THIS PHOTO from the late 1930s shaws Os-
car Faskvam carrying a load of lumber to the

house he built at 3532 Eby. it

1938 and remains occupied by Farkvam fam-

was finished in

ily members. The house is now painted a
warm, yellow colour, Oscar Farkvam worked
for George Little as a millwright and saw filer.
Married to Rose, the couple had six children.

Early buildings traced

HERE’S WHY you may have
noticed a vehicle moving slowly
down cily streets recently.

It would have been the one
carrying two women who, after

the vehicle stopped, would have .

jumped out to take a picture of a
house.

Mect Yvonne Moen and Helen
Haslmeyer who spent the carly
part of the summer tracking
down pictures of and stories be-
hind the city’s remaining first
homes and places of business.

They had first thought they'd
find perhaps 20, but were sur-
prised the more they researched.

“We hit 30, then over 30 and
went up from there,” said Moen
of the 60 homes the pair
eventually encountered. And
they know there still others they
haven't yet heard about.

Word spread of their work and
that, coupled with interviews, of
long term residents, added to
their pictorial inventory.

‘We even have a mystery
home,

too. It’s something on

which we have no information,’
added Moen.

As their motto, the pair took a
quote from city founder George
Little — ‘You can’t get ahead
in life until you have a nest.’*

The idea of collecting photos
and information on first homes
came from a
Hasimeyer had with some
tourists at Heritage Park where
she works. They wanted in-
formation on a particular house.

She and Moen then quickly
realized the intriguing pos-
sibilities of putting gathering to-
gether pictures and stories of
older homes and got to work.

Their work has been collected

on posters which are on display -

this week at Video Stop.

Each picture is accompanied
by the story behind the house.

What Moen and Haslmeyer
find interesting is that some of
the older-homes no longer bear a
resemblance” to ‘their’ original’ *
shape and size because of ex-
tensive renovations done over

conversation”

_the years.

They also painslakingly pieced
together the new locations for
homes which ofice occupied the
block of Lakelse Ave, now con-
"taining the Coast Inn of the West
east to the Bank of Nova Scotia.

In setting up guidelines for
their quest, the pair established
1940 as the cut off date.

“After that weze the war years

‘and that’s a totally different

story because of the boom in war

time buildings,”’ said Moen.
“Putting together that could be

a job for somebody else.”’
Haslmeyer has carefully

scanned in their photos onto -
their compuler and also has an ~

electronic version of the lext.

She and Moen eventually plan
to publish a version of their re-
search.

With thal in mind, they wel-
come any more
_ people might, have on pre- -1940
buildings i in own.

Cont'd Pace ca

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