In November 2024, North Shore Heritage was contacted by a woman who was packing up her mother’s house and wanted to donate “house plans”. The next thing we knew, we were in possession of the Forest Hills development brochure, a 36-page, cirlox-bound booklet with an amazing choice of 31 designs, a stark contrast to the cookie-cutter developments of today! The booklet, while primarily a marketing and advertising vehicle at the time, is now a fantastic piece of history and art, documenting architectural styles and social norms of the mid 1950’s.
The Poor Man's Cow (Goats of North Vancouver)
Join us as we travel back in time to North Vancouver in the early 1920’s when the ratio of goats to humans was 1 to 33! At that time, goats were very important as providers of milk to the pioneering community of mostly European immigrants, some of whom had come from rather more refined households, only to live a more humble life on the North Shore.