Registration through the West Vancouver Library:

https://westvanlibrary.ca/event/local-voices-holiday-1909-with-lid-hawkins/

In 1909, four members of the BC Mountaineering Club hiked into the Seymour Creek watershed to map the area and have some fun while they were at it, their packs loaded with supplies, photography and surveying equipment, watercolour paints, a rifle and … a pie.

During their expedition, they battled clouds of mosquitoes, dodged bears and cougars, climbed some more, met the miners of Jungle Town, and set off for home, a return journey as arduous as the ascent.

Charles Chapman kept a journal with poems, cartoons, hand-drawn maps, and a collection of photographs of the glorious mountain views.

Chapman’s granddaughter, Lid Hawkins, transformed these into a visual record of this grand adventure and a book, Holiday 1909. (Holiday 1909 is available at Red Horses in West Vancouver and MONOVA.) and will be telling the story of the expedition. 

Local Voices celebrates our community as it was and is, in the words of the people who live here. Learn about who we are, why we chose to make our home in West Vancouver, and what we do here—presented in partnership with the West Vancouver Historical Society.