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WESTVANCOUVER MEMOREES page3 Dundarave - F r o m "Cottages to Community" days of Dundarave is an extractfam tlie Society's up-coming book Cottages to Community mjbiiowmg on the early \ by Francis Mansbridge. Unlike Ambleside, in which John Lawson and William Thompson implemented their vision, Dundarve grew from the interests and diverse personsdities of a variety of its early visitors and residents. A good number of those who initially visited for good times in the summer stayed to create community where work and play were well balanced. Unsubstantiated reports of coal originally gave this area the name of Newcastle. R.E. McNaughton, who owned the land between 23rd and 26th Streets to a distance of eighteen blocks north, named the waterfront west of Ambleside after his ancestral home Dundarave Castle in Loch Fine, Argyleshire, Scodand. Most of die early more permanent residents were loggers. Marr Creek's namesake George Marr established a camp in 1903 on the site of the present Beach House restaurant at Dundarave pier. Cypress Lumber Company's operations, which started in 1916, were purchased by Nasmyth Logging Company in July 1918, which built a shingle mill at the foot of 27th on the southwest corner of Marine and 27th. But from its earliest days Dundarave was much more a place to holiday and relax on its many beaches, a place to escape the big smoke of industrial Vancouver. In 1922 summer campers and cottagers swelled the three hundred permanent residents to a thousand. Tents ended about 25th Street, where Dundarave pier was completed in 1915. It was an easy ferryridefrom Vancouver. Jack Cruickshank and his friends were typical of those who found the beach area a congenial place for a summer getaway. In 1918 this group of young men pitched a large tent at 17th Street and Fulton Avenue, on the site of the current Municipal Hall. In 1920 they moved to the waterfront 500 yards west of the Dundarave pier where they spent carefree summers, commuting to their work in Vancouver They called their tent the "Kennel", and themselves the "Hounds". All had maroon tuitleneck sweaters with blue and white trim, \vith each sweater sporting a large yellow letter of the Hounds' name. In 1920 they organized the West Vancouver Amateur Swimming Club with Dick Clarke thefirstpresident, and helped start the Dundarave Regatta. DUNDARAVÌE Old-Time REGATTA SATURDAY, Aug. 24th LIST O F E V E N T S ""-^ñfüi'ü'cs"- T h e H o u n d s - H a r r y Thorley, W a l l y Hunter, J a c k C r u i c k s h a n k , B i U Strang, TBlin McGiUi^T'a ^r &'HBfrBaUantyné - ori thè steps o f MSwi Cypress Park o n a Sunday atternoon c i r c a 1921 - 022.WVA.Cr'u --5r