Monday, September 6, 2010
A Week of Black and White
Since 1946 in Deep Cove

This 1946 home at 4142 Mount Seymour Parkway is noted in the Real Estate ad as being in Deep Cove. It just makes it into this most eastern area of the District of North Vancouver for it sat above the intersection where the Dollarton Highway turns into Deep Cove Road. The road runs in the west from the Upper Levels Highway to the base of Mount Seymour and then on to this junction in the east where Dollarton Highway changes to Deep Cove Road.

The name of Mount Seymour Parkway itself does not seem to appear in the City Directories until around 1971. There is no listing of Mount Seymour Parkway or Mount Seymour Highway in the 1955 City Directory. In 1960 and1965 Mount Seymour Highway is listed, but not Mount Seymour Parkway. However, in those years there are no addresses on Mount Seymour Highway. Mount Seymour was named in honour of Frederick Seymour, second governor of the Colony of British Columbia. (See Link 2.)

In 1971 there is full documentation of the 4142 Mount Seymour Parkway address in the City Directory and Mount Seymour Highway no longer is listed. Leslie F. and Glady's N. Newson are listed as owners of the 4142 Mount Seymour Parkway house. Leslie Newson is also listed as president of Leslie Brown Realty.

The only other owners listed in the City Directories are Terrance and Anne Sheldon. They seem to have lived at 4142 Mount Seymour Parkway at least from 1980 to the year 2000 as indicated by both the City Directories and the North and West Vancouver Phone Directories. In in 1991 and 1995 Terrance Sheldon was working as an electrician.

The Real Estate ad in Link 1 describes the house as being on a 14,303 sq. ft. double lot. The 4 bedroom 3,052 sq. ft. house had two storeys with a basement, and a double garage. There was even a "peek-a-boo" view of the water. It sold for $800,000. (See Link 1.)

A Week of Black and White

The Black and White photos of all the homes this week were taken in July of 2007 as part of the Demolition and Construction North Vancouver Archives Project by Suzanne Wilson. On notification of City and District applications for Demolition Permits the photos were taken and documented. Negatives and contact prints were filed at the North Vancouver Archives as part of their permanent photo collection. The project ran from 2001 to 2010.


Demolition Permit: Applied for in 2007.
Photos: The black and white photo Demolition and Construction Project photo Roll # 85 Negative 1 on file at the North Vancouver Archives. (The photo above was taken of the contact sheet with a digital camera.)
Link 1: http://www.davelund.myubertor.com/Properties.php/Details/14
Link 2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Seymour