Update on HoNyburn Lodge Renewal Project by Don Grant You may recall that in April of last year the Historical Society donated $10,000 to this project. These funds were set aside by a previous board over 15 years ago for this purpose, to be donated when the project was about to begin. H 44 4 A / : articles, newspaper clippings, and artifacts to HHS. A detailed history of Hollyburn Mountain began to emerge. Francis Mansbridge, assisted by Lois Enns, used material collected by HHS to write "Hollyburn: the Mountain & the City", which was published in 2009. After careful consideration of the options available, the main stakeholders in the project, Cypress Mountain, District of West Vancouver, Few could dispute that the original Hollyburn Ski Lodge was a venerable old building, loved by those whose connection with the lodge went back several decades and by those who visited it for the first time in recent years. Parents and grandparents made a point of bringing their children and grandchildren to see the lodge because, in part, it connected them to generations past and present. For Hollyburn seniors like myself, the lodge had been there through the different seasons of our lives. It is often said that people make a building a home. In this sense, to many of us who went back to it time and again, Hollyburn Lodge felt like home. Gordon and lola Knight and Bob and Greta Tapp, concerned about the deteriorating condition of the Lodge, created the Hollyburn Ski Camp Project in 1998, and formally established the Hollyburn Heritage Society in 2000 with a mandate to restore the lodge and collect the history of our local mountains. During the next decade, people who were active on Hollyburn in the 1920s, 30s, 40s and 50s donated thousands of photos, home movies, Hollyburn Ridge Association and Hollyburn Heritage Society, made a decision to rebuild the Lodge in its former image rather than restore it as the money needed for the project would have to come from fund-raising (restoration costs can be much higher than originally estimated). The cost of the rebuild was determined to be $1,100,000.00. Cypress Mountain committed $500,000, the District of West Vancouver $200,000 and BC Parks $100,000 towards the project.. In February2ol 5 the Hollyburn Lodge Renewal Committee launched a campaign to raise the remaining $300,000. As of mid-March 2016, $1,080,000 has been raised. In April 2015, the dismantling of Hollyburn Lodge began, revealing signatures carved into the cedar siding and beams during the early 1930s. Extensive rot in the foundation was also page 4