Thursday, May 27, 2010
Fifty-five Years in the Capilano Highlands

This $7,500 1947 home was built in the heart of Capilano Highlands in the District of North Vancouver. 913 Belmont Avenue was the address and H. M. Fisher was the owner. Only three years later in 1950 Don F. and Joan K. Corbett owned the house. Don Corbett was the manager at Perfex Ltd., manufacturers of sodium hypo-chlorite bleach and disinfectants at 3460 Commercial Drive in Vancouver.

By 1955 the Rudd family owned the house. They are listed at this address in the City Directories and the North Vancouver phone books through the 2008/2010 issues. That is a total of 55 years in the home at 913 Belmont Avenue for the Rudd family.  In 1955 Wilfred V. and Margaret M. Rudd are listed as the owners. Wilfred was employed as an engineer at H. A. Simons Ltd. In 1960 Wilfred was working as a civic design supervisor at International Power and Engineering Consultants at 570 Dunsmuir in Vancouver. By 1971 Wilfred was an assistant project manager of construction for B.C. Hydro. In 1980 and 1991 only M. M. Rudd was reported as the owner of 913 Belmont Avenue. In 1995 along with M. M. Rudd, Jerrfrey M. Rudd, a physicist at SFU was listed at living at that address as well. The listings in the year 2000 and 2008/2010 phone books is under W. V. Rudd.

There is only one other North Vancouver family researched for this blog that lived in their home longer than the Rudd's 55 years. That family is the Watt's whose house was at 343 Seymour River Place. The Watt's lived in that home for 57  years. (See Thursday, March 25, 2010 Blog Post.)

Building Permit: Applied for May 2010.
Photo: Taken in May 2010 by SW.