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 1 M. Sally Caravell. “ /e 'jlD-b (J-cH3> 2. mMmM U BP,ARY rD]^P!^m:e[Tif^5| ljtj.E;ifLb!jlJibi?J^i rnbY'!'] V KOT TO EE TAKEli FROJA THIS BUILDINQ WEST VANCOUVER'S CHANOIFG WATEKFROIIT AREA The District of th.o Municipality of Wast Vancouvar was incorpor- ated in 1912# Scratching along the coast of Burrard Inlat, hetwean the mountains and the sea, it is renowned for its natural beauty. For many years it was a quiet, wooded retreat, accessible only by water, but with the advent of improved transportation it changed to a fashionable suburb, complete with large modern shopping complexes, a ferry terminal, end tall apartment buildings bordering its shoreline. John Lawson and his family were the first white settlers of the area, arriving in 190? from adjacent North Vancouver, which had been in^ corporated into the City of North Vancouver that year, John Lawson, ro'aFed his family, and his cow, through the Narrows, and settled at first in Navvy Jack’s old abandoned cabin at the mouth of the Capilain River.^ He cultivated a farm, and built a house for his family on the waterfront, where today the John Lawson Park honours his mefory. Here, the Lawson family lived a peace- ful and relatively isolated existence. Separated from the growing city of Vancouver by four miles of incredibly blue w§ter, the Lawson family, "would row to Prospect Point on a fine Sunday, drag their boat up on the beach, climb the cliff, and walk through Stanley Park to the service in St, Andrews church on Richards St," ^ B C In 1909 tha/6overnment built Eollyburn Pier at l?th Ave., and in 1910, John Lawson, together with three other shareholdersâ€"W.C. Thompson, John Sinclair and Robert McPhersonâ€"formed the West Vancouver Ferry Co,, and a 710.09 W51cw