Friday, August 6, 2010
West Side of Beaumont Dr.

The white single storey house at 957 Beaumont Dr. was built by 1950 when the owners are listed as Jas D. and Berna J. McMaster. However, there is no listing in the Building Permit Book at the North Vancouver Archives as to the exact date it was built. And in the 1945 City Directory the street of Beaumont Dr. is not even mentioned. In contrast to 944 Beaumont Dr., featured in yesterday's post, the house sits on the west side of Highland Boulevard in the Capilano Highlands area of the District of North Vancouver.

In 1950 Jas McMaster was working as the head clerk at Standard Oil. Jas and Berna also owned the house in 1960 and in that year Jas was an analytical supervisor for Standard Oil. In 1971, John M. and Elizabeth E. Hamilton owned  the house. John Hamilton was employed as a geophysicist at Cominco.

In 1980 Thomas F. and Marilyn E. Oldfield were the owners of 957 Beaumont Dr. They were also the owners in the 1991, and 1995 City Directories and Thomas Oldfield is listed in the 2008/2010 North and West Vancouver Phone Directory. So they probably lived at the 957 Beaumont Dr. address for 30 years. In 1980, 1991 and 1995 Thomas Oldfield was listed in the City Directories as being employed as a draftsman at Chapman and Chapman.

For more information on the area see Blog Post August 5, "East Side of Beaumont Dr."

Demolition Permit: Applied for in July 2010.
Photo: Taken in July 2010 by SW.

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