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West Van Archives' May Day Collection by Carol Howie, Acting Archivist May Day celebrations were a significant community event in West Vancouver from the 1930's to the early 1970's. The first official West Vancouver May Day celebration was held on Victoria Day, May 24, 1931. The tradition continued until 1973, after which the celebration was moved to the first Saturday of June and was renamed Community Day. The West Vancouver Archives' May Day Collection includes nearly 400 photographs, a film, onginal documents such as a decorated register of participants that spans the entire duration of May Days, programmes. May Queens' speeches, scrapbooks and the May Day Committee's records and correspondence. The material was collected by the West Vancouver Historical Society from a wide variety of donors and later transferred to the West Vancouver Archives. Earlier this year, the West Vancouver Archives was very pleased to be awarded one of the first grants funded by the successful sale of the West Vancouver Historical Society's book. Cottages to Community. The grant enabled us to re-house the entire May Day collection in archival quality envelopes and boxes, describe all the material in the Archives' online database, and digitize key textual material and photographs. The collection is now available at archives.westvancouverca and contains over 200 scanned photos and over 250 scanned pages of text, including the decorated register of participants, programmes and May Queens' speeches. The poster shown above was created by the May Day Committee as a memento of the crowning of May Queen Margaret Curry on May 24, 1934. It features fifteen photographs of various May Day events and is an excellent example of the variety of photographs available in the May Day collection. Dhoto 187.WVA.MDC page 11