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Hodgson Family Photographs by Reto Tschan, West Vancouver Archivist This spring, a large project is nearing completion at the West Vancouver Archives. Thanks in part to funding over the past two years from the West Vancouver Historical Society, a substantial portion of the Hodgson family photographs have been described and made available online. Hugh Hodgson (1880 1965) was a West Vancouver architect who designed Inglewood and Pauline Johnson schools along with many homes and buildings in West Vancouver. After Hugh and his wife Gertrude's deaths in 1965, their daughter Beatrice Hodgson, continued to live in the family home until she died in 2004. A well known violinist and music teacher, she left behind a house much like a museum, filled with historical artefacts and archival materials from throughout her family's lives including over a thousand photographs and negatives. -- from various family members overseas. As the family may be able to identify many of the subjects of the photographs it was timely to make some of the material available online in order to encourage their input. The photographs offer a unique insight into not only the Hodgson family, but into West Vancouver as it was. While elements of Hugh Hodgson's architectural career are well represented, it is the family's domestic world that is best captured. Whether the photographs depict the striking home-made fashions worn by Gertrude, Beatrice and family friend Maisie Jack, idyllic times spent on the beach, or fancy-dress costume, the photographs are full of interest. Beatrice Hodgson posing in the back yard as Britannia 030.WVA.HOD (more family photos in Extras section) The processing of these photographs has been a priority for the Archives as many are nitrate-based and thus highly prone to deterioration. Additionally, there is interest Descriptions of a large number of the photographs in the fonds, as well as a number of digitized images, are available at the archives' website at: archives.westvancouver.ca page 7