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/^^cccuL off 0<^ ßmtmmitif The photos above are illustrations of the long, narrow and \'aried band that make up West Vancou\er. It has traditionally been a collection of small communities originally connected by a rail line and later, roads. Top left is the old Municipal Hall in Hollyburn, to itsrightis Dundarave at 25th, next is Fisherman's Cove and on the right is Horseshoe Bay. Each was a thriving close knit community. Robert Watt is a graduate of West Van High. He is the former Director of the Vancouver Museum and was Chief Herald of Canada from 1988 to 2007. In 2008 he was awarded Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order by the Prince of Wales. The following is an except from a speech he made to the members of the West Vancouver Historical Society on November 9, 1982. (picture to the left - Marine Drive and 14th - 1914) One of the things that really strikes me, and partly because when I grew up here in thefifties,West Van was still a village in many ways, was the rural quality of the community, and it was also as well the psychological and the actual physical distance from the city of Vancouver. One of the things I read that quite intrigued me was in Rigley's Directory of 1922 which is in the City Archives and there is a note under the Whyteclifie section that the Dominion Government Telephone provided a three minute service from Vancou\er to Whytecliffe for thirty cents. In other words, page 5