Hadley-Ives Family Photographs from 2011 Page 10

Looking down False Creek toward Science World and Strathcona.

A night view down False Creek toward the Vancouver Science Center

Looking across False Creek from our apartment in Vancouver.

Sea Gooseberry (Pleurobrachia bachei) or some similar Ctenophor. it doesn't sting, and it looks pretty, but it has a voracious appetite.

Moon Jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) is a creature all children who grow up along the coast learn early in life to recognize, because it commonly washes up on the beach, and if you step on it with your bare feet or pick it up with your hands, you will get a stinging itch on your skin, so you will avoid touching it in the future.

Jellyfish in the Vancouver Aquarium.

A Vermilion Rockfish or Red Snapper (Sebastes miniatus) swims above a pool with giant green anemone (Anthopleura xanthogrammica).

The Longfin Sculpin (Jordania zonope) is one of the most beautiful fish of the Pacific Northwest, and rivals tropical reef fish in terms of its color.

A Northern Red Anemone (Tealia crassicornis)

Club-tipped Anemone (Corynactis californica)

Dolphins showing off their tricks in the Vancouver Aquarium show. These are Pacific White-sided Dolphins (Lagenorbynchus obliquidens).

A beluga whale in the Vancouver Aquarium; like all the animals in the aquarium, this is an ambassador animal that remains in captivity so that the good-will and understanding it promotes in humans will lead them to be more protective and respectful of its relatives in the wild.

Purple starfish (a purple variety of the Ocher Sea Star Pisaster ochraceus) on the coast in Stanley Park. As we walked along the beach and looked at rocks we saw many sea stars.

Hawk at the Vancouver Aquarium

Arthur in front of the giant steel crab sculpture in a fountain in front of the Museum of Vancouver. The sculpture is by George A. Norris.

Raccoons that seemed fairly tame and unafraid of humans in Stanley Park.

Raccoons in Stanley Park; a mother with her kittens.

This is the life-sized Girl in a Wetsuit statue, Vancouver’s unique statue that does not try to copy Copenhagen’s Little Mermaid, which rightfully belongs as a symbol of Denmark. The sculpture was created in 1972 by Elek Imredy. The model for the statue was Debra Harrington. Behind the statue in the distance there is a massive pile of sulfur.

Arthur stands on the shore with the Lions Gate Bridge behind him.

Here is Jeri along the Stanley Park Seawall. We walked along from the Brockton Point Lighthouse to the Lions Gate Bridge hoping to locate a very large rock that appears in a photograph from 1915 when my great-grandparents took my grandfather (who was just three-years-old) to Stanley Park. We couldn't locate the large rock, so it may be in another part of the park or it may have been moved.

Is is our family all together in Stanley Park

The Japanese Canadian War Memorial honors 222 Japanese Canadians who served the British Empire in the Great War, and the 54 of those who sacrificed their lives in defense of freedom between 1914-1918.

Totem Poles in Stanley Park.

One of the totem poles in Stanley Park.

Arthur in Stanley Park.

A blue heron looks out from Elsje Point toward English Bay.

Jeri and Sebastian sit with Dad at Kitsilano Beach before we go to the Vancouver Maritime Museum and Museum of Vancouver, which are in Vanier Park nearby.

Arthur admires the Kitsilano Pool, one of the world’s largest outdoor swimming pools

Jeri, Arthur, and Virginia at the Kitsilano Pool

Arthur on a rock at low tide in False Creek

Sebastian ascends the stairs to an upper deck on the St. Roch, the first known surface vessel to make it through the Northwest Passage going from west to east (the journey from the Pacific to the Atlantic over northern Canada). It departed in 1940 and made it to Nova Scotia in 1942. It later returned over the Northwest Passage in a single season (From Dartmouth to Vancouver in 86 days in 1944). This is at the Vancouver Maritime Museum.

Arthur tries on some of the snow goggles traditionally worn by people of the polar regions. I remember a social studies textbook I had in fifth grade that had a photograph of such a person wearing eye shades like these.

View of Vancouver as we descend Granville Street toward the Granville Bridge.

The Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden is one of the highlights of a visit to Vancouver, along with Queen Elizabeth Park, Stanley Park, the aquarium in Stanley Park, the University of British Columbia's botanical gardens and anthropology museum, and the Van Dusen Gardens.

The family sits in the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Chinese Garden in Vancouver.

This Chinese gateway stood in Minter Garden.

The grocery stores in Yaletown had a good selection of tortellini and ravioli and other pastas to take home for meals.

An ideal dinner in the Vancouver apartment: chickpea salad, snow peas, cherries, toast with tomatoes and mozzarella cheese, cheese tortellini and spinach tortellini, and some baked vegetables covered with cheese and tomato sauce.

A cheese sandwich I enjoyed for a lunch near Stanley Park one morning in Vancouver.

A cheese omelet and toast with fried potatoes made a splendid breakfast one morning in Vancouver.

This salad with almond slivers and cranberries was delicious.

My great-grandfather lived in Calgary, and came to visit Vancouver before moving the family (and my grandfather). He wrote back to my great-grandmother Jessie, and in the letter he mentioned the recently-completed Dominion Building as the tallest steel-framed skyscraper in the British Empire (it stands 53 meters / 175 feet tall). It is a lovely structure.

We celebrated my mom’s 66th birthday with a lovely dinner in the apartment in Vancouver.

Our parents’ apartment was richly endowed with deck space, so it was a lovely place to sit and read or eat or admire the view over False Creek and the marina.

Here is Jeri (春枝) at our parents’ apartment near False Creek in Yaletown, Vancouver, BC., with boats in a marina behind her.

An example of Haban faïence (tin glazed) pottery popular among (and made by) persons who were members of the Anabaptist sects of central Europe in the 17th and early 18th centuries. Some of the descendants of these central European Anabaptists ended up in Canada and the USA where they form the Hutterite communities.

Mr. Cranmer and his clansmen owned this eagle sculpture, and sold it to the University of British Columbia in 1947. Ellen Need and Mungo Martin replaced the wings after they were stolen shortly after the sculpture arrived at the Anthropology Museum. It is an early 20th century Kwakwaka’wakw eagle sculpture from the ‘Namgis band.

It is easy to be distracted by sparkles and shiny things like these pinwheels in the sunshine in Vancouver.

When a garden goes out of business, as Minter Gardens did in 2013, it seems to me that the public would be well-served by having such a spectacular treasure purchased with public money, and turned into a public park. The people of Chiliwack and the far eastern suburbs of Vancouver showed their ignorant stupidity by allowing Minter Gardens to be bulldozed and converted into private housing.

As much as we love to take photographs, I think my mom is even more enthusiastic about photography. It is always a pleasure to go into a garden and try to get good photographs of flowers (as in the roses above) or scenery.

Minter Gardens made good use of shrubs and bushes as well as trees, and some of the delightful views came from the combination of the flowers (which could be found in almost any garden) with the Pacific Northwest style of evergreens and trees serving as a backdrop.

Minter Gardens had some delightful paths lined with shrubs, flower beds, and trees. This is one such pathway.

These sculptured herons are made from strips of metal. Our minds and visual understanding are so sophisticated that we can immediately recognize these metal scraps assembled in this form as representing living creatures. Would other animals note the representation, or be fooled into thinking these were actual birds, or would they not see the resemblance and simply ignore them?

Minter Gardens had a Canadian maple leaf made out of hedges, which you can see in this photograph.

Minter Gardens was in operation from 1980 to 2013, but it is gone now. This was a view looking up from Minter Gardens toward Cheam Peak (obscured by clouds in the photo) at the ridge rising up 1600 meters behind Bridal Falls to the East of the Fraser River Valley.

The stream flowing below Bridal Falls makes its way through ferns and moss on its short journey to the Fraser River.

Along the trail up to Bridal Falls (near Popkum, east of Chilliwack) i stopped to admire the moss, sticks, and debris in the creek flowing down from the waterfall.

The little boy on the steps is my grandfather. The house at 888 Burrard where they lived was evidently fairly new in 1914 or 1915 when this photograph was taken. In 1938 the house was torn down and replaced with a car dealership (McLachlan Motors, which specialized in selling Kaiser Fraser cars, a fairly obscure brand). Currently there is a nice Thai restaurant at 888 Burrard in the remodeled car dealership building, and it is a fine place to go for Thai noodles.

My mom kept some old photographs of family and Vancouver and Stanley Park in her apartment in Vancouver. The photographs were taken by my great-grandparents (Vic and Jessie Ives), who lived together at 888 Burrard Street for a few years around 1913-1916. The young blond child in this photograph is my grandfather, and that's my great-grandfather just behind him. Both were known as "Vic Ives". My great-grandfather succumbed to tuberculosis in 1916 when my grandfather was just 4-and-a-half years old, I don't think there was any confusion between them.

This is a photograph in the back yard at 888 Burrard Street in Vancouver around 1914 or 1915. Both my maternal grandparents spent time in Vancouver as young children (and ended up in Seattle for most of their childhood and youth). In this photograph you can see my grandfather (Vic Ives, 1911-2000) with my great-grandmother Jessie.