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North Van heritage homes moved Saving pieces of history is a passion MARIA SPITALE-LEISK mspitale-leisk@nsnews.com
While some couples collect art or small antiques, Heather Patterson and her boyfriend have a penchant for accumulating entire heritage homes. The couple has started their collection with a set of turn-of-thecentury houses in the 200 block of East Fifth St. in North Vancouver. The purchase price was a steal: $1 for both, a proposition made by a developer looking to save the homes from demolition. The catch: Patterson and her boyfriend, Sean McQuillan, had to find the land and pay for the associated costs with moving, trucking and barging the homes to a new location. Approximately $200,000 later, Patterson is still elated with her heritage finds.The couple’s plan is to create an enclave of old-fashioned homes, piece-by-piece, on a street in Maple Ridge richly steeped in B.C.
history — starting with the two former Lower Lonsdale abodes. Throughout the past week, Patterson watched from the sidewalk on Fifth Street as workers carefully hoisted her Edwardian-style stunner and the other character home from their foundations. “I was a little bit nervous because one of the houses appeared to be offset,” said Patterson. A woman who grew up in one of the homes stopped by to chat and reminisce about the home her greatgrandfather built. Her husband who “courted” her while she was living in the character home was by her side to watch the excavation. “She told us fun stories about where she used to suntan on the roof,” said Patterson. It’s tales like those that inspire Patterson to want to preserve a piece of history. “I’m a little soft, I like the stories of the homes, too,” she said. The Ward Residence, one of the two homes, has plenty of Edwardian character. Built for jeweller Benjamin Stewart, the home still boasts its original old wood frame windows. See Old page 9
Cougar shot after trying to enter North Van home MARIA SPITALE-LEISK mspitale-leisk@nsnews.com
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A skinny juvenile cougar was shot dead in Deep Cove by conservation officers Thursday evening after it clawed at a door and tried to get inside a home. “And it would just not leave and was constantly pressing against the door handle,” said conservation officer Todd Hunter, of a report given by the homeowner. The incident unfolded around 8:30 p.m. in the backyard of a home in the 2000-block of Panorama Drive, a couple blocks from the popular Quarry Rock hiking trail.
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North Vancouver RCMP officers observed the cougar sitting upright and then climbing a tree to a height of 10 metres. Once conservation officers arrived, they saw the big cat showed no signs of fear and it was destroyed, said Hunter. At the neighbouring property, John Evoy heard the commotion as conservation officers shot the cougar, estimated to be no more than oneand-a-half years old. “It was pretty loud,” said Evoy. Evoy couldn’t believe his eyes when around 9 a.m. Friday morning
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