END OF THE MONTH INDEX

OCTOBER 2010

Arranged by Subject and Address, Country

State/Province, City, Street,

East, Alphabetical, West

CANADA

BRITISH COLUMBIA

City of North Vancouver

230 East 10th Street, "More Black and White, Historic Street", Oct. 26, 2010.

238 West 28th Street, "House in the Back", October 15, 2010.

Foot of Lonsdale, "More Black and White, Number 5 Ferry/Seven Seas

          Restaurant", October 28, 2010.

East of Foot of Lonsdale, "More Black and White, The Flamborough Head

          Victory Ship", October 29, 2010.

North Vancouver District

2832 Capilano Road, "14 Town Houses", Thursday, October 7, 2010.

2840 Capilano Road, "Enter on the Side", Friday, October 8, 2010.

3065 Capilano Road, "More Black and White, Compound on Capilano",

           October 25, 2010.

2455 Dollarton Highway, "More Black and White, The Crab Shack",

           October 27, 2010.

911 Kennedy Avenue, "A Great Home to Grow Up In", Thursday,

          October 14, 2010.

2651 Lloyd Avenue, "Circa 1912 Farm House", Tuesday, October 12, 2010.

2670 Lloyd Avenue, "Lloyd Avenue Compound", Wednesday, October 13, 2010.

3380 Lonsdale Avenue, "Sunday Church Feature, The Church on the Hill", North

           Lonsdale United Church, North Vancouver, B.C., Sunday, 

           October 3, 2010.

4193 Lynn Valley Road, "Saturday Special Feature, The End of the Line",

           North Vancouver, B.C.. Saturday, October 2, 2010.

690 Mountain Highway, "Mirror Images on Mountain Highway",

           Tuesday, October, 5, 2010.

698 Mountain Highway, "On the Move", Wednesday, October 6, 2010.

2063 Parkside Lane, "Down in the Gully", Monday, October 4, 2010.

1072 Tall Tree Lane, "A Pool on Tall Tree Lane", Friday, October 1, 2010.

Vancouver

Victoria Drive and 1833 Lakewood Drive, "Happy Canadian Thanksgiving,

            The Story of Two Houses and a Tent", Vancouver and West Vancouver,

            B.C., Monday, October 11, 2010.

Vancouver Island

4778 Island Highway, "Sunday Church Special, St. Andrew's Pioneer Church",

           Courtenay, B.C., Sunday, October 10, 2010.

7480 Island Highway, " Saturday Travel Feature, FBI, Fanny Bay, B.C.", 

           Saturday, October 9, 2010.

West Vancouver

19th Street and Railway, West Vancouver, "Happy Canadian Thanksgiving,

          The Story of Two Houses and a Tent", Vancouver and West Vancouver,

          B.C., Monday, October 11, 2010.

UNITED STATES

WASHINGTON

Port Angeles, , "Saturday Travel Feature, 1914 Clallam County Courthouse",

          October 31, 2010.

Port Angeles,  "Sunday Church Feater, First Presbyterian Church",

          October 24, 2010.

Port Gambel, Washington, "Saturday Travel Feature, Best Friends Antiques",

 Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010.

Port Gambel, "Sunday Church Feature, First Prebyterian Church", 
          October 17, 2010.

OREGON

Ashland, Oregon, "Saturday Travel Feature, Shakespeare Festival",

         October 30, 2010.



SATURDAY TRAVEL FEATURES

4193 Lynn Valley Road, "Saturday Special Feature, The End of the Line",

           North Vancouver, B.C.. Saturday, October 2, 2010.

7480 Island Highway,  "Saturday Travel Feature, FBI, Fanny Bay, B.C.", 

           Saturday, October 9, 2010.

Port Angeles, " Saturday Travel Feature, 1914 Clallam County Courthouse",

          October 31, 2010.

Port Gambel, Washington, "Saturday Travel Feature, Best Friends

          Antiques", Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010.

Ashland, Oregon, "Saturday Travel Feature, Shakespeare Festival",

          October 30, 2010.

SUNDAY CHURCH FEATURES

3380 Lonsdale Avenue, "Sunday Church Feature, The Church on the Hill,
           North Lonsdale United Church", North Vancouver, B.C., October 3, 2010.
Port Gambel, "Sunday Church Feature, First Presbyterian Church",
          October 17, 2010.

4778 Island Highway, "Sunday Church Special, St. Andrew's Pioneer Church",

           Courtenay, B.C., Sunday, October 10, 2010.

Photo: Taken in 2002 of Lynn Creek in Bridgeman Park by SW.

HAPPPY HALLOWEEN!





Saturday Travel Feature

Shakespeare Festival
Ashland, Oregon

"The Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) is a regional repertory theatre in Ashland, Oregon, United States. The festival annually produces eleven plays on three stages during a season that lasts from February to October. Approximately half of the plays produced each year are by William Shakespeare...

"The Elizabethan Stage has evolved since the founding of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. The design for the first outdoor OSF Elizabethan Theatre was sketched by Angus L. Bowmer on the back of an envelope based on his recollection of productions at the University of Washington in which he had acted as a student. Ashland, Oregon obtained WPA funds in 1935 to build it in the roofless shell of the abandoned Chautauqua theatre, the 12-foot-high (3.7 m) circular walls of which remained after the dome had been removed. Bowmer extended the walls to reduce the stage width to fifty-five feet, and painted the extensions to resemble half-timbered buildings. He designed a thrust stage—one projecting toward the audience—with a balcony. Two columns helped divide the main stage into forestage, middle stage, and inner stage areas. Fifty cent general admission seating was on benches just behind the one dollar reserved seating on folding chairs. This theatre was torn down during World War II.^[13]

"The second outdoor Elizabethan Theatre was built in 1947 from plans drawn up by University of Washington drama professor John Conway. The main stage became trapezoidal, with entries added on either side, and windows added above them flanking the balcony stage. A low railing gave a finished appearance to the forestage. Chairs arranged to improve sightlines replaced bench seating. Backstage areas were added gradually and haphazardly, until the ramshackle result was ordered torn down as a fire hazard in 1958.^[13]

"The next year saw the opening of the current outdoor Elizabethan Theatre, patterned on London's 1599 Fortune Theatre. Designed by Richard Hay, it incorporated all the stage dimensions mentioned in the Fortune contract. The trapezoidal stage was retained but the façade was extended to three stories, resulting in a forestage, middle stage, inner below, inner above (the old balcony), and a musicians' gallery. The wings were provided with second-story windows. Each provides acting areas, creating many staging possibilities. A pitched, shingled roof enhances the half-timbered façade. A windowed gable was extended from the center of the roof to cover and define the middle stage. Just before each performance, an actor opens the gable window, and in keeping with Elizabethan tradition signaling a play in progress, runs a flag up the pole to the sound of a trumpet and doffs his cap to the audience.

"The result is not an exact replica of the Fortune Theatre. The known but incomplete dimensions apply only to the stage. The original specifications sometimes say no more than "to be built like the Globe," for which there are no plans or details. The remotely operated lighting, on scaffolding on either side of the stage of course did not exist in the original and the current site rather than the original architecture determines the shape of the auditorium. Twelve hundred seats in slightly offset arcs ascend the original hillside, giving an excellent view of the stage from each seat. The old Chautauqua theatre walls, now ivy-covered, remain as the outer perimeter of the theatre.



Stage of the OSF Elizabethan Theatre



"The US$7.6 million Paul Allen Pavilion was added in 1992. It houses a control room, and audience services including infrared hearing devices, blankets, pillows and food and drink, which are allowed in the auditorium. Several hundred seats were moved to a balcony and two box seats, further improving sightlines and acoustics. Vomitoria, the traditional name for entryways for actors from under the seating area, were added and the lighting scaffolds were eliminated.^[14]

"Each year, three plays are offered in rotation Tuesdays through Sundays in the Elizabethan Theatre from late June to early October."(See Link.)

Photos: Taken of exterior of Ashland Elizabethan Theater in Ashland Oregon in year 2000 by SW. Interior photo from Link below.
Link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Shakespeare_Festival

Friday, October 29, 2010

More Black and White

The Flamborough Head Victory Ship

"HMCS Cape Breton (ARE 100) was a RCN Cape-class escort maintenance ship. Originally built for the Royal Navy as HMS Flamborough Head in 1944 she was transferred in 1952.

"Flamborough Head (pennant F88) was one of the 21 Beachy Head class repair ships.^[1] It was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1952 and served till 1975. It was used as a floating machine shop until the late 1990s. Except for a short section of the stern and her engines, which will comprise a significant portion of the Maritime Museum in North Vancouver BC, it was sunk in the waters of British Columbia in 2001 by the Artificial Reef Society of British Columbia after extensive cleaning to meet Environment Canada requirements. It now lies near Snake Island in Nanaimo harbour and is a popular scuba diving site.

HMS  Flamborough in Erection Shop 2001

"The Christening Bells Project at Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt Naval and Military Museum includes information from the ship's bell of HMCS Cape Breton (2nd) 1959 - 1993, which was used for baptism of babies onboard ship 1959 - 1971. The bell is currently held by the CFB Esquimalt Naval & Military Museum, Esquimalt, BC." (See Link.)

Number 5 Ferry and HMS Flamborough docked at foot of Lonsdale 2001



The "HMCS Cape Breton, ex HMS  Flamborough was towed home to Burrard's former Dry Dock, (BDD where it was built) in North Vancouver in April 1999..." (Reference.) Here it was docked at The Pier, between Lonsdale Avenue and St. Georges Avenue.  The stern was cut off in 2001 and moved to various places on the old BDD grounds including a stint in the Erection Shop at the water end of St. George's Avenue.  It presently sits wrapped in a white protective shell on the BDD grounds south east of the new Pinnacle Hotel. 

Reference: Launching History, Francis Mansbridge, page 85.
Demolition/Sinking: Removal of the stern in 2001.  Sinking near Snake Island off Vancouver Island in 2001.
Photos: Taken at The Pier area in North Vancouver, B.C. in 2001 as part of the Demolition and Construction Project, Roll #2 and 4 on file at the North Vancouver Museum and Archives.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Cape_Breton_(ARE_100)

Thursday, October 28, 2010

More Black and White

Number 5 Ferry/Seven Seas Restaurant

"Constructed by the West Coast Salvage and Contracting Company in 1941, this was the last of the end-to-end loading ferries, and the last to be built for use on the North Shore run.  It accommodated 600  passengers and 30 vehicles, and ran until the cessation of service in 1958.  The following year, it was purchased by a private company and converted into a seafood restaurant." (Reference 1.)



The large neon sign "Seven Seas Seafoods" atop the old #5 Ferry at the foot of Lonsdale Avenue was a North Vancouver City landmark for many years.  In 1996 the City questioned the ships safety and a lengthy court battle ensued. (North Shore News, June 23, 2002.) In June of 2002, at midnight, the vessel was towed from the foot of Lonsdale to  Vancouver Pile Driving at the foot of Brooksbank Avenue.  The removal and destruction of the ship and legal bills, all paid for by the City was estimated at $600,000.(See Outlook, May 23 and June 27, 2002.) "In dry dock it proved to be quite sound, but at that point the decision had already been made to scrap it and a piece of heritage was lost." (Wikipedia.) "Then on July 2,(2002) workers using a cutting torch to remove large bolts got too close to the wooden hull, starting a fire.  North Vancouver District firefighters managed to contain the fire to a small area of what was left of the vessel.(North Shore News, July 12, 2002.)  The neon "Seven Seas" sign finally made its way to the City of North Vancouver Works Yard.

Kitchen of Seven Seas Restaurant 2002



The #5 Ferry had two wheel houses and there was no reverse gear.  To go in the opposite direction the captain would disengage the drive shaft, then go to the wheel house on the opposite end of the ferry and engage a second drive shaft.  Hence, there were two wheel houses, two drive shafts, and two propellers. There were 4 floors to the ferry: engine deck, upper engine room and car deck, passenger/restaurant deck, top deck. (A more complete description accompanies the Demolition and Construction Project Roll #14 report at the North Vancouver Archives.)

Engine of #5 Ferry

Diamond Almas was the owner of the Seven Seas Restaurant.  In 2008 he was inducted into the B.C. Restaurant Hall of Fame. (See Link 2.)

Thank you: To Sharon Proctor for information as to the storage of the removed
                         "Seven Seas" neon sign.

Demolition: Took place at Vancouver Pile Driving in 2002. (Note fire.)

Reference 1: City of North Vancouver Heritage Inventory 1994, page 169.

Photos: Taken in the year 2001 and 2002 as part of the Demolition and Construction Project  Rolls #4 and 14 and 15 by SW.
Link 1: http://www.heritagevancouver.org/pdf/hv_news_2002_05_web.pdf
Link 2: http://www.bcrhof.com/bio_DiamondAlmas_2008.php

October 27, 2010
More Black and White
The Crab Shack

Appendix

City Directory Summary

1960  3689 Dollarton Highway-Martin M. Dobay Jr.
1961  2817 Dollarton Highway-North Vancouver Fish Supply
           2823 Dollarton Highway-Dobay
1962 Same as 1961
1963 2829 Dollarton Highway-Dobay
           2817 Dollarton Highway-North Vancouver Fish Supply
1964 2817 Dollarton Highway-Same as 1961
1965 2817 Dollarton Highway-Same as 1961
1968 Same as 1965
1971  Same as 1963
1972 2817 Dollarton Highway-North Vancouver Fish Supply
           2823 Dollarton Highway-Martin Dobay Jr.
1981 2817 Dollarton Highway-North Vancouver Fish Supply
1982 2817 Dollarton Highway-The Crab Shop (Note name.)
1991 2817 Dollarton Highway-Vacant
           2820 Dollarton Highway-Martin and Shirley Dobay/The Crab Shop Ltd.
1995/1996 Same as 1991 with a note that Martin and Shirley Dobay had been
           the owners at that location for 6 years.

1999/2000 2464 Dollarton Highway-The Crab Shop (Phone Directory)
2006/2007 2464 Dollarton Highway-The Crab Shop (Phone Directory)
Until 2011 #121 2455 Dollarton Highway-The Crab Shop (Phone Directory)

Researched by Suzanne Wilson at the North Vancouver Archives.

The Crab Shack, 2817 Dollarton Highway, 2002

Wednesday, October 27, 2010
More Black and White
The Crab Shack

The Crab Shack (Note the name on the sign on west side of roof above front door.) has been a land mark of North Vancouver since the 1950's. It is "The Place" and "The Only Place" locals buy live crab in North Vancouver.  The Crab Shop was first on the mud flats south of  Dollarton highway, then north of the highway  at 2817 Dollarton Highway across from  the bird sanctuary, and presently again south of the highway further west at #121 2455 Dollarton Highway in the Dollarton  Shopping Center (The name now listed in the phone book is The Crab Shop.)

Although there is no listing of The Crab Shack in the Building Permit Book at the North Vancouver Archives and ambiguous listings in the City Directories, two local residents gave more information.  One is Ron Westmoreland who worked for Lyttle Brothers, a branch of  L and K Lumber, when the original Crab Shack was on land leased from them and used for log storage.  Ron Westmoreland's job was to pick up the  monthly rent for The Crab Shack from the owner at that time, Mr. Dobay.  Ron thought that The Crab Shack  may have been there from the 1950's. 

Salesperson Jen White and  Owner Marcel Gregori
2817 Dollarton Highway, 2002

The other person with information on The Crab Shack was the owner since 1993, Marcel Gregori.  Marcel Gregori told this story when interviewed by Suzanne Wilson in 2002.  "Until 20 years ago The Crab Shack was down the road at the mud flats.  When the hippie's were kicked off the mud flats and the land was developed into about 20 lots with houses The Crab Shack was moved to its present location.  Marcel bought it from an old man in 1993.  The next year the old man died.  Before leasing The Crab Shack Marcel managed a fish plant.

"The land The Crab Shack is on and the treed land behind it was owned  by the Port Authority.  Marcel leased it on a 30 day lease.  For this reason improvements were kept to a minimum.  There was some talk of the Port Authority selling the land behind The Crab Shack for development.  However there was the issue of water shed to the bird sanctuary across the road."

Boat Marcel Gregori used for crab fishing, 2002
(Stored next to the shop at 2817 Dollarton Highway)

Putting the two stories together plus the information from the City Directories seems to indicate this history. That The Crab Shack started as North Vancouver Fish Supply at 2817 Dollarton Highway possibly under the proprietor ship of Martin Dobay (in some City Directories spelled Dobey) in 1961.  It continued under the name North Vancouver Fish Supply until 1982 when it became The Crab Shack  and with the proprietor being Martin Dobay.  This was when it was on the mud flats.  In 1988 when the area was developed The Crab Shack moved to 2464 on the north side of Dollarton Highway.    In 1993 Marcel Gregori bought the business from Martin Dobay. The next year Martin Dobay died.

One more move was in for The Crab Shack.  That was in 2007 when it moved into a new store and again to the south side of Dollarton Highway.  Its sign now reads the Crab Shop and it is located at #121 2455 Dollarton Highway in the Dollarton Business Park and east of Forester Street.

Crab traps behind boat next to the shop at 2817 Dollarton Highway, 2002

Appendix: List of City Directory entries on request by e mail.
Demolition: Of original Crab Shack on mud flats probably in 1988.        
Thank you: To Ron Westmoreland and Marcel Gregori for the interviews and
                        information.
Photos: Taken of Crab Shack on Dollarton Highway in 2002 by SW.  (See Demolition and Construction Project Roll # 10 at the North Vancouver
                       Archives.)



          

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

More Black and White

Historic Street

The house at 230 East 10th Street was in 1937 for $2,500. The builder was  J. E. Atkins and the owner was K. Howell.  But long before that there were many houses on the  200 block of East 10th Street.  And there are photographs of many of them in the City of North Vancouver Heritage Inventory 1994.  These include houses on the south side of the street at: 225,227, 231, and 251, and houses on the north side of the street at: 240, 244, 246, and 252.  All these homes were built between 1909 and 1912.

In 1940 Hugh L. and Helen E. Fraser were the residents of the 230 East 1oth Street home.  Hugh Fraser was a branch manager for the Royal Bank.  In 1950 D. P Attchison was living in the house.  In 1960 the owners were G. Edgar and A. Bernice Harding.  G. Edgar Harding was  foreman at Western Bridge.  In 1971 the owners were Micheal D. and May Forman.  Michael Forman worked as a computer operator for MSA.

In 1980 the owners were George B. and D. Helen Kerry.  George Kerry was a salesman for Vancouver Magazine Service.  In 1991 the owner was M. L. Wall.  And in the 1995/1996 City Directory the owner is listed at Carol Newton.

Demolition:  The house was demolished in 2001.
Photo: Taken for Demolition and Construction Project Roll #5 in 2001 by SW.  Demolition and Construction Project is on file at the North Vancouver Archives.