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M, Sally Carswell - 7 Vest Vancouver Yacht Cluh grew end prospered, and is now an important part of the Vest Vancouver waterfront scene, with a new, enlarged Club House, a membership of nearly five hundred, end berths for two hundred and forty boats. This year they hosted the Pacific International Yacht- ing Association, with ysets from Sen Francisco up to Alaska and Vancouver 22 Island. In 195^, a swimming pool was built at Ambleside Park, by the Parks and Recreation Commission, and many West Vancouver children have learned to swim under the watchful eyes of the Parks Board instructors and life guards. In 1958, Municipality bought Glen Eagles Golf Club-~c pri- vately owned Club near horseshoe Bayâ€"end turned it into a public Golf 2'^ Course, available to all. " So, as West Vancouver grew, there was a concerted effort by the Council, and the residents to preserve the waterfront recreation areas, and to keep the tempo of life in Vest Vancouver relaxed and pleasant, but the proposed completion of the southern extension of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway was causing then some apprehension. The Pacific Great Eastern Railway was originally conceived in 1912, to ""unite ITorth Vancouver with the Grand Trunk Railway at Fort George, pro- 24 viding the Cariboo with an cutlet to the Coast Cities." in 1914, the sec- tion between Rorth Vancouver and Whytecliffe was completed, but by the time the construction of the section between Squamish and ^iuesnel was finished, the construction company was bankrupt and the Governnent took over the railway, which still lacked eighty miles of its proposed goal to Prince George, and the connecting link from Squamish to Whytecliffe; and it was not until 1936 that the line finally fulfilled its promise and connected Prince George to Rorth