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The Deep Cove Heritage Society is there for the public, be it general interest
or research purposes. It was established in 1985 by a dedicated group of volunteers
many of whom are still with us today. Our archives house a collection of over
800 photographs, some dating back to the turn of the century, as well as manuscript
materials, maps, documents, and oral and written interviews with the area's pioneers.
The Deep Cove Heritage Society's gift shop and achives is located in the Deep
Cove Cultural Centre at 4360 Gallant Avenue in Deep Cove.
Books
The "Taste of Deep Cove" book is all sold out. "Echoes Across the
Inlet" is in its third printing.
Office hours:
Thursdays and Sundays from 1-4:30 pm
and Fridays 9:30 am-2:30 pm
also open by appointment call 604-929-5744.
Contact The Deep Cove Heritage Society
Post:
4360 Gallant Avenue,
North Vancouver, BC
V7G 1L2
Telephone: 604.929.5744 • 604.929.9456
Email: info@deepcoveheritage.com

The first permanent residents in Deep Cove were John and Rhoda Moore and their
five children. In 1919 they bought two lots for $15.00 each, cleared the
land themselves and survied the first year on wild berries, fish caught in Deep
Cove and clams from Roche Point. They opened the first store in the area for business
in 1927 at the corner of Burns Avenue and Second Street, what is now Panorama
Drive and Gallant Avenue.

Poet and novelist Malcolm Lowry and his wife Margerie lived on and off
in a squatters shack from 1940 to 1954 here in what is now Cates Park. Lowry won
the Governor General's Award for his novel "Under the Volcano".
Squatters shacks were first evident in the 1930s along the beaches of Roche
Point, housing the Dollar Mill workers and people left destitute by The Depression.
Support The Deep Cove Heritage Society
Buy a Brick

View a large PDF of the bricks to make out the names.
Deep Cove Heritage Society has an ongoing fund-raiser selling bricks for the garden
outside their office. Family names on are put on the bricks. This picture shows
the first installation of bricks. If you are interested in getting your family
name on a brick please contact the society by the phone or email listed below.
Learn more about the heritage of Deep Cove, BC,
Canada.
Contact The Deep Cove Heritage Society.
604.929.5744
Email: info@deepcoveheritage.com
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