Does anyone know anything about a girls' industrial school/unwed mothers' home which was located around Cassiar and Hastings Streets in Vancouver? In the 1940s it is said to have had a walkway with park benches and a copper colored door with bars on the door and windows. It was apparently renovated a number of years ago into seniors' housing. Thanks kindly. Cheers, -- Laury Walkey (Miss) BC, Canada

There was one there, I remember driving by it many times over the years when in the "Big City". Don't remember exactly where but certainly in that neighbourhood. Roberta ric48204@telus.net

When I was in grade 3, (way back in 1949) my family lived in a house at the corner of Parker and Cassiar Streets. The Girls Industrial School was across Cassiar from us, at the corner of Cassiar and whatever street just north of Parker extends to the east towards Boundary Road. Parker Street did not extend east of Cassiar. The house I lived in then was taken down when they widened the road for the Cassiar extension of the freeway. Gordon A. Watts gordon_watts@telus.net Co-chair, Canada Census Committee Port Coquitlam, British Columbia Read my column, 'Gordon Watts Reports' at http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/authors/authgw.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laury Walkey" <polgara@telus.net> To: <can-british-columbia@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 9:08 AM Subject: [CAN-BC] Girls' industrial school, Cassiar and Hastings Streets,Vancouver, BC, c1942 Does anyone know anything about a girls' industrial school/unwed mothers' home which was located around Cassiar and Hastings Streets in Vancouver? In the 1940s it is said to have had a walkway with park benches and a copper colored door with bars on the door and windows. It was apparently renovated a number of years ago into seniors' housing. Thanks kindly. Cheers, -- Laury Walkey (Miss) BC, Canada