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W E S T V A N C O U V E R S C H O O L D I S T R I C T 45 C O L L E C T I O N by Carol Howie The West Vancouver Archives' School District 45 Collection includes many thousands of records compromising formal student, class and staff portraits, school activities and school construction photographs, documents, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, school yearbooks and ephemera. The majority of the material was collected by the West Vancouver Historical Society and later transferred to the West Vancouver Archives. Current and former students and teachers have also donated material. The West Vancouver Archives was very pleased to be the recipient of a grant funded by the successful sale of the West Vancouver Historical Society's book. Cottages to Community. The grant enabled us to re-house portions of the School District 45 collection in archival quality envelopes and boxes, describe a selection of the material in the Archives' online database, and digitize key textual material and photographs. The digital collection is now available at archives.westvancouver.ca and contains over 460 scanned photos and the West Vancouver High School Book of Honour, which commemorates the students and teachers of the school who served in the Second World War (this book used to be in front of the gym entrance of the old West Van High on Inglewood). Twelve photos from this collection will be found on pages 4 and 5 of this issue of Memories. H O R S E S H O E BAY F E R R Y B O O K PROJECT by J i m Carter Last Spring, when the Society was planning speakers for the coming year, it was agreed that a talk on the colourful history of the ferries of Horseshoe Bay would be an interesting local topic. The decision was taken to approach BC Ferries for someone to talk on the subject. When the terminal was called we were referred to the Public Relations Office in Victoria. They said they would try to find someone for the talk. After two months they phoned to say that they could not find anyone to speak on the subject. An idea was born. Why not write a brief history on the subject and have the author speak on the findings. Initially we contacted Bruce McArthur and Jeanette Keller, both long time residents of Horseshoe Bay They met with us and produced some excellent information to begin our search. Bruce serves on the Liaison Committee with the Ferry Corporation and Jeanette was one of the initial employees of Blackball Ferries and had experience, with her husband, in running a water taxi service in the Bay Bruce searched the internet and found some resources that will become part of the basis for the small book. Jeanette produced pictures and names which will be followed up for some of the personal background that makes such histories so interesting. It soon became apparent that we needed some expert help. We contacted Francis Mansbridge and asked if he would like to become involved in the project. He accepted and was delighted to help. Shortly after, we contacted John Moir to ask if he would act as "curator" of the pictures for the project. Again he accepted the challenge with pleasure. Early on francis and John gave a talk to the Society on their initial findings. Since then the writing is nearly complete and the pictures have been gathered. The designer of "Cottages to Community", Colleen Wood, was contacted and has agreed to design the "Ferries" book. A number of other members of the team that produced "Cottages" have also joined our project. Bruce Young who handled distribution and inventory control and Dave Barker, our publicist, joined . Most of our key retail outlets have agreed to sell the new book. The effort is being funded by a grant from the Book Fund of the Historical Society which will be repaid from sales. Presently we are negotiating with two printers to determine the best price and quality Our target is to have the book ready for the Christmas season in early November. However, it is too early to set a precise dart for the launch (stay tuned). We are hoping to price the book at $20 in order to make it a perfect and affordable gift for Christmas. We believe that the many travellers who have used the various ferries over the last 100 years will find the book a valuable addition to their library page 3