FROM "COTTAGES TO COMMUNITY" - HORSESHOE BAY The area became more accessible with the Cottage Inn, remained in operation under different opening of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE) managements until the late 1960's. in 1914 and the Marine Drive extension in 1926; some visitors became yearround residents, although most businesses remained summer only To get here, some took Lew Hall's Horseshoe Bay taxi - for fifteen cents he would drive you from the end of the PGE line to the hotel, dance hall, and tea rooms on the beach in his canvas-roofed Chevrolet 490 touring car. About 1917, Miss Gwladys Davies and Mrs. Dalgleish established their Blue Dragon Inn on the northeast corner of Bruce and Royal, kitty-corner from Herbert Thorpe's home and store (now occupied by a Subway outlet). As Margaret Fox describes in her pamphlet Chai-Hai: a Look at the PasL "The two ladies would meet the train with their Model T Ford...One lady drove the car while the other would honk the horn." Miss Davies was the first woman councillor in West Vancouver (1924-26), and was deputy provincial commissioner of the Girl Guides for ten years. Their hotel, renamed the 7e Cottage Inn, located at 6612 royalAvenue, 1943 0723.WVA.PHO WHERE CAN I BUY "COTTAGES TO COMMUNITY"?! Present sales venues are: · the Book Launch at the Library on September 15th · Gertrude Lawson House on Sept 17th and 24th -11 am to 5 pm · Gleneagles Rec Centre - Sept 26 to Oct I - ID am to 2 pm · the Spirit Gallery · the Avant Gardner · Rogers Chocolates - Park Royal Village · West Van Seniors Centre dates to be announced · Park Royal South - pre Xmas · Pumpkin Fest - Seniors Centre - Oct 15 and 16 ·Caulfeild Pharmasave · Red Horses in Dundarave · the SiUc Purse (PE. Trussell), Dulcie Robinson (Mrs H. Nesbitt), Marion Almas, Effie. Wenmouth (Mrs. Norton Toung), Mrs. Ella Tabor (Mrs. Provencal), Winnie. Tabor, Charles McDonald, Carl Davis, Brealey, Muriel Johnston, Daisy Brealey, Everett Davis, Harry Nesbitt, ?BerL Ethel Millard, Edna Bums, (Mrs. C.A. (R .A J Thompson., Greenwood), Florence Thompson^ Eag/e Harbour Girls Camp 1624.WVA.RAH PAGE 9