Thursday, February 25, 2010
In the Pink

Next to the house at 2284 Old Dollarton Road is this white stucco and pink house at 2290 Old Dollarton Road. This house with its broad front porch and room in the pitch of the roof was built in 1927 for $1000. At this time the address was just listed as being on Dollarton (Highway). The new section of Dollarton Highway to the south was built later, in 2002, and this section became Old Dollarton Rd. If you look at a map you can see that this change in the Highway did make it straighter.

No listing of 2290 appears in either the 1931 or 1960 City Directories. But by 1971 Ferdinand J. Thill and his wife Mary were living in the house. Ferdinand was retired. In 1980 Gerald Vader ran his Beaver Tree Service Ltd. from the house. He was the president of the company. Beaver Tree Service Ltd. was still there in 1991 and 1995/96. However, now William Stuart was the president and he and his wife Sandra were living in the house. By the year 2000 Beaver Tree Services Ltd. had moved to North Vancouver's Riverside Drive.

Demolition Permit: Applied for February 2010.

Photo: Taken February 2010 by SW.