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001C98E4 si I 4 l A 'Wee e. y '.8'ews sa hei. I . Circulating $1.00.per year. in~'the "District of West ~Uancouner-- Ambleside, Hollyburn, Weston, Cypress Park, &sCaulfeild,'iWhytecliff, Etc. Dundarave Newsstands 5c per Copy V I IV'«EIGHT PAGES 'I HOLLYBURN P.O., WEST VANCOUVER, B.C.Vol; IV'o +EIGHT PA e u greco ~ es ancouVer ~ a iano'i e In the average sized Canadian town the great majority of in Four Weeksresidents live! close to their places of ~business, the outside1't f distance being about one mile. The same is true of the Old Country and the United States. When anyone'rought Rapid progress has been made 'I up in a small town goes to a big city,to earn'a living, one of on the construction of ~-the new h d t th t which he must, accustom himself is the bridge over the Capilano, and we 1distance to be trave e ai y o ab t 11 d daily to and from the office or factory. are informed authoritative y 1 tl morning and until he has become that it will be, ppen fpr graffjc accustomed to it, heifinds the journey'tiring, especially iat within foul weeks at the la night. 'He notices however,,that his fellow eommuters take A considerable amount pf rpck ll s a matter of:course and in at few months&he himself is being used to repair, the Keith Road, which is to be open to all'ecomes even as they. traffic on Sunday.A d d or two ago Vancouver was only a fair sized city.eea e o corn into i theirPoint Grey and our other suburbs had not come into pwn, and the majority of the population lived close in. That conditionihasibeen somewhat rapidly changing theilast few @HEREON TUESDAY WEEK years, and now a'great'many of those svhose business'takes them daily to the city, traveltlong distances. Vancouver has, Under the auspjees pf the Westh,' ~ ' b gunito be a" big city and there. is a'dis- Vancouver Ratepayers'Asspcia- tli 't'any, who live in|these suburbs to grumb.e .; tion E. A. Cleveland will give an at the time takeniup in, travellingiback and forth tto,theii address, on Tuesday week, 18th ., Ippsition among many,'w o places of business. We even hear people speak sometimes of the February, in the Iriglewpod audi time consumed in going from West Vancouver Ito town, andIII torium, taking I as his subjec .yet our, ferries consistently and every day.make it in twenty- "The Work of the Greater Van- five minutesibetween dock and dock. What~is really'at the&/ )couverWaterEoard." Mr Clove IIIback of 'the complaints is the fact ithat many residentsi of land is the greatest authority on , Greater sVancouver have not yet become accustomeditoIbig "'the'Pacific Coast in'all matters city conditions. London and New York commuters i travel iIi / connected with water supply, and thji.ty and fprty miles in and out of town everyday and think in view of, our present;unsatis: nothing of it.i AIany Torontonians live all the,way from fifteen factory,water situatiori,'his lee- ~i,to thirty, miles from their,:places of tbusiness, and never give yIture should be peculiarly~inter: the matter a'hought. It's accepted'as a& fact "by'them', as esting. The meeting is called for by all~ dwellers in~ big» cities, that ithose,who'want freshl air . 8 p. m. )i and hoines away from the smoke and dirt and noise of a down- i town section must be prepared to pay for it'by early rising and I NORTH VAN B OF T a daily journey. V ASK FOR NORTH SHORE . It is a matter of some interest that&Vancpuvei gems des-, - @ -- - JcOIN+ ppz&gflITTEF irtincd,'to toiler'Iv Toronto in~having.twv'choice "t'e'iu.nlial&sec-' ' tions, one fairly close in and the other strung out along a high: The 'NprthqVaneouver Bpai way at some distance from. the heart of the business section. -- -"In the case of Toronto there is Rosedale, a'high class sub:, endeavoring to form a joint corn urb situated~ within two miles of the'heart oflthe city, and "; mittee with the West Vancouver another sector of equally fine homes situatedf'on and intthe Board of Trade for the purpose vicinity of the Toronto-HamiltonI highway all "the way from pf fprming a prpgiam fpr Port Credit~toiOakville. When&it is remembered tthat'Port e„sujng year designed( fpi t Credit is fifteen miles west of the centre of Toronto and! Oak- attraction of- industries, advance- ville is fifteen miles again further west, some concePtion'can}l~ ) ment and development pf be formed of ithe distances travelled=alii'as a matter. of North, Shor -and.the thor'ugh course--'by those living in these suburbs. I~i advei4ising of i this territoi~. In,Vancouver. we have Shaughnessy Heights corresponding They were ~ appt cachingto&Rosedale, andt instead of ithe Toronto-Hamilton j highway i~three Npt th North Shore coun" and the Port Credit -'Oakville suburbs there is our own Marine,i c,ls t ass,.st;n t»s work an{iDrive, andi the different sections of iWest vancouver from ',„e„ld,be ]ad if the IWest Capllano to Whytecliff. It niust be lemembered that Marine I "'" ll would appointDrive as a real first class highway was only eomPleted~la&t ~,two or, three members to sit on ~ r y summer,-and since then it has been little used owing to the I closing of the CaPilano Bridge. The oPening of this bridge in plied that i if [the bpaid wputhe immediate future;will undoubtedly result in'a very rapid f, di pp ) f the aggrowth in our diferent areas, and in a few short years Marine I~ Of ltheii ~eet,ngs they wpu]d-'Drive'and the adjacent sections will be-built uP alllthe way leonsldel sending a delagatlpn toto Whytecliff. 'By that time the people of Vancouver will have become accustomed to big city conditions, and with the prob- able opening of a motor ferry from Horseshoe Bay to Gibsons 1 Landing it is altogether likely that in time many.Vancouver ggparfl(Of, Trafle 'i business men,will&have their homes at points farther up.the I I coast. I'RCE SEI IVOOD ASVINS -- . HOLLYBURN HAI,I, = The adjourned annual general 'PRINCETON FELLOWSHIP meeting of the West Vancouver Board of Trade~ took place last Monday evening in Colonel Sav- The many fliends pf plelee dless next tsunday ~evening at vry'8 office„when thel.e was a Selwood will be delighted to hear 7.30 o'lock in the Hollybuin hall, i'ood attendance pf members. of his recent success in winning 14th and Duchess.- Mr. Miller is . The electiori of officers result- a National &Research Fellowship a talented I speaker, and those,'e:1 as follows: «t Princeton University. He had xvho go to hear him will listen tp Hon. President--Reeve J. B. Ley- al distinguished career i at ithe 'a message which they can cari'resident--Lieut. Colonel K. W.University of B.'C. and soon aft: away and think over. There is t.Savplv terwaids was awarded a fellow- np collection, and all a e 1 V'e President--AV. D;ckinspn. ship at the University of Illiil- Secretary--H, A. Farr. ojs. 'From there he now goes to j Treasures --W. McQuaker. Princeton, one of the oldest and g STREETS CLOSED 'Audjfpr W Dickinson best! known universities in the Next Monday evening, Febru- United States. The council~passedIa resolu- ary 10th, the board ~vill meet tjon, on hlonday that'under ex- members of the North Vancou- traordinary traffic by-laws all II ver Board of Trade at the Clach- of 3rd Street'and AIathers Ave. an hotel for the purpose of dis-ST. STEl'HEN'S CHURCH from 3rd Street to 20th Street cussing 'the val'loils ploblems be 'losed to vehicles ivhich confronting the North Shore Next Tuesday evening the A. weighed, niore'i than 6,000 lbs. municipalities. All the members Y.P.A. will debate the subject with or without loads. The eng- of the Vi)est Vancouver Board of "Resolved that motion pictures ineer ivasiinstrueted'to putiup Trade are invited to be present are more injurious than helpful," the necessary warning notices. «t this meeting. ,'FRIDAY, FEB. 7th, 1930 'o. 47 I. O. D. E. A coui't of revision on the as- sessment roll will be held in the niunicipa) hall tomorrow (Satur- day), beginning at 10 a. m. Practically all frozen connec- tions have been thawed put by the board of works officials.- The annual meeting of the Duncan Lawson Chapter, I. O. D. E., mill be held next Monday, 10th February, at 'he home of Mn- E. H. Jupp, 20th and Engle- wood, at, '&.15 p. m. ~Hollyburn Ridge as a National Park The National Parks branch in Ottawa'has recently stated ~, that it is their intention to establish a national park or parks in every province in'Canada. They have been erigaged for a number of years oa the formation and maintenance of national parks and as a result of their efforts Canada has the following: a couple of small parks in Ne.~v Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Prince Albert Park in Saskatchewan, Jasper, Buffalo, Rocky Mountain and Waterton iLakes Parks in Alberta, and Ypho, "Kootenay, Glacier and Revelstoke Parks in British Columbia. There is talk of Algonquin Park now belonging to the province of Ontario, being turned over to the National Parks branch, who have also acquired another unit'n their systemI by, the formation of Riding Mountain National Park in Manitoba. It will be noticed that most of the parks are in western Canada, and also that those in British Columb'ia are all well in, the interior of the province. As dwellers on the Pacific Coast the most important matter to us is the present desire of the Otta- ava authorities to establish a seaside park on the west coast of Vancouver Island. The idea at the back of the formation of every national park is,to provide a playground primarily for the people of that province in which the park is situated, secondly, for the I'benefit of Canadians as a whole, and thirdly, for the pleasure of those tourists, Canadian and other nationa1ities, who wish to take advantage of the park.= Half of the population of British Columbia live in Greater Vancouver, and it would therefore appear to us that the proper '. place for a seaside park is not on Vancouver Island at all, but right here on the vei~ doorstep of Greater Vancouver. There appeared a very timely letter in our last week's issue from the pen of Mr. Purcell Hardman, suggesting that an area com- posing the Lions, Mount Strachan, Mount Harvey, Black ;Mountain and Hollyburn Ridge would make a most desirable'ationalpark for this coast section. EVhile as Dominion Dep- uty Game AVarden here, 3lr. Hardman is intimately acquainted ,with this section of the country and knows what he is talking about, anyone can visualize the suitability of this area at a glance„~P is, ps we have stated„-hefnre,.on Van&.onver's Ittdpprstep, possesses some of the most wonderful mountajri and sea scenery jo Canada, and it mould be comparatively easy Ij~l to build a road to Hollyburn Ridge from the eastern end in the &.vicinity of the'Capilano River. A suggestion was made by another valued contributor to these columns and editorials to the same effect have appeared in the Vancouver press that Hollyburn Ridge and the adjacent Itfterraintbe made a provincial park. Unfortunately,ihowever, the province only reserves an area and nothing more. 'It has neither the money, nor the machinery nor the plans at present to do anything else. The National Parks Branch has all these things. Once the area is acquired, trained men'take over its managemerit, roads are built with a view specially to make the park as ac- (Icessible as possible, trails, culverts, bridges are constructed, and cottages, cabins and campsites are cleared and made avail- able for rental. Fish and game are protected, and the whole area is advertised widely as a tourist resort. All this would be done if Hollyburn Ridge and the country adjacent mere made a national park by the Ottaiva authorities and it ~vould'ot cost EVest Vancouver. or any part of Greater,Vancouver a cellt. There is hardly any necessity to point out what this :; would mean to our municipality. Not only would ive derive Ii great benefit from the thousands of Greater Vancouver resid: ents who would flock into the park winter and summer, butthere would be all the tourists in addition tp be considere&i. Many say that tourists spend no money as they pass along, except for gas, but they left $400,000,000 jn Canada last year and'$60,000,000 of this, in British Columbia, These huge sums were obviously not all spent for gas. As we have pointed out on a number of occasions in these columns, if we don' get any of the tourists'oney, it is merely because we have failed to provide him with any attractions to spend his money on. He is on a holiday and out to spend for enjoyment, but we have got to provide that enjoyment. This, however, is a matter which can be mell left to thefuture. At present we have Hollyburn Ridge and the surround- ing mountains free--and the area, it is favell to remember, maynot be free much longer--to be taken over as a national park,and the National Parks branch is anxious to secure a parkon'this coast. It is up to us to get busy at once and placebefore them the great natui'al advantages the area in question possesses, and Greater Vancouver's right to have such an areareserved by them. Its desirability is evident to usa and itshould be conipamtjvely easy to make it as evident to them. COURT OF REVISION