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Chief Dan George
Long before the first white men sailed their tall ships up Burrard
Inlet, Chief Dan George's ancestors crossed the mountains and settled
on the wooded shores of Indian Arm. They were a large and powerful
tribe called the Sleil-waututh, which means "People of the inlet". |
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Vivienne Coverdale
It
was a traumatic experience to say the least arriving in Deep Cove
the September of 1948. Her father Thomas Chalker and mother Ruby
brought 15 year old Vivienne and 12 year old Maureen to Deep Cove
all the way from Bombay, India. Thomas was Embarkation Commandant
for the British India Army in Bombay in 1948 and was forced to
leave when India gained independence. Friend and colleague Jack
Villiers had already arrived in Canada and wrote to him that Deep
Cove was the only place in the British Commonwealth to be!
So without delay the family boarded a freighter (which was picking
up scrap metal from around the Pacific) and they travelled via
Ceylon, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Manila to Los Angeles. From there
it was a train ride to Vancouver and a taxi ride over the railway
bridge and along a dirt road to Deep Cove. It was quite devastating
for these two teenagers finding themselves in this small summer
resort with only summer cottages, a cafe, dance hall and Doctor
Miller's Boys Camp.
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John Moore
Among Deep Cove's first settlers were John and Rhoda Moore, who
moved to the area with their five children in 1919. Later, they
would have two more children, among the first to be born in the
area. John Moore had spent 20 years in the wilderness in northern
B.C. before he married Rhoda, so he was well equipped to handle
pioneer life in Deep Cove.
He and Rhoda, who was 20 years his junior, and their children lived
in Vancouver where John worked on the waterfront. Unemployment was
high and one day, Moore decided to move his family to the remote
Deepwater area. He came home one evening and announced over the
supper table that the family was about to embark on a new adventure.
"We were living in Vancouver at that time at Campbell and Hastings,"
said John Moore Jr., "Unknown to the family, my father went to North
Vancouver and bought two lots in Deep Cove at Burns and Second.
He paid $15 each for these lots. One day at the dinner table he
told mother we were going to move to Deep Cove." The Moores rowed
across from the B.C. Sugar Refinery to Deep Cove and arrived at
the lots which were surrounded by wilderness. Then they rowed back
home and discussed their future plans. |
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Art George
"In 1930, there was no electric light
in Deep Cove, everything was kerosene —it was the big commodity
in those days... and I think we had the honour of having the second
telephone in Deep Cove," said Art. "Corfield's Dance Hall had a
telephone and its number was 273M and our number was 274M. They
were the only two telephones. We had no deliveries. We did get a
paper delivered about a mile away at Robinson's store on Burns Avenue.
He carried camping supplies and we'd walk down to get the paper."
When the Lodge needed milk, Art would row over to Percy Cummins'
store in Dollarton.
"When we were operating the Lodge, to get milk supplies we would
row down to Roche Point and hike up through the hill to Cummins.
They had cows in those days... we used to get the cans of milk and
row them all the way back to Deep Cove." |
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