boathouse house was built which is visible in some of the earlier photographs. It v;as constructed largely of driftwood^ and the cove in front of it was protected by a log- boom from the flotsam and jetsam so familiar to V/eSt Vancouver beaches. Early photographs shov; the pilotage as a smallish cottage, built on a beautiful rocky promontory from which 1. Minute Book, Yale and New V/estminster Pilotage Authority, op.cit 2. Major J.S. Matthews, Early Vancouver, Yol.III^ op.cit. P. 3o5 Conversation with VMA. Grafton, 24th Piarch, 1934* 3. Major J.S. Matthews - notes of a conversation with V/.A. Grafton, 24th April, 1941, Vancouver City Archives.