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CELEBRATING 100 YEARS!

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2012 Lynn Valley Days offers many Centennial-themed events

While much has changed in Lynn Valley in the past century, when it comes to the festival, much has also stayed the same. “The businesses here started this as a way to say thank you to the community for its support and to have a day to kick back and relax. We still like to try and do it that way,” says Rasmus, who co-chairs the event with Lynn Valley Community Association president Eric Muira. “Other than the rides and

Rasmus is a member of the Lynn Valley Lions Club, which has been shepherding the event for more than three decades. “Our club looks at this as a way of thanking Lynn Valley for the support they give us. They buy our Christmas trees and support us when we’re out shaking the can collecting money and so on.” The 2012 event begins May 25 with an dinner, dance and silent auction under the big tent at Lynn Valley Park. The next day is a family-oriented extravaganza at the same site that sees live bands performing all day while kids can take part in arts and crafts at the Imagination Station as well as enjoy face painting, balloon art and clowns. A car show and shine is also on

tap, as well as dog agility shows, May Pole dancing, chainsaw carving and displays by the North Vancouver Museum and Archives. To hearken back to the inaugural edition of the festival, this year’s event will also resurrect games played at the first Lynn Valley Day — such as the egg-on-the-spoon and gunny sack races, a ladies’ naildriving contest and tug-of-war. One of the linchpins of any Lynn Valley Days festival is the Saturday morning parade. Upwards of six hundred people take part in the spectacle each year. This year’s march, however, marks a bittersweet occasion for Terry Nichols, who has acted as parade marshall for 36 years. After this year’s event, Nichols, 70, will hand over the baton — and his bullhorn — to coorganizer Gillian Konst.

Nichols admits he will miss his annual duties assembling and directing entrants as they embark on the parade route down Lynn Valley Road and up Mountain Highway. “I’m a depressed individual after the parade’s finished because all my ego’s gone,” he says, and laughs. For Nichols, the best part of being involved in the parade has always been the many children who line the sidewalks to watch the procession. “Rain or shine, they’ll all turn up. They always come and they always smile. It’s so wholesome and heart-rending, because they grow up so fast.”

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“This one’s my swan song,” says

Nichols, with a still-pronounced lilt that lingers from his younger days in Tottenham, England. “I just absolutely love doing it, but I’m getting old. I’m getting testy. I’ve had my fun. It’s time to pass it on to somebody younger, with more enthusiasm.”

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It’s been a hundred years since the inaugural local celebration was held back in 1912, and a number of Centennial-themed events are planned to mark the occasion at this year’s festival May 25 and 26.

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The 2012 edition of the annual Lynn Valley Days festival is a major milestone for co-chair Bob Rasmus and his battalion of volunteers.

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Lynn Valley Days Maypole dancers.

Much like the dale for which it’s named, the Lynn Valley Days festival is steeped in history. The inaugural Lynn Valley Day festival in 1912 dovetailed with the grand opening of the Lynn Canyon Park and Suspension Bridge, and festivities continued at the new Institute Hall on Mountain Highway after the ribbon cutting. The memoirs of longtime Lynn Valley resident Walter Draycott show a recessionary bust in 1913 that followed the boom times of 1911-’12 led to the festival’s hiatus until the Great War was over and the soldiers returned from overseas. In 1919, Draycott reported that the festival made a return and hosted competitions in such events as human wheelbarrow, three-legged race, hat trimming and needle threading. One year later the festival was held on Aug. 21 and Draycott, a WWI veteran and now Lynn Valley Day organizer, noted that “Weather was perfect, also the attendance — over 1,000.” However, he seemed less

than enthused with the local politicians, writing: “Neither the Reeve, Council or Trustees had seen military service, which excused them for their lack of knowledge in organizing, discipline and comradeship.”

of Huckleback leading the procession. “He was an extremely colourful character,” says Nichols. “He knew how to ride his horse and he’d carry his rifle, and that rifle was loaded. But he had that horse under control, and the kids just loved him.”

In 1946, Lynn Valley Day merged with the formerly separate May Day celebration, making the May Pole dance an integral part of Lynn Valley Day festivals from that day forward. To this day, dancers still gather at the base of a “May Pole” each year and ceremonially weave ribbons as they whirl around the pole in a custom that dates back to spring fertility rites. Though the practice has been abandoned now, in earlier days, a “May Queen” would also be named at each festival. Helen Hall was crowned the very first Lynn Valley Queen at the 1946 joint celebration. In the 1960s and ‘70s a regular and popular feature of the parade was the presence of local actor and storyteller Melvin Burritt in his “Silas

Lynn Valley Days celebrates 100 years of community spirit

Nichols admits that he misses the days when the parade was punctuated by unique characters like Huckleback. “Now you have to put up with politicians,” he says, and laughs.

Huckleback” persona. Burritt would ride up and down the length of the parade route in buckskin buffalo togs of his own making, fringes flying, astride a trusty steed, rifle by his side. Terry Nichols, who has been parade marshall for 36 years, remembers fondly the days

Perhaps one of the best accounts of the aftermath of a Lynn Valley Day Festival comes from a newspaper clipping authored by Allen MacSween on the 1946 edition of the annual festival. “…A huge dance completed a very full day,” he writes. “Not much work was done in the Valley the next day, and many parched tongues and fevered brows blessed the clear, cold water supply. No one went to jail, it is a pleasure to report.”

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7:30AM - 10:00AM Lynn Valley Lion’s Pancake Breakfast Coffee House sponsored by Delany’s 10:00AM - 11:20AM Parade From Mollie Nye Way to Lynn Valley Park 11:00AM - 4:00PM Lynn Valley Lion’s Cook Shack Traditional summertime favourites: burgers, hotdogs, fries, pop, coffee etc… All Day Colouring Contest Face Painting & Balloon Art Imagination Play Area Toddlers Play Area 9:00AM - 4:00PM Show & Shine Antique Sports Cars located on Institute Road (weather permitting) 9:00AM - 4:00PM Ride Zone Located on the all-weather field of Lynn Valley School 10:15AM - 10:45AM Jazzercise 11:00AM - 2:00PM Jeopardy on Stage

11:00AM - 3:00PM Heritage Hat Workshop 11:00AM - 4:00PM Wood Carving 11:30AM Parent & Child Balloon Toss 11:30AM - 2:00PM Ladies Nail Driving 12 NOON Egg & Spoon Race 12:30PM - 12:50PM Dog Agility Demo 12:30PM Kids Under 12 Sack Race 1:00PM & 2:00PM & 3:00PM Maypole Dancers 1:00PM - 2:30PM Races & Games 1:00PM - 2:30PM Hot Wheels Race 2:30PM Colouring Contest Closes 2:40PM - 3:00PM Dog Agility Demo 3:10PM RNB Dance 3:15PM Hot Wheels Awards 3:30PM Car Show Awards

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Lynn Valley history tied to the lumber industry and recreation In the early years of Lynn Valley’s lumbering history, one of the most popular woods was cedar for making shingles. The wood was split and cut into four foot lengths, or ‘bolts, which were sent down a water-lined flume to Burrard Inlet for the Hastings Mill in Vancouver. The first Lynn Valley mill was built in March 1903 in the Upper Lynn area for the Hastings Shingle Manufacturing Company. Lynn Valley’s Mill Street is today a reminder of the location of this frontier enterprise. When a fire occurred at the main Hastings mill in Vancouver, some of the machine-saws were recovered, re-conditioned and hauled up from Moodyville on sleds by teams of horses to the foundation of the new mill just above Dempsey Road.

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company decided to close the mill. The equipment was supposed to be dismantled and shipped out, but Thomas Allan, master of the mills’ stores, and mill manager Julius Fromme approached the owners and arranged to take it over and the Lynn Valley Lumber Company was born. Thomas Allan sold his share to Fromme, who paid off the company debt by selling portions of his land grant for $250 an acre. Forestry also played a part in the opening of the Lynn Canyon Park.

that for beauty and grandeur is unsurpassed on the North Shore of the Burrard Inlet.’ One person who drew inspiration from the park was world renowned painter and member of the Group of Seven, Fred Varley. Varley spent the happiest years of his life in a cottage at 4395 Rice Lake Road where he created a significant portion of his body of work. As the North Shore population grew, pressure increased to develop areas of Lynn Valley around the park. In 1989, over 800 people packed a meeting of the North

Vancouver District Council where a plan to develop the wilderness between Lynn Creek and the Seymour River for 1,900 new homes. District Council, working with citizens groups and the Greater Vancouver Water District, eventually settled on a plan that added a further 241 hectares to the park. Today, the Lynn Canyon Park is home to the Lynn Canyon Ecology Centre, the Suspension Bridge and gift shop as well as one of the most popular networks of hiking trails in the Lower Mainland.

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In the bustling mid years of the 19th century, the soaring timbers of the B.C. coastal forest became a valuable resource to help build a growing British Empire and developing world.

Originally a parcel comprised of 12 acres donated by the forestworking McTavish Brothers and 10 acres purchased by the District of North Vancouver, today the park has grown to encompass 617 acres of watershed, hiking trails and swimming holes. From the beginning the majesty of the canyon and the cool depths of the forest were an enormous attraction and the park was hailed as ‘property

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100 Years of transportation at the heart of Lynn Valley Days Lynn Valley Queen.

When you live on the side of a mountain, surrounded by deep forests, canyons and creeks, arranging transportation will become central to your existence.

out, but it was still a bit of an ordeal for people to travel to and from the new population centre.

In the mid-1800’s, Lynn Valley was barely in its infancy. The area’s rich forest reserves had been discovered, but getting them out was not going to prove easy. In the early years, the Tote Roadnow the area of Ross Road- was the only direct connection to the mills at Moodyville. Transportaion to and from Moodyville was by oxen, who dragged the earliest timbers out of the virgin forest to the outside world. Eventually a flume system was put in place to ship the lumber

On Friday May 13, 1912, the first street car shuttled down the new Lynn Valley Line of the British Columbia Electric Railway Company and came to a stop just past Lynn Valley School where the railway’s local manager, Mr. A.G. Perry, was presented with a bronzed key made of Lynn Valley wood by Sadie Alan, young daughter of a district councillor. With growth came change and as the automobile became increasingly popular, forestry roads became paved suburban streets. The Pipeline road that carried water from Rice Lake to North Vancouver became Lynn

Valley Road and Centre Road became Mountain Highway. Local businesses got into the act as well. The delivery truck for the popular local dairyman T.P. Harbottle was a regular sight on local streets. The truck was restored by Harbttle’s son Jeff and donated to the City of North Vancouver Museum. On Saturday May 12th, you can see the restored Harbottle milk truck as part of the Lynn Valley Days car show being held at Lynn Valley Park. There will also be a Hot Wheels Drag Racing Tournament from 1:00 - 2:30 pm. Kids can bring their own cars or use cars provided by the organizers. You can win Hot Wheels cars and there will also be a special award for the day’s champion.

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