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.