Edition 15 Nov 2011 - Cedar Cottage Neighbourhood

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Neighbour
The Kensington - Cedar Cottage
November 2011- Issue 15
Serving the Kensington Cedar Cottage community
Historical Issue! See what it
was like back in the old days
Old Time Stories
story / page 3
Miss Kathleen Mcgeer
lord selkirk teacher
story / page 6
City of Vancouver Archives-M-3-11.3
Men skating on Trout Lake
Tool Library now
in Vancouver
story / page 15
old days
How Old is Your House?
n John Buckberrough,
Community Resident
City of Vancouver Archives-CVA330-26.1
Cedar Cottage Houses Circa 1909
Vancouver is a young city with a surprisingly
long history. The city was incorporated in 1886 and
records show that the oldest surviving house dates
from 1888. This is somewhat deceiving, as there is a
much longer timeline. Kingsway, the great divider
of our community, was originally surveyed by the
Royal Engineers in 1860, providing a direct land link
with the then-colonial capital of New Westminster.
Fraser Street, originally named North Arm Road,
was laid out in 1875 and connected Vancouver (or
Granville, as it was then known) to Richmond. This
was one of the earliest bridges across the Fraser
River, and was only replaced by the Knight Street
Bridge in the 1970s. This is the reason why there
is so much retail development along Fraser Street
and so little on Knight Street.
In general, the houses of KCC were built in
successive waves. The first was started before the
First World War, followed by some construction
in the 1920s and 1940s, and finally by sustained
development that started in the 1960s and continues
to the present day. How old is an “old” house in KCC?
The answer, with a bit of work, is surprisingly easy
to discover. The City has a wonderful resource in
the City Archives, located at Kitsilano Point near
the Museum and Planetarium.
The key to determining the age of a house is
to find out when water service was installed: to
this day, this is one of the final things to occur
before a newly built house is occupied. The City
has maintained a complete record of all water
connections and, by using the street address, it is
a straightforward process to check the microfiche
records of the Water Department, housed in the
Archives. Sanitary sewers, curbs and gutters, and,
indeed, paved streets and sidewalks often came at a
much later date.
So how old is my house? The records indicate
that water service started on May 19, 1911, making
it just over a century old. The sidewalks were laid
in 1931 (a Depression-era public works project?)
and I suspect that the boulevard trees, mature red
oaks, date from the same period.
Like you, your house has a history and a story
to tell. Successive editions of the commercial City
Directory can tell you who lived in your house
and for how long. A word of caution though: in
some cases street names have changed as the city
grew with development and with the annexation
of municipalities such as South Vancouver (1929).
Windsor Street, north of King Edward, was
initially named Dock Street, at least as far as
Seventh Avenue, where a wharf presumably jutted
into False Creek before it was filled in east of Main
Street after 1912. Take a bit of time to discover the
history of your house. Your knowledge of its history
is another element in the fabric of our community.
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October 2011 The KCC Neighbour 3
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Ruth Morton - From Tent to Taj Mahal
n Rika Schell, Youth and Children`s Ministries
I remember well the
pink and blue wooden
chairs in the kid’s room
of the little church on
the corner of 27th and
Prince Albert. On my
first visit as a 5 year
old I was thrilled when
welcomed with my very
first ball point pen. On
the side were the words
“Ruth Morton Memorial
Baptist Church” (RMMBC). Those pink and
blue chairs are still there today and to replace
them now would likely cost a small fortune.
The solid hardwood and numerous spindles have
withstood decades of tushes both small and large,
the latter belonging to leaders once students,
now the chair of choice for meetings.
Sometimes planning for children comes easier
when one begins at their level, and yes, people do
stay that long. As we poke around the campus
we see there is much more evidence this church
has a tale to tell. Outside on the southeast
corner of the building the name of the church
has been chiseled in a smooth, cream-coloured
marble cornerstone followed by the date of 1912.
In a short time we will be one hundred years
old. When you’re a kid such things mean little
to nothing to you. The only corner you are
interested in is not the one you never even knew
had an historical engraving, but the corner store
where jawbreakers are 3 for a penny. But over
the years appreciation grows as time invested
weaves you into the tale and you yearn to know
more of the history that has shaped you.
As each piece of the story unfolds it compels
us to turn the page and the next thing you know
you are asking where the archives are kept.
Inside, the pipe organ which is still in use today,
is one of two of its kind remaining in Vancouver.
It takes mad skills to make music worthy of this
queen of instruments but those who understand
her moods can make you feel like you are the
Phantom of the Opera. She is frail yet supremely
magnificent. In the library we find walls do
talk. There are some leather bound books on
the shelves, one big enough to stop a bus, as
well as various framed photos and documents
of significance, the most heartbreaking being
the one naming all the men and women of the
congregation who never came home from World
War II. The calligraphy by which their names
were penned though exquisite, is but an earthly
attempt to illuminate what is whispered among
angels. The beautifully understated stained
glass windows that softly light the sanctuary
are original for the most part. Years of pellet
guns, stones and the odd misdirected ladder has
necessitated ongoing repairs. The largest panes
have been completely restored, replacing only
what simply could not be saved. The history of
the windows however remains intact.
When the sun sets in the west, words which
are the testament of a man’s regard for his
beloved wife, Ruth, unfurl on a scroll across
the cathedral frame, aglow with eternal love.
The man was John Morton, the first settler in
Vancouver. In fact, Vancouver was originally
dubbed “Morton’s Shack” and together with
his two pioneering partners became known
as The Three Greenhorns. He started First
Baptist Church, still on the corner of Burrard
and Nelson streets, from whom came forth Ruth
Morton Memorial Baptist Church. I say “whom”
because a church is not a building – it’s people.
While the building was going up, the church
met in a large tent. Such is the stuff for a good
love story, according to Canadian best-selling
author and former pastor of RMMBC, Bruce
A. Woods. Admittedly a hopeless romantic,
he has given the church of his younger days a
moniker, emphatically calling it the “Taj Mahal
of Canada” and has written a book entitled
‘A Vancouver Love Story’ to prove it, due for
release before the year’s end. Woods is planning
to travel west in the new year from his current
home in Hamilton, Ontario to speak on the
humble beginnings of this seemingly insignificant
church. He will grace our pulpit once again on
Sunday May 6th, 2012, and the church bell will
chime as it does every Sunday morning. No one
can tell there’s a crack in it.
At the time of this writing we will be saying
goodbye to a long time member who is returning
to her homeland of Scotland after a brief stay of
what was supposed to be a year that became 45
years. We wonder why she is leaving so soon.
She is like a living historical document and when
she leaves she will take with her some of our
Mountainview Cemetary
Bordering on the edge of Kensington is
Vancouver’s only cemetery. Mountain View had
its first burial in February, 1887. It grew quickly
and since then more than 145,000 souls have been
laid to rest within its 42.9 hectares. Significant
events are commemorated at Mountain View
through the burial of victims from shipping
disasters such as the Princess Sophia, railway
crashes, and the Rogers Pass Avalanche. The
cemetery is the resting place for fourteen
Vancouver mayors, city firemen, police officers
and ordinary citizens.
Early on in its history, special agreements
pages. When you offer her a second slice of pie
she says, “I’ve had an elegant sufficiency, thank
you” in a perfect Scottish brogue. Seriously,
who talks like that? I feel cheated.
Meanwhile, back in the kid’s room a five year
old girl with curly brown locks who is the new
keeper of a pink wooden chair yells “Boo-ya
baby!” and pumps her little fist in the air. She
is a fourth generation congregant. Times may
change but the spirit is still here.
(Mountainview’s best kept secret is nestled in
a corner on 27th and Prince
Albert Street. Every Thursday morning
from 9:30-11:30 moms and caregivers (dads are
welcome too) and their wee ones drop in for Tea n
Tots, a program that takes place in the education
building of Ruth Morton Baptist Church.)
nJohn Aitkin, Community Resident
were entered into with a number of fraternal
organizations to set aside blocks of graves in the
Jones Addition for the Masonic Order (Ancient
Free and Accepted Masons), the Oddfellows, and
the Knights of Pythias.
In the “Old Cemetery”, graves were reserved
for the Jewish, Chinese and Japanese communities.
By the 1980s, with the cemetery considered full,
grave sales stopped and for the next quarter of
a century little activity took place except for
lawn mowing and accommodating burials in
already purchased lots. With expenses climbing,
interest was expressed in handing management
of Mountain View to private interests. However,
the City took a new look at the potential for
reopening and revitalizing the cemetery itself
and in 2000 approved a Master Plan to provide a
framework for its redevelopment over the next
100 years.
For more information, see
http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/
NONMARKEtOPERATIONS/
MOUNTAINVIEW/history/index.htm
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FARMING & HORTICULTURE IN HISTORIC EAST VANCOUVER
A
hundred and twenty five years
ago, Vancouver was not really
more than a few buildings in the forest, and
almost all of them burned to the ground
on June 16th 1886. The population was
about one thousand. The first scheduled
C.P.R. passenger train arrived at Port
Moody and the Vancouver Herald began
publication. As much as things have
changed and grown between then and now,
it is remarkable to look back and see the
resourcefulness of early business people in
providing goods and services to the citizens
of the new city. This was particularly true
in the nursery industry. Today we have a
small handful of retail nurseries within the
city limits, but around the turn of the 20th
century, there were enterprises of all kinds
including farms, ranches, market gardens
and greenhouses. Our own neighbourhood
was packed with these businesses, big and
small, and they were turning out a huge
array of products. In 1888, Arthur Wilson
bought 40 acres at Knight and Kingsway
and started Cedar Cottage Nursery. He
died in 1893 and the land was subdivided,
with 33 foot lots going for $425.
Within a few years, large tracts of
land were bought around Trout Lake and
the owners began farming the rich, peat
filled soil. By 1910, Cedar Cottage had 17
farmers listed in the Vancouver Directory.
Gladstone School was later built on Foxes’s
Farms, a former dairy operation in the area.
A number of market gardens also operated
between 23rd and 24th Avenues just east
of Knight. These were run by immigrants
from the south of China. There were a
number of nursery operations centred
around the rich soils of Tea Swamp, just
west of the Kensington boundary at Fraser
Street. At Kingsway and 14th Avenue, M.J.
Henry’s had 10 acres of greenhouses and
grounds where they grew 100,000 trees
and plants. Their 1909 catalogue offers
seeds for $.05 per packet, vegetable plants
for $.25 per dozen andv trees from $.25
to $1.50. The range of products available
is stunning, and includes palms, bamboo,
cactus and cut flowers as well as bee hives
n Mark Errett, Community Resident
for $1.25. Rosehill Nursery operated
at Kingsway and 12th Avenue and
was owned by Svend Syerdahl
who built the Dominion Hotel and
also owned part of the Astor Hotel
downtown. At 21st Avenue and
Main was Brown Brother’s Nursery
where they maintained a large
greenhouse operation as well as
nursery grounds. Cut flowers were
produced here for sale at their store
at 48 East Hastings Street. The
accompanying photo shows the size
of the greenhouses. These would
have been heated by coal or possibly
sawdust and required someone on
duty at all times of the day and
night to feed the boilers and operate the
ventilation system. Plants would have been
grown in heavy clay pots and wooden flats,
so they would have needed a large crew
of strong workers. As time went on, of
course, land became more valuable and one
by one these growing operations went out
of business or moved further out from the
city. By the 1940’s, the farms and nurseries
were mostly gone, their land turned to
housing, parks and other commercial
enterprises.
Today,
we
are used to having a wide
variety of horticultural
products available at all
times of the year. But those
roses for Mother’s Day may
have come from Colombia,
and that tropical plant for
the office from Florida.
Sometimes ‘progress’ is
like a step in the wrong
direction. As we think more
about eating locally and
growing more of our own
food, we should remember and be inspired
by the fact that our neighbourhoods were
once filled with businesses and people who
knew how to grow most of what was needed
right here within the limits of our city.
We can plant an apple tree or grow some
potatoes and tip our hats to the pioneers of
early Vancouver.
Sources:
Vancouver
Public
Library, Special Collections VPL 9951B
The Days Before Yesterday in Cedar Cottage, compiled
by Gladstone Historical Committee, produced by
Gladstone Secondary School, 1968.
The History of Metropolitan Vancouver by
Chuck Davis, 1997.
The Vancouver Book by Chuck Davis, 1976.
Vancouver: A Visual History by Bruce
Macdonald, 1992.
Vancouver Public Library, Special Collections,
historical photographs. Special thanks to librarians
Kristina Kumpf and Andrew Martin for their
invaluable assistance.
Vancouver Archives, historical photograph of
MJ Henry’s Nursery, M.J. Henry’s 1909 catalogue,
Brown Brothers Company fonds
Mark Errett is a certified horticulturist who
operates Kensington Nursery. You can contact him
at 778 228-4369 or www.kensingtonnursery.net
City of Vancouver Archives Major Matthews Collection, District P126
The First St. Margaret’s Cedar Cottage Anglican Church
In 1908, before it was built, the
earliest of three St. Margaret’s
Cedar Cottage Anglican Churches
was given a name and a site near its
present location at 1530 East 22nd
at Dumfries. In the first years of
the 20th century Anglicans in this
neighbourhood met at Patterson
Hall. That building was located
on the corner of Kingsway (then
known as Westminster Road) and
Commercial Drive (then called
Cedar Cottage Road). The hall was
very near Fowler’s farm. One night,
according to a witness’s report, “a
stray cow rubbed herself against
the old plank building causing it to
shake.”
By 1907, the local Anglicans
obtained permission from the
Diocese of New Westminster to
build its first wooden church on
property given to the group by
Mrs. Fowler, the widow of Sandy
Fowler who owned the dairy cattle
and grew produce for sale in the
neighbourhood and elsewhere.
Mrs. W.J Brewer, who died before
the church was built, wanted
the Anglican Parish in the New
Westminster diocese that was to
have St. Margaret of Antioch as its
patron, to make a connection with
St. Margaret’s Church-Westminster
Abbey that stands between the
more ornate and better known
Westminster Abbey and the Houses
of Parliament in London. In 1909,
the first wooden place of worship
called St. Margaret’s Cedar Cottage
Anglican Church was completed
and, on October 20th of that year,
consecrated. Nothing is known
about its external appearance and
n Ann Rosenburg, Parishioner
only one black and white image of
the interior survives.
This first church that was
attended by over two dozen
devoted families was burned down
on Halloween Eve in 1914. The
next larger and very well attended
church was consecrated in 1922. On
February 18, 1981 it also was burned
down by arsonists, an vact that
forced the 50-strong congregation
to meet for many years in the living
room of St. Margaret’s Manse, the
house at 22nd and Dumfries. In
the interim period Rev. Margaret
Marquardt and the parishioners
made plans to build the present
modern church and the four storey
social housing apartment building
next door. The current church was
opened by Bishop Michael Ingham
in Summer, 1996. The picture of
the group in front of it’s fine cedar
entry doors was taken in the 100th
year of St. Margaret’s history. It
includes members of St. Margaret’s
walking group along with Rev
Heidi Brear who had become the
church’s Interim Priest after Rev.
Marquardt’s resignation.
people
Miss Kathleen McGeer Lord Selkirk teacher 1919 to 1927
n Charles Campbell, Community Resident
I remember the first time I walked into the playground. It was a hot,
lazy late-August day. My wife and I had been school shopping, and
we’d ended up in Lord Selkirk Elementary’s nascent French immersion
program through the district-wide lottery, after failing to get a spot for
our daughter in three other desirable neighbourhood schools. Yes, we did
not choose Lord Selkirk.
Yet as I entered the school’s welcoming oasis, at the end of a wonderfully
idiosyncratic two-block stretch of Commercial Street, I knew Selkirk
would be okay. I didn’t realize quite how fantastically okay, or how much
history I had walked into. Perhaps Lord Selkirk chose us.
I knew that in 1891 the Cedar Cottage stop on the New Westminster
to Vancouver interurban line had made Commercial Street, which was
then Cedar Cottage Drive, the first business hub in the diminishing East
Vancouver forest. But I didn’t know about [Miss Greer, whom I called
Aunt] Timmie. My cousin Tom told me she had taught there. “I think it
was 1917.”
Just before the school’s 100th anniversary last May, in a small room
at the top of the stairs of the handsome brick building that bears the
Selkirk name, I pored over old photos and records. And there it was, not
1917 but 1919 ... then 1920, ’21, ’22, all the way to 1927. At first she was
Miss K. McGeer, then once McGur, McGeer again, once Miss Prest, and
then finally Mrs. Priest. She was born on April Fool’s Day in 1897, in the
McGeer family home on 18th east of Main, so she would have been just 22
when she arrived.
What did Kathleen “Timmie” McGeer think of her class of as many
as 40 pioneer ruffians? And what did they think of her, the eighth of 11
children born to James and Emily McGeer?
Not always kissable
Timmie certainly made a big impression on me. I remember being
asked to give her a kiss once, in the foyer of my grandparents’ Point Grey
home, these old people all staring down at me smiling, leering it seemed,
and I pulled away and shouted “No!”
I remember, age seven, going to her pink row house on West 10th with
my father to watch the moon landing. I remember the dinners, the smell
of an old person’s home, the roasted, salted almonds in their little silver
dishes above the dessert forks. I remember the fierce arguments at a table
full of congenital Liberals over the revolutionary influence of young
Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. I remember the green parlour
chairs that came around the Horn in a ship from Manchester, where my
great grandfather had worked as a young reporter for the Guardian. You
weren’t allowed to lean back on them, and I thought that was ridiculous.
In time, I grew my hair long and fell out of her orbit, except for the big
family occasions. But I never detected any judgment. Timmie could list in
detail the great accomplishments of any nephew or great grandniece you
could name. She loaned money to some that didn’t always require it, even
though she had none herself. She took in brothers and sisters when they
needed the help, no matter how disagreeable they might occasionally be.
Timmie was an anchor for our family, and I am sure she was a rock for
Lord Selkirk.
Salmon gaffed for mink
It’s not so easy, however, for me to conjure the Lord Selkirk she taught
at. Our history in Vancouver is so short and the pace of change so quick
that most of us have little sense of it. When Lord Selkirk was built, it
wasn’t yet in Vancouver but in South Vancouver. Creeks ran through the
stump farms where Moses Gibson’s cattle wandered.
When Timmie arrived, had the businesses that made Commercial Street
thrive begun to migrate to the newer development on nearby Kingsway,
or down toward the fancy homes east of Commercial Drive? Did shoeless
boys still traverse the trail from the Cedar Cottage tram stop down to the
boggy water at Trout Lake to swim in their birthday suits?
In 1919, were they still gaffing Gibson Creek salmon with pitchforks
for the caged mink at 18th and Clark? Did the proprietor of the flatiron
drugstore at Kingsway and Clark still go down at noon to catch trout in
the creek, which ran through the pilings under the building, and fry one
up for lunch?
And what of Commercial Street, now swapping its light industrial
buildings for slick townhomes, erasing yet another layer of history? Did the
Salvation Army band still play on Saturday afternoons in front of McKee
Drygoods when Timmie taught at Selkirk? Were the stores still open until
9 pm on weekends, “just like downtown”? Did they still talk about the
1912 robbery at the (now beautifully restored) Bank of Hamilton, where a
bullet grazed a woman’s shoulder before lodging in a butcher shop’s side
of beef? Was there still an indoor roller coaster at the amusement hall?
And how many candies could you buy for a penny?
I remember a few of Timmie’s stories about her East Vancouver
childhood. James McGeer ran a dairy at 15th and Fraser, and his sons
would on Sundays after church take a wagon to Richmond to buy milk.
As a toddler, Timmie sometimes went with them. She recalled two brothers
once getting so drunk they fell asleep in the wagon, but the horses knew the
way home. Yet I have no stories about Selkirk, beyond Timmie’s disdain
for teachers who believe they can’t properly teach many more than 20
kids when she could handle twice that number with authority.
Stories slowly slip away
I know she married a mining engineer and spent a few years in the
northwestern B.C. with him at the Premier mine. Roy Priest died young.
Was it silicosis or tuberculosis? Timmie had no children of her own. I wish
I had asked her more about her past. Timmie’s resilience certainly gave
me enough time for that.
When she broke her foot at 95, she defied her doctor’s prediction that
she would never walk again. She played bridge until cataracts made her
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nearly blind, and she always knew where her sherry
was. When my dad had a heart attack, I dropped by the
West Van care home she entered in her late 90s to let
her know. I told her that his wife would have to help him
make some adjustments. “God help the woman who has
to live with a man who has to make adjustments,” she
declared.
I did once ask her a question about her brother Gerald.
As mayor, Gerald Grattan McGeer built city hall in the
midst of the Depression, and helped us celebrate the
city’s 50th birthday in great style. He was an MLA, an
MP, a Senator, a demagogue, a temperance advocate
and alcoholic. In 1947, a year after being elected mayor
a second time, he drank a bottle of his daughter’s Eau
de Cologne at her bedside, and was found dead in his
study the next morning. Nearly 50,000 people lined the
streets for his funeral procession.
I learned about the manner of his death from his
1986 biography, Mayor Gerry, and asked Timmie if
the account was true. She did not look at me, but set
her face and said, “I don’t know why they had to put
that in there.” She needn’t have worried. People barely
remember who Gerald McGeer was, let alone the
circumstances of his departure from the scene.
I remember Timmie’s dreamlike 100th birthday,
where she held court laughing in the centre of a huge
Point Grey arts-and-crafts living room. I visited her the
day before she died, at 101, two years short of living in
three centuries. She couldn’t speak, but I won’t forget
her birdlike mouth, or the firmness of the hand that
would not release mine when it was time for me to go.
I have a few photos of Timmie. I have the ring she
wore when she died. When the time is right, I will give
it to Calla. I have four parlour chairs, although on one
the back is broken, because I neglected to mention the
risk.
I remember Timmie well enough. Yet as Selkirk
celebrated its 100th anniversary, as Vancouver celebrates
its 125th, I wish we were all better at remembering our
past. We don’t often acknowledge the shortness of time,
or truly measure our place in it. Timmie helps me with
that. And our children help us with that. They remind
us how fleeting life is, and how precious. They remind
us that the past shapes the future, and will do so again
and again. I’m sure it was like that for Timmie at Lord
Selkirk, as she left her own family for the community
of a school.
We’re lucky that some
things do not change.
Charles Campbell is a veteran Vancouver
journalist and contributing editor at The
Tyee website. Lucky to Live in Cedar Cottage,
an excellent Lord Selkirk oral history project,
is available through the school.
Florence Anderson:
a long life in an old house
It has been a privilege to get to know
Florence Anderson, one of the most
fascinating neighbours I’ve ever had. This
December, she will mark her 97th birthday
in the 101-year-old house that has been
her home since she was four. She is a living
archive of ages come and gone, speaking
generously in a sepia-toned voice, using
words you never hear anymore to tell
stories all but forgotten. We chat in her
kitchen, long since modernized but for
the rotary phone she still uses. As she
carefully describes of the neighbourhood
she grew up in, I feel as if I’m listening
to the narrator of a classic film – she
uses terms like “tea house” for coffee
shop, “show” for movie and “druggist”
for pharmacy. Her memories are as vivid
as the colour she brings to decades often
observed only in black and white.
I’ve always admired Florence’s little
house on Commercial Street, a lovely,
cream-coloured place with a long, sloping
backyard that backs onto Beatrice Street.
Built in 1910, Florence’s parents bought
the house in 1919 for $1,200. Her father,
a stone mason, dug out the basement and
buffered it with rocks he’d cut himself
from boulders found in Brewers Park. For
heating they used a wood-burning stove,
the flue of which you can still see in the
corner of Florence’s kitchen. “Every winter
my mother would buy about six loads of
wood and a ton of coal.” To stretch their
fuel, they would burn wood first and then
add coal to the embers. She warmly recalls
times in that kitchen. “This was our living
room. We had a couch in here, and all
the kids [from the neighbourhood] used
to come and sit in our kitchen, because it
was warm and there was nobody to bother
them. They didn’t run around, they’d just
come and sit, and we’d play games. My
n Alicia Schlag
Community Resident
mother was out working. Sometimes the
lady next door would spot them through
the window and go tell my grandmother,
who would come over and they’d all run
off!” This bittersweet vignette points to
the sad story of child who had to grow
up fast.
Florence’s father died in 1921 when she
was just six years old, her brother four,
and her sister 9 months old. A year later,
her mother began work as a housekeeper
and a very young Florence held the fort.
“It wasn’t very good for me,” she says.
“Right after school [at Lord Selkirk
Elementary], I’d rush down Miller Street
to my grandmother’s to pick up Oliver
and Jean and bring them home to a cold
house. I was seven years old. I remember
carrying Jean.” Florence quit school when
she was 15 to care for the home and her
siblings full time. With no access to the
social life and educational opportunities
of her more fortunate peers, Florence had
little independence until she found work
at Fletcher’s, once a meat packing house
at Kingsway and Commercial. “Fletchers
was the first plant to package bacon,
anywhere!” Soon after, she got a job at
Swift’s, a meat packer in Gastown, and
worked there for 38 years. Her time at
Swift’s made her part of another first,
which she remembers proudly: “We were
the first women to get equal pay in all
of Vancouver.” Florence never married
and has outlived her siblings. But she has
not withdrawn, nor does she seem bitter
about her life. She always has a warm
smile ready for my daughters and me.
She loves to share her many memories,
and when we speak like this I feel like I’m
being given very rare and special gifts to
cherish.
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Cedar Cottage: My Ol’ Neighbour
n Maggie Squires, Community Resident
By old I don’t mean that I’ve known my
neighbour for a long while (I’ve known her
for a few months). Neither do I mean that
my neighbour is old. I don’t know her age
and don’t look at life as advancing in 365day increments. What I mean is that my
ol’ neighbour has lived in Cedar Cottage
for a long time. When other folks moved
on, she stayed on. The first contact with
my ol’ neighbour was out back, by the alley
that runs between her back yard and mine.
It’s the kind of back alley where you find
gardens, garages, and garbage cans and
the activity that defines old neighborhoodsrecycling, composting, washing cars,
chatting over the fence, and games of road
hockey. On that afternoon, my Greek
friend walked into the backyard and said
she liked my garden, at least what she
could see of it. We walked through the rest
of my garden and bantered about methods
(like wrapping the trunk with corrugated
cardboard) that might deter insects from
rolling up and laying eggs inside fruit tree
leaves. Then we crossed the back alley and
looked at her garden of fava beans, fig
trees, and favorite flowers. In the course of
conversation about gardens, we sat down at
the table in her fruit-tree enclosed backyard
and she broke out a jar of fig preserves. I
left with a small fig tree that I planted in
my back yard. Next time we met she was
at my back door. She knocked, and when I
answered she handed over a plate of fresh
figs. She wanted to see how my garden was
doing so we wandered through it and picked
green beans. Over the summer we’ve met
maybe six times. Each of the brief meetings
has been filled with chatter about gardens,
news, and memories. I am grateful for the
neighbourly caring and sharing in my ol’
Cedar Cottage neighbourhood.
Kensington-Cedar Cottage: Young People Shine
n Vivian Xudan Pan
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GLADSTONE SECONDARY
STUDENTS WIN CONTEST FOR IDEA
TO BE PRESENTED IN PARLIAMENT
Kensington-Cedar Cottage is a neighbourhood
bursting with energetic and talented people
in every aspect. Among them are two very
special young people. Maria Gladkikh and
Grinalakshmi (Lakshmi) Soundarapandian
are grade 11 students who attend Gladstone
Secondary, the high school serving our
community. Maria Gladkikh and Grihalakshmi
(Lakshmi) Soundarapandian are the 2011
winners of MP Don Davies’ annual “Create
Your Canada” contest. This is a contest started
by Davies in 2009 in which he invites all grade
11 and 12 students in Vancouver Kingsway to
enter their ideas to improve Canada.
The contest is 100% on-line. The website is interactive
and allows students to learn how laws are made. Davies
takes the winning idea and has it drafted into an actual
federal bill. He then flies the winners to Ottawa for a
tour of Parliament, where they watch as their bill gets
introduced in the House of Commons. Maria and Lakshmi
jointly submitted an idea to develop more power from
clean, sustainable sources. This fall, Davies will escort the
students around Parliament, tour them through the House
of Commons Chamber and the Library of Parliament and
bring them to an actual Caucus meeting. ‘We’re really
excited to go to Ottawa,” said Maria. “Seeing our bill
introduced in Parliament will be amazing,” added Lakshmi.
“This is a great way for youth to share their vision for our
country,” said Davies. “I think it’s also a fun and engaging
introduction to Parliament and the legislative process.”
Our youth are our future – and with people like Maria
and Lakshmi, our country’s in good hands.
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New Playground, New Spirit At Tecumseh Annex
n Heather Legal, Playground Committee Chair
When
parents
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at 37th and Dumfries were
faced with lack of funding
for playgrounds, they took
matters into their own
hands. In December of 2010,
a committee of nine formed
and managed through
stiff competition to win a
national award for funds
matching from Let Them
Be Kids. Over the next
four months, they worked
tirelessly with the support
of the families, staff and
administration of the school
to raise nearly $50,000 and
plan a large festival event.
On June 11, 2011, the dream of
revitalizing the grounds was
met, when in one day over
200 local volunteers came
and rolled up their sleeves
to build a playground. The
day was filled with music
by local artists, excellent
food (The Butler Did It and
Pricesmart) and community
spirit. When all was said
and done, the school had a
beautiful new play structure,
a “five senses garden”, and
a peace place dedicated to
Hiroshima survivor Kinuko
Laskey
(1929-2004),
a
neighbourhood hero and
peace educator. Today the
playground is a gathering
place for families in the
neighbourhood, and what
was an old neglected play
space is now buzzing with
activity every day and each
evening and weekend. The
transformation was more
than a physical one though;
the process of community
building has lead to new
and lasting relationships,
increased communication
and greater support on
photos: Will Minsky
n Shelly Saltzman, Gladstone Teacher
the project at various film
festivals in 2012.
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journey, a list of all our
generous donors, and to
listen to “Let Them Be
Kids”, our theme song
written and performed by
parent Aisling Zweigle,
accompanied by a children’s
chorus of Annex students
and produced by Joe Cruz.
Thank you to hard-working playground
committee members who dedicated their
time to organizing this project: Frankie
DeVita, Pat Dobie, Louise Haut, Aprile
Levens, Nick Levens, Kirsten Meagher,
Jen O’Carroll, Aisling Zweigle.
Gardening Comes To Gladstone
It’s almost always harvest
time at the Gladstone Secondary
School Garden. This past spring
we planted beets, salad greens,
carrots, squash and varieties
of tomatoes, to name only a
few crops. Mr. Richardson also
maintains an almost year-round
herb garden. Our reward was a
bountiful harvest that is being
consumed on an ongoing basis
by students and staff alike. Not
only is the garden a tasty place to
be, but also a place for learning.
This year, plans for the garden
include the planting of cover
rye in order to return nutrients
to the soil and keep nutrients
in place for the coming spring
planting. The rye will be turned
into the soil after the frost.
In addition, members of the
Environmental Youth Alliance
the PAC. Heartfelt thanks
go out to Let Them Be
Kids, the staff at Tecumseh
Annex and the VSB, all of
our individual and corporate
donors, our volunteers for
Build Day, and especially
the school families, who
have come together to
create a better place for
their children. Look for
the Let Them Be Kids
documentary
featuring
and students from UBC’s Land
and Soil Systems will be working
with us to incorporate Science,
Math, Food Studies and English
curricula into our visits to the
garden. Come rain or come shine!
The Wave Social Development
class, along with Food Studies
students, will be working with
EYA and UBC (Think and Eat
Green) to maintain our everchanging food plots. It’s all part
of the bigger picture to promote
food security in urban spaces.
Watch this space, and the
Gladstone Secondary Newsletter
for more garden news updates,
and pictures of students in the
garden. Special thanks to ProOrganics for providing some
funding for learning science and
math through the garden.
community
Engaging KCC Neighbourhoods:
Welwyn Street
chatted and ate with those around them
– people they have been living next to for
years but who until now had been little more
than strangers. Now they are neighbours.
As four o’clock arrived, people began
volunteering to take on responsibilities for a
bigger party next year. We look forward to
seeing everyone some time in August 2012!
n Joshua & Holly Hergesheimer
Community Residents
The Welwyn Street Carnival took place on
a gloriously hot summer day. Funded by the
Vancouver Foundation Neighborhood Small
Grants, the Carnival – entitled ‘Front Yards
and Boulevards’ – asked people to enliven the
block of Welwyn Street between Kingsway
and 22nd Avenue by doing something in
front of their houses. Several homes held
garage sales and the party organizers hosted
a ‘boulevard get together’ with a sound
system, free food, and plenty of activities
for the kids... including threshing grain that
had been grown on the boulevard as part
of the “Lawns to Loaves” project. Over the
afternoon nearly 50 people participated. This
event was the first time many of the residents
of this particular stretch of Welwyn street
had ever met each other. There was a lot of
pointing down the block, saying ‘that is my
house, next to the tall one,’ or, ‘I like your
garden.’ Families met each other’s children
and realized that soon some of the children
would be class mates at the local school.
Several people were grateful for an event to
build community connection. As one older
resident said, ‘I’ve lived here 38 years, and this
is the first time anyone ever tried anything
like this on this street.’ That sentiment was
echoed by many people as they danced,
bank! However over the last few years
there have been some dramatic changes to
our sleepy little neighbourhood and a bit
of a facelift. Of course the most apparent
change has been the big development on
Fraser and 29th with the addition of a lot of
new housing and the addition of three major
chain stores. Besides the obvious changes
to our street there are also a whole range
of new small businesses that are popping
up. “Indulgence” is just what you do when
you try any of the lovely cakes or pastries
that this shop has to offer. The owner/
operator even brought a tray of her goodies
to the local Mountainview Block party.
Further north I came across our very own
medicinal marijuana shop that advertises
a cure for almost every ailment you could
have. The Outpost Café, with its lovely
range of breakfast goodies and beverages,
is a welcome addition to the “hood”. It looks
like we won’t have to go far anymore to get
what we need as Fraser Street now has so
much more to offer!
neighbours and friends who had come out to
hear the new outdoor concert series, Music in
the Park. For three Sundays in August, the
all-volunteer, free music series presented a
n Emily Walter, Community Resident
variety of music, all straight from the heart.
The summer has gone, but not without What a treat. The series kicked off with the
leaving us with special memories. One of gypsy jazz of the Ross Bliss Trio, continued
mine is seeing Grays Park come alive with with the folk/country of the Blue Collar Boys,
and culminated with the Henderson Family
& Friends. Three generations of Hendersons
joined Bill Henderson, of Chilliwack fame,
on the stage. The series’ lead organizer,
Maggie Milne-Martens, wanted the concerts
to be low key, accessible and rooted in our
community. All the musicians were local,
people were encouraged to bring picnics, and
the early evening timing allowed even the
youngest in the neighbourhood to participate.
The kids took full advantage, spilling to all
corners of the park. The result was an event
overflowing with good feeling, as members
of the community paused in their busy
lives to sit back and listen, reconnect with
old and new friends, and enjoy the gentle
summer evenings. For more information or
to inquire about performing, please contact:
[email protected].
Fraser Street
n Sharon Babu, Community Resident
As a long time resident of Fraser Street I
have often talked with friends and neighbours
about my envy of the many shops and
services to be found on our neighbouring
Main Street. To make it worse a number
of shops on Fraser Street have closed or
relocated over the years – we even lost our
Grays Park
arts
n Jay Hamburger, Community Resident
Cedar Cottage by Trout Lake:
Theatre In the Raw in the ‘hood
W
ith
more
than
seventeen years of
live performances under our
belts, Theater In the Raw has
performed numerous times in
and around the Cedar Cottage
neighbourhood.
For those who may not
know, our small house on
Marshall Street within Cedar
Cottage neighbourhood near
Trout Lake Park, has been
for years the place where
theatre activity and survival
of an artistic style has taken
place. A passerby on our
street might catch sight of
bustle in, out and about our
door: movement of stage flats
for play scenery, packing bigband drums, to the sound of
saws and drills building our
sets in the garden, as well as
many a talented and weary
thespian walking up the
front steps for a night’s stay-
over. We have continued our
mandate to direct many a
play towards pressing social
issues that touch on the lives
of those in neighbourhoods all
over the City of Vancouver.
Those in our theatre have
presented
entertaining
musicals, piercing oneacts, classical and original
dramatic mainstage plays,
broadcasted live original
radio scripts and taught
directing/ acting workshops.
We have produced puppet
shows, singing acts, clown
shows, performances in small
cafes, and at major venues
in the Lower Mainland. We
have also put in motion nine
theatre tours in and out of the
Province of British Columbia.
Cedar Cottage is a fascinating
creative place to reside in. We
truly enjoy living and working
within the neighbourhood.
”Abundance Fenced”
a new public artwork on Knight Street
n Karen Henry, Project Manager Public Art Program
I
n October, a reminder of the
dynamic relationship between
nature and culture will appear on
top of the retaining wall on Knight
Street at 33rd Avenue. A grand
steel sculpture by Michael Nicoll
Yahgulanaas will act as a railing
along the pedestrian path leading
down to the corner. The 40+ metre
long artwork is a playful adaptation
of a classic Haida bracelet large
enough for a city to wear. The
work is created in the Haida
Manga style, a mix influenced by
Japanese graphic animation and
West Coast indigenous designs
developed by the artist. Stylized
whales pursue salmon cascading
top of the concrete wall designed
to retain and shape the earth and
is a salute to the greater natural
capacity that nourishes and gives
pleasure in all at its unexpected
appearances.
“Abundance
Fenced” is commissioned by City
of Vancouver Engineering and
the Public Art Program as part of
the Clark-Knight Corridor Public
Art Plan. The plan focuses on
the opportunity of the lengthy
corridor to develop narrative and
consecutive works and proposes
a number of potential artworks
along the route, including banners,
text and graphic works and a light
piece. The recently completed plan
Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Abundance Fenced” in fabrication.
photo credit Jay Hamburger
towards the North Shore mountain
peaks. Located at the centre of the
work, between the whale’s teeth,
is a metaphorical passageway, a
reflection on balance and action.
The work is inspired by the
exceptionally abundant summer
2010 migration of salmon and the
increasingly delicate balance
between natural and urban life.
The Clark-Knight Corridor links the
city to the ocean in the north and
the Fraser River in the south, site of
one of the world’s most significant
salmon runs. The fence sits on
can be found online at:
http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/
cultural/publicart/civic/.
Another
public
artwork
pertinent to the Cedar Cottage
area, by artist Sonny Assu, will
be specially designed street signs
along Kingsway that mark this as a
historic aboriginal trail and wagon
road. If you have questions about
any of these public art projects,
you can contact Karen.henry@
vancouver.ca.
community
Dining in Kensington Cedar Cottage
at the CHAU Veggie Express
n Penelope Bacsfalvi, Community Resident
My friend, Dung, from Vietnam,
had assured me that there is great
vegetarian Vietnamese cuisine and
spoke of her grandmother preparing
such meals, but until CHAU opened
up I had never experienced any. Sleek
and modern CHAU is a surprising
addition to the ever increasing great
dining on Victoria Drive. It is located
smoothie. For dinner I had the # 11
BUN TAM BI - shredded bean curd,
fresh vegetables & herbs, roasted
peanuts, coconut milk, thick noodles
for $7.50. It was delicious and the
portion generous enough that I had
leftovers for my lunch the next day.
For the four of us to eat, including
our shakes, the cost was $38.00- a
at 5052 Victoria Drive right beside long
time establishments like the Duna
Deli (great Hungarian Deli) and the
Calabria Bakery (homey Italian bakery
in the hood for a very long time). Last
Friday night I had just arrived home
after one of those grueling work
weeks and we decided to head off to
CHAU. This was our second visit. And
just like our first visit we
loved the food once again.
As you enter the relatively
small restaurant, there is
seating for 12-14 people at
a long communal table with
stools. More seating comes
in the form of tall stools
at counters around the
perimeter of the room that
seat another 9 people. The
four in my party sat at the
bar in front of the window,
and just in the nick of time.
We arrived at 6:30pm and
within 20 minutes the place
was full, and people kept
arriving. In the end one
group of four ordered take
out as there was no place
to sit. We started with the
shake of the day- a light
coconut shake for 4.25
which was much thinner
and frothier in texture than
a milk shake or smoothie,
and a strawberry-lychee
shake which was a yummy
very reasonable price for healthy,
delicious food. All the food was tasty
with complex flavourings of herbs,
vegetables and sauces. I highly
recommend trying this new little star
in KCC, you won’t be disappointed.
They are open Tuesday to Sunday,
11am to 8pm- check out their website
at: http://www.chowatchau.ca/.
n Caitlin Dorward, Volunteer Communications Coordinator
C
edar Cottage is now home
to BC’s first tool lending
library! Just opened in midJuly at 3448 Commercial Street,
The Vancouver Tool Library
(VTL) has an extensive inventory
of power and hand tools for
home repair and renovation, bike
maintenance, gardening, and
other DIY projects. It operates
like any other library: members
visit the Commercial Street shop
to borrow any tool they need
for a loan period of five days.
Membership is open to anyone
and costs $20 for a lifetime share,
plus a $30 annual maintenance
fee. Low income/student rates are
available and borrowing tools is
free for all members. Over the
coming months, the VTL will
also begin offering affordable
workshops on a variety of tools
and projects.
Although the
library is the first of its kind
in Vancouver, the concept is
not new. Over two dozen tool
libraries have been established
throughout the United States,
some of which have now been
in operation for more than 30
years. They facilitate the sharing
of resources and community
members to “do more with less”;
less waste, less personal economic
investment, and more community
engagement around repairing
and revitalizing the spaces where
we live, work, and play. The
Vancouver Tool Library is a nonprofit organization that operates
on a volunteer basis. Organizers
are currently seeking additional
volunteers to help out in the shop.
Anyone interested is welcome to
apply by emailing volunteer@
vancouvertoollibrary.com
or
stopping by the shop for more
information.
Interested in
becoming a member or finding
out more? Drop by the shop at
3448 Commercial Street during
open hours (Weekends 10am
– 3pm, Tuesdays/Thursdays 4
– 8pm), check out the website
at
www.vancouvertoollibrary.
com, or give them a call at
604.568.8071.
programs
What does literacy mean to you?
Reading a recipe
Choosing a doctor
Understanding new technology
Managing an illness
Balancing a budget
Growing food
When we think of literacy, we usually think of
simply reading and writing. But it’s much more than
that. Literacy encompasses the basic skills people
need to achieve their goals, to develop their potential
n Naomi Klingle-watt
KCC Literacy Coordinator
and to function and thrive in our modern economy.
The Kensington Cedar Cottage Literacy Plan was
developed to highlight ways to strengthen literacy in
our community. This includes making connections,
celebrating skills and knowledge, and nurturing
languages and cultures. Want to learn more about
the KCC Literacy Plan and how you or those you know
can benefit? Please contact Naomi Klingle-Watt at
Cedar Cottage Neighbourhood House.
[email protected]
604-874-4231
Supper Club: A Mosaic of Awesomeness
n Maddie Larken, Youth Volunteer
Y
ou know, it’s kind of neat to be asked
to write an article about the Cedar
Cottage 55+ Supper Club. It’s really
something I love, and how better to show it
than to write an epic extolling the virtues…
accepting of each other. Newbies are welcomed
into the fold and given something nice to drink,
and everyone knows everyone else’s names.
The stories I hear are enough to fill a volume
or two, never mind a 300-word article. The
varied pasts that collide every Wednesday at
four makes this crazy mosaic of awesomeness.
For instance, there’s the fact that Roy’s dog
when he was a boy used to chase rabbits
down holes and get stuck. “Someone get the
shovel, the dog’s stuck in a hole again!” Or
how Jane was a hippie and was at most of
the notable concerts of the day in Southern
California. And the time Mary’s daughter put a
litter of puppies in her basement when she was
visiting from Quesnel, well… you can imagine
how well that went over. Not only that, but
they give excellent advice. Having a fight with
a friend? These folks know the best way to
handle it, no matter what it’s about. Lost in the
wilderness? Roy could tell you precisely how
to deal with it (always have your wallet with
just kidding. I volunteer here on Wednesdays you and hope that there’s a trucking station
after school, and, let me tell you, it’s a riot. I somewhere nearby). Did the wheel fly off of
know everyone by now, and who takes coffee your car in the middle of the Burrard Street
or tea or hot water or hot sauce with their rice. Bridge? Well, they may not be able to fix it
It’s a fabulous atmosphere, and everyone is so for you, but they could tell you the best places
Youth and Senior program
to have a car break down on you (“Right next
to an attractive man with car repair skills” –
Mary). By the way… our friend Harvey is
unwell and has been unable to attend. It’s
really not the same without him and Theresa.
Harvey, we’re all with you and we hope you
two will be back soon.
Thanks and hugs to everyone in Supper
Club, including Maria, Lan, Yee and Alice, who
make it such an awesome place to volunteer
after school. I love it. Seriously.
Thanks, guys. Love, Maddie.
n Nancy Wong, Community Resident
at the Cedar Cottage Neighbourhood House
M
y husband and I joined the youth and
senior program at the Cedar Cottage
Neighbourhood House recently. The program
takes place every Saturday from 10:00am to
1:00ppm. People come here to enjoy each
other’s company. We play games such as
Bingo, cards and Mah Jong. Once in
awhile there will be special events. On
the second of September, we held a
birthday party to celebrate all the people
whose birthday is in the second half of
the year. To give the party more colour
and excitement we celebrated the
birthday and the Chinese Moon Festival
simultaneously. Along with staff and
volunteers, there were about 30 seniors
and a dozen youth who attended. Plenty
of food in different variety was served.
Birthday people were given a present and
then gathered around the big birthday cake to
sing the Happy Birthday song. We had a very
enjoyable and memorable time. We would
like to say thanks to Lan who is responsible
for the program, and a special thanks to
Mrs Ma who managed the food supply and
persuaded Maxim’s Bakery to donate some
cakes for us to take home. We thank all the
volunteers who work very hard to deliver
their part. Because of them, the party was a
great success.
community
The Mount Pleasant Family Centre
is celebrating it’s 35th Anniversary and you are invited!
F
or the past 35 years,
the Family Centre
in
Robson
Park
has been an integral part
of the day-to-day life of
numerous young families in
our community by offering
free drop-in programs for
parents and caregivers with children age 0 to 6.
To acknowledge our staff’s dedication and
celebrate the wonderful connections and
friendships that started in and around our Centre,
we would like to invite you to our Anniversary
Celebration with buffet dinner, birthday cake,
DJ,
silent
auction
and
above
all
a
chance
to
bring
back
memories
at Capri Hall on Friday November 4th, 2011.
Please visit our website at
www.mpfamilycentre.ca for more information.
Tickets will be available from October 12th.
Cedar Cottage Neighbourhood and Vancouver 125
n Jenny Kwan, MLA Vancouver-Mount Pleasant
“Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of
caring. Caring is the art of sharing Sharing is the
art of living.”- Booker T. Washington
I’ve had the great honour of being the MLA
for Vancouver-Mount Pleasant since 1996,
and in all these years I have always enjoyed
celebrating community events with the Cedar
Cottage Neighbourhood House. The history of
Cedar Cottage is made up of the lives of everyday
people, who share with others in their good times,
and who are there to support each other when
someone is in need. This is a neighbourhood
where people can come together to celebrate
events such as the Lunar New year and the
Community Carnival because any one person’s
happiness has become a cause for a collective
joy. I want to thank the Neighbourhood House
participants, the staff, and volunteers who have
created a very special place where people can
come together and really care for one another.
That’s more than just a historical legacy, it’s a
place where history is alive right now, where
today’s stories will become tomorrow’s history of
a strong and loving community.
v生活是愛的藝術, 愛是關懷的藝術, 關懷是分享的藝術, 分享即是生活的藝術。
-- Booker T. Washington
很榮幸我自1996年以來擔任溫哥華快樂山區的省議員。一直以來我都非常喜愛參與雪松屋
鄰舍之家的社區活動。雪松屋鄰舍之家的歷史是由一般市井小民所譜寫的,他們與人有福
同享, 並在他人有需要時伸出援手。大家在此同樂同慶, 一起慶祝農曆新年、社區嘉年華活
動。在此, 各人的快樂造就了眾人的快樂。我要感謝所有參與者, 工作人員, 和志願者一同創
造了這片另大眾可同聚並互相關懷的天地。在這個優秀、充滿愛的社區內, 今日的故事將成
為明日的歷史。這不只是一項歷史遺產, 這裡正是歷史的所在。
The Dickens Community
Group is always looking for
new volunteers for our various
activities, such as garden projects,
clean ups, etc and especially
for our foot, pooch and/or bike
Patrols.
People living in & around the area
(Fraser to Knight & East 12th Ave.
to East King Edward) are welcome
to contact:
Peter at [email protected] or
the
South Vancouver Community
Policing Centre
(contact Adrien Balazs,
Coordinator at
[email protected]
Tel.: 604-717-2940
Visit our Web Site at http://
dickensgroup.web.fc2.com
Community Christmas Concert
with the Vancouver Concert Band
at Dickens Main School Gym
(1010 East 17th Ave.) - Enter from
Windsor Street
Wednesday Dec. 14th. at 7pm
n Ray Morgan, Comic Artist
The KCC Neighbour Newspaper needs your help! Join Us!
The KCC Neighbour is a community newspaper by and for people living in the Kensington/Cedar
Cottage community. The KCC Neighbour Committee members and our Newspaper team are local
residents and business owners who work alongside Cedar Cottage Neighbourhood House to produce
each publication. We are committed to a partnership between residents; businesses and organizations to produce a community newspaper that helps us to all feel connected.
Volunteer now!
Family Funnies
n Jean Woodcook,
Famlily Place Coodinator
The KCC Neighbour relies on community members to share their interests and points of view through
articles, stories and photographs. We welcome stories reflecting the contributions of our community
members. We invite you to volunteer. Think of ways you want to contribute, please share your skills
with our Committee.
• Help with layout
• Work with local youth and teach about journalism, graphics, etc
• Teach volunteers graphic design
• Advertise your business
• Write stories
• Interview residents
Please submit content for our January edition to:
[email protected] or
Drop off at Cedar Cottage Neighbourhood House
4065 Victoria Drive
Give us a call at 604 874-4231
community
A Historical orchard returns to its apple roots!
n Jodi Peters, EYA Program Coordinator
At the turn of the 20th century, the
grassy field that lies between Walker St
and Copley St, just north of the Skytrain
station was an orchard, owned by
Richard Theophilus Copley. According
to City of Vancouver archives, he had
“fine gardens” and an apple orchard.
He also sold apple trees to all his
neighbours, for 10 cents each, because
he enjoyed setting up his neighbours
with their own fruit! All that remains
of this hub of old-time local food
production are several gnarled trees
that, despite being riddled with disease,
still produce a significant amount of
fruit, which neighourhood foragers
enjoy today. Recently City of Vancouver
staff (the land is owned by the city’s
real estate branch) got in touch with
the Environmental Youth Alliance(EYA)
to see if we would be interested in
working with local residents and
community groups to create a project
that celebrates organic fruit production
and creates a welcoming, safe and
enjoyable space for the neighbourhood
to enjoy. This summer the EYA was
awarded a grant from the city, and a
5-year license to develop the site. We
held an open house on August 24th
in the Copley field to introduce the
idea to neighbours. We heard lots of
exciting ideas as well as important
considerations to keep in
mind for making the project a
success. What exactly is the
plan? A group of keen residents
got together with the EYA for
the first planning meeting on
September 20th to come up
with an answer to that question.
Packed into a room at the
Cedar Cottage Neighborhood
House, the group was assisted
by Community Studio, a group
of professional landscape
architects and planners who
volunteer their time to help
community projects. After 2
hours of hard work, tracing
paper in the shape of the Copley
site was covered with visions
of meandering pathways,
an incredible diversity of
fruit trees and berry bushes,
benches, pollinator-attracting
flower gardens, herbs, bee
hives, play spaces for children
and easily accessible areas
for seniors. Programming
ideas include community
harvest festivals, community kitchen
workshops, pruning and other fruit tree
care education, youth apprenticeship,
volunteer opportunities, engaging local
schools, and much more! Keep an eye
out for signs on the site that will explain
the details of the design and upcoming
events. Physical work on the site will
really get going early next spring,
but there is lots of planning to do all
winter! Anyone who would like more
information about the project or would
like to get involved, please contact Jodi
Peters at the EYA. Email: jodipeters@
eya.ca Phone: 604-689-4446.
Gibby’s Field to Receive One of 125 Places
That Matter Plaques
n Dan Fass, Community Resident
Gibby’s Field has been written about
in previous editions of KCC Neighbour
It is the name given to three City lots
(one of them a double lot) on East 18th
Avenue between Dumfries and Knight.
Gibby’s Field is named after Old Man
Gibby, the name local children gave to
Moses Gibson (1850-1937), who at one
time owned the City lots and all the land
from Knight to Bellavista, and from 20th
Avenue (once called Gibson Road) to
18th. Gibby’s Field lies just downhill
from the meeting point of two local
creeks, Davey Creek and Gibson Creek.
It contains a piece of creek bed that is
all that remains of the once-vast China
Creek system. A citizen’s group, the
Gibby’s Field Subcommittee, is seeking
to preserve Gibby’s Field as a community
greenspace. Earlier this year, Gibby’s
Field was entered in a competition
called Places That Matter to Vancouver,
A Commemorative Plaque Project
marking Vancouver’s 125th, organized
by the Vancouver Heritage Foundation.
About 200 sites were nominated. An
11 person Site Selection Committee
including well-known historians John
Atkin and Michael Kluckner had to select
125 sites. It was announced in August
that Gibby’s Field was one of the sites
to receive a commemorative plaque. For
more information about Gibby’s Field,
see www.vcn.bc.ca/gibbys where you can
find a 32-page booklet called Historical
Walking Tour of Gibson Creek Through
Kensington/Cedar Cottage, available as
a PDF. The booklet includes a colour
map of KCC and describes the history of
much of KCC.
community
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[email protected]
TROUT LAKE COMMUNITY CENTRE
GET UP ‘N GO - SATURDAY PROGRAMS
GLADSTONE HIGH SCHOOL
4105 GLADSTONE STREET, VANCOUVER
SEPTEMBER 17-DECEMBER 3, 2011 (CLOSED OCT 8, NOV 12)
GYM A
GYM B
GYM C
Badminton Court Rental
Soccer-Drop-in Gr K-3
9:00am-10:00am Sep 17-Dec 3 FREE
Floor Hockey Gr 5-7
Floor Hockey Drop-in Gr 1-4
Badminton Drop in All Ages
11:45am-12:45pm Sep 17-Dec 3
$8/10 sessions or $2 drop-in
Indoor Tennis Parent and Tot 3-5yrs
1:00pm-1:30pm Sept 17-Oct 22
Oct 29-Dec 3
$23/5 sessions
Indoor Tennis 6-8yrs
1:35pm-2:20pm Sept 17-Oct 22
Oct 29-Dec 3
$34/5 sessions
Indoor Tennis 9-12yrs
2:30pm-3:15pm Sept 17-Oct 22
$34/5 sessions
Indoor Tennis 13+yrs
2:30pm-3:30pm Oct 29-Dec 3
$45/5 sessions
Tennis
Court Location: Tennis Lessons take
place at Gladstone High School
Parent and Tot Indoor Tennis
3-5yrs
Gord Haukas Tennis
Enjoy with a parent. Learn your beginning
strokes in a fun and nurturing atmosphere.
Parent must participate with child.
Sat
Sept 17-Oct 22
1:00-1:30pm
Sat
Oct 29-Dec 3
1:00-1:30pm
$23/5 sessions
Indoor Tennis
6+yrs
Gord Haukas Tennis
Beginner/Novice. Learn forehand and
backhand ground strokes, volleys and
serve. Singles and doubles play.
6-8yrs Sat Sep 17-Oct 22 1:35-2:20pm
Sat
Oct 29-Dec 3
1:35-2:20pm
$34/5 sessions
9-12yrs Sat Sep 17-Oct 22 2:30-3:15pm
$34/5 sessions
13+yrs Sat Oct 29-Dec 3 2:30-3:30pm
$45/5 sessions
Basketball Drop-in Gr 8-12
11:00am-12:00pm Sep 17-Dec 3 FREE
Basketball Drop-in Gr 5-7
12:00pm-1:00pm Sep 17-Dec 3 FREE
9:30-11:30am Sep 17-Dec 3
$30/10 sessions/family or
$5/drop-in/family
Register at
Trout Lake Community Centre.
www.troutlakecc.com
604-257-6955
Cash only for Drop-in fees
at Gladstone High School
Volleyball Gr 8-12
1:30pm-2:45pm Sep 17-Dec 3 FREE
Adult Badminton Drop in 18+yrs
Adult Volleyball 18+yrs
2:45pm-4:00pm Sep 17-Dec 3
$10/10 sessions or $2/drop-in
1:00pm-2:30pm
Sep 17-Dec 3
$10/10 sessions or $2/drop in
Adult Badminton Drop-in 18+yrs
2:30pm-4:00pm
Sep 17-Dec 3
$10/10 sessions or $2/drop in
Trout Lake
9:00am-10:30am Sep 17-Dec 3
$12/hour – 1 Court $2/person/drop in
Parent & Tot Open Gym 1-5yrs
HALLWAY
Table Tennis Drop In (All ages)
9:00am-3:30pm Sep 17-Dec 3
$2/adult $1/child/youth/senior
Equipment provided
Adults
All programs located at Gladstone High School
4105 Gladstone Street, No classes Oct 8, Nov 12.
Sport Drop-in Policy
Registered participants have until 10
minutes after activity start time to
arrive, any open spots at that time will
be given to drop-in participants on a
1st come 1st serve basis
(Badminton, Volleyball).
Badminton Drop-in
Come in and play badminton. All ages
welcome.
Sat Sep 17- Dec 3
11:45-12:45pm
$8/10 sessions or $2/drop-in
Table Tennis Drop-in
Equipment provided.
Sat Sep 17- Dec 3
9:00am-3:30pm
$2/adults; $1/child/youth/senior
Badminton
18+yrs
Register for either one or two sessions
Sat
Sep 17-Dec 3
1:00-2:30pm
Sat
Sep 17-Dec 3
2:30-4:00pm
$2/drop-in or $10/10 sessions
Volleyball
Sat
18+yrs
Sep 17-Dec 3
2:45-4:00pm
$2/drop-in or $10/10 sessions
Badminton Court Rentals
In person registrations on Saturday.
Bookings may be made in person or
by phone two weeks in advance. Full
payment must be made when booking.
Partial refund given for cancellations with
more than 24 hours notice. No refunds
with 24 hours or less.
Sat
Sep 17- Dec 3
9:00-10:30am
$12/hour/1 court; $2/person drop-in
Phone-In Registration begins Monday, August 15 @ 9am
calendar
What’s happenin’...
KENSINGTON LIBRARY
3350 Victoria Drive, 604-257-6955
DICKENS COMMUNITY
GROUP
http://dickensgroup.hp.infoseek.co.jp
MAN IN THE MOON
Sat Nov 5-Dec 17
10:15am-11:15am
A unique program for dads
and all male caregivers
Nov
5
Fri
BABY TIME & FAMILY
STORY TIME
Come and share songs,
rhymes, and stories at
Babytime and Family Story
time. 11:15am (baby time);
10:15am(family story time)
Dec
14,
COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS
CONCERT
7:00pm
1010 East 17th Avenue
Enter from Windsor Street
MOUNTAIN VIEW
NEIGHBOURHOOD
ASSOCIATION
http://www.mountain-view.ca
* New on Facebook too!
facebook.com/group.php?gid=20891199168
MOUNTAIN VIEW’S PATROLS LOOKING
FOR VOLUNTEERS
Email Kam for more information: svcpc@
telus.net
HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE Mable Elmore,
MLA, Vancouver-Kensington
Dec
CEDAR COTTAGE
NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSE
4065 Victoria Drive, 604-874-4231
http://www.cedarcottage.org
Dec
15
MULTICULTURAL
CELEBRATIONS
We invite you to join us
monthly to celebrate, learn
and share cultures in our
community. Everyone is
welcome. Lots of fun activities for all ages, food and
cultural activities.
6:00-8:00 pm.
$2/person Limited tickets
that must be purchased in
advance
Aboriginal Celebration
Thursday, November 24th
Lunar New Year Celebration
February 4th 2012
Spring Into Culture
March 15th 2012
14
6106 Fraser Street (4:00-7:00pm)
Please bring a donation for the Food Bank
For more information, please call
604 775-1033
Join the KCC Literacy Task Force Committee.
Working together to strengthen Literacy in our community.
Contact Naomi to become involved
[email protected]
Next Meeting: November 2nd 2011
FREE Health Services for
Children Birth to Age 5
PUBLIC HEALTH RECOMMENDS…
 A hearing check at birth (for children born in 2009 or later). Any
questions about your child’s hearing? Call 604-736-2033 and ask to
speak with a Public Health Nurse in your area.
 Vaccination against common diseases at 2 months, 4 months, 6 months,
12 months, 18 months and again between 4 and 6 years old. To book an
appointment at a Child Health Clinic in your area call 604-736-2033.
 Regular growth and development checks at 2 months, 4 months, 6
months, 9 months, 12 months, 18 months, 24 months and then yearly.
Any questions about your child’s growth, development or behaviour? Call
604-736-2033 and ask to speak with a Public Health Nurse in your area.
 Seeing a dentist by age 1. The Grandview-Woodland Dental Clinic
offers free prevention appointments for your child. Call 604-675-3981
to book an appointment.
 Eating family foods and using a cup by age 1. Any questions about
your child’s eating? Call 811 and ask to speak to a Dietitian.
 Starting to talk by age 2. Any questions about your child’s speech? Call
604-736-2033 and ask to speak with a Public Health Nurse in your area.
 A vision check at age 3. Healthy eyes are important for learning. To
make an appointment at a free vision screening clinic call 604-654-2640.
www.vch.ca
your health
infants and children
KENSINGTON
COMMUNITY CENTRE
5174 Dumfries Street , 604-718-6200
Dec
17
BREAKFAST WITH SANTA
Sat 9:30-11:30am
$6/members or $7 for nonmembers. Join your neighbours and friends. There
will be a pancake breakfast,
arts & crafts, entertainment
and a vist from Santa.
Dec
3
Jan
7
to
13
April
7
HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR
10:00am – 4:00pm
Children must be accompanied by an adult. Free
admission
FITNESS OPEN HOUSE
Come and speak to our staff
about our Fitness Centre
and try it out for FREE.
BREAKFAST WITH BUNNY
Stay tuned for more
information on tickets
TROUT LAKE
COMMUNITY CENTRE
3350 Victoria Drive, 604-257-6955
Jan
A new piece of history will
start in Cedar Cottage,
with the opening of the
new Trout Lake Community
Centre. We will celebrate
the history of this area and
its people, their struggles
and achievements, the
richness of its many cultures, both past and present and the significant
places and events that
instil pride in those living
here. Participate in live
music, live performances,
program demos, free skate,
free access to the new
fitness centre, active children’s play including art
activities, refreshments and
lots more! Don’t miss this
spectacular event. Family
fun for everyone! Programs
are scheduled to start mid
January.
21
RUTH MORTON
MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH
791 East 27th Avenue 604-876-0630
Thurs
TEA N TOTS
Time for a break with a cup
of tea! Bring yourself and
your little one to Tea n Tots
every week. Come by and
meet other parents or caregivers and their tots. Bring
a snack to share
Thursdays
9:30am to 11:30am
Vancouver Votes
November 19, 2011
It’s your chance to choose.
Be ready
•Gotovancouver.ca/vote to see if you
are eligible to vote, and use the easy
search features:
• AmIontheVotersList?
• WheredoIvote?
•Alleligiblevoterscanvoteinadvance,
November 9 to 16 daily
•Youmaybeeligibletovotebymail
Be informed
•Call 3-1-1 with voting questions and for
translation services in over 180 languages
•TheVancouverVotersGuide, published in
late October, goes to households, community
centres and libraries. It has candidate profiles,
capital plan details, and all the information
you need. View it at vancouver.ca/vote.
While online, look for the Elections iPhone app.
•MeettheCity’soutreachteamatcommunity
events throughout Vancouver
Be a voter
• Votingconnectsyoutoyourcommunity
• Ittakesjustalittletimeinyourbusylife,butthe
impact is significant
• Yourvoteisyourvoice.Beheard–BE A VOTER
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Edition 15 Nov 2011 - Cedar Cottage Neighbourhood

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