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T H E BREAD LADY PART II CONTINUED faced with conscription or working in the North Vancouver Shipyards. In order to maintain the ski lodge he had worked so hard to establish, he chose the shipyards, where he could work all week, then hike up the mountain and work at the sM lodge all weekend. To fin the midweek void, he hired my mother to manage the ski lodge from Sunday night to Saturday morning, and her career as "Bread Lady" was over by Vincent Hernandez West Vancouver Historical Society 680- mh street. West Vancouver, BC, V7V-3T2 Phone: 778-279-2235 e-mail: wvhs@3haw.ca web-site: wvhs.ca It is Society policy: . that every effort is made to ensure that all articles are accurate but the Society takes no responsibUity for inaccuracies. · that opinions expressed in contributions and presentations are those of the author and are not necessarily those of the Society. · that excerpts from the newsletter must be attributed to "The West Vancouver Historical Society" and reproductions in whole or in part are not permitted without the express authorization of the Society. Volume Z9f Number 2 Summer ZOIZ time basis. A group of ladyschoolteachers called "the Girls", used the cabin on the weekends while we stayed below in a rough room we had constructed. There was never very much money, but there was enough to siuvive. The other seasons were more difficult, and money was very scarce. I can remember picking wild blueberries and trying to sell them to the stores in West Vancouver in order to supplement oiu" income. The hard part, when coining down the mountain on the rough trail, was to try to step softly using our legs as shock absorbers so that the lower layers WE G E T LETTERS In the last issue of "Memories" in the article on "Bas's Place" we of berries would not get crushed. I talked about Cbff Searle's Vernon am not sure, but I seem to Feed Store as being the site of an remember we received about ten cents a poimd for the berries if we could sell them. If we couldn't, they wo\ild be preserved so they coidd be later used for pie fillings or jam. The years from 1936 to 1939 were the years when my mother was the "Bread Lady" of Hollyburn Ridge. In some ways they were tough years, with the We received a letter from former West Van resident now hving in Australia Pam Anderson (Searle). Her father Alfred (AIQ and mother Eleanor Searle were owners of the Vernon Feed and Fuel Store in the early1940's. Pam recalls as a child that there early installation of West Van's first gas pump in 1923. Board Members President: Ann Brotisson Vice-President: vacant Past President: Jim Garter Treasurer: Marilyn Rhodes Secretary: Pam DaUk Membership: Wendy Topham Newsletter: David Barker Db'ectors: Yvonne Bower Rod Day Elaine Graham Don Grant Barbara Hvmter Rob Morris Heidi Neff Tom Wardell pages wolf never very far from the door, were cork and coal pUes. Her father was a mechanic and a but I don't remember them as being sad or miserable, just challenging. In fact, I remember it as a time when I learned a lot, and had a lot of fun. In 1939 World War H started and our life changed. Fred Jones was truck driver. During the war, coal coiildn't be supplied so the Vernon Feed Store was sold. A fellow called Monty bought the business where the Vernon Feed Store was located. y