THE No. 33
BEACON Shedding light on the communities from Lions Bay to West Bay
March /April 2019
Why ‘Tiddly Cove’?
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Mountains to Sea
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Home & Living
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Building belonging
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Art and poetry
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A Skill for typewriters
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IN THIS ISSUE 4
Frank Townsley’s watercolour of Tiddly Cove enclosed by the fog at sea.
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ittle has changed since Francis Caulfeild first discovered Skunk Cove in 1898. While touring the coast of Burrard Inlet he was charmed by the cove’s quiet beauty. The sheltered area was a natural preserve for wildlife, a home to deer, geese, ducks, beaver and the occasional bear. After purchasing the land around and rising from the cove he renamed it Caulfeild Cove and began developing Caulfeild Village. The development must have taken place quickly and efficiently because in 1906 Francis wrote in his diary: “So after tea we sit for a while in the verandah and listen to the small waves making music on the rocks, watch the salmon jumping in the bay, and the pearly light on the sea.” (ref: West Vancouver Archives) Many years later, as one story has been told, cartoonist Len Norris described Caulfeild residents tripping down to the cove with their drinks and getting ‘tiddly.’ Tiddly Cove was born.
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