The origin of the street names on the North Shore provides a fascinating history into the development of the North Shore as we know it today. This blog covers the people and places behind some of the names, starting with LONSDALE but also discussing Bridgman, Fell, Hamilton, Cloverley, Keith, Mahon, Moody, .Heywood, Pemberton, Whitchurch, Adderley and Shavington.
Sidewalk Talk
A Humble Home for a Mountaineering Icon
832 Cumberland – “A Sense of Home”
This blog documents the history of the Holdcroft family who lived at 832 Cumberland Crescent for 57 years and whose daughters attended the Crosby School for Girls, located at 745 Grand Boulevard in North Vancouver. Using Mary Holdcroft’s own typewritten document called “Memories of North Vancouver in the ‘20s and ‘30s” as a source, the blog includes many excerpts to provide an animated history of her family, their home, their neighbourhood and as the title implies, life in North Vancouver in the early 20th century. The blog is interspersed with a large number of photos of their house, their family and the Crosby School for Girls as well as some city and landscape photos taken by Mary’s father, John Barber Holdcroft, an amateur photographer who lived in North Vancouver during WW1, and again from 1924 until his death in 1975.
Heritage Home Moving Day!
Revitalization of the Ottawa Gardens Show Home
The distinctive heritage home that anchors the east end of Ottawa Gardens was built in 1907 as a show home by the North Vancouver Land & Improvement Company for its Ottawa Gardens development. The house is now well into its second century of life but came close to being lost due to neglect. Click here to find out how it was saved.
