Comments on: A Short History of Maplewood Flats

By: beth

beth — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:53:12 +0000

I am looking for more information on the history between 1900s and 1960…more specifically about the sand and gravel company and the “In the 1960s, the floors and buildings from demolished West End heritage houses were barged over, mixed with logs and garbage from the inlet and used as fill on the mudflats”. If you can give me any advice for where I can find more, I would really appreciate your help.

By: e.a.f.

e.a.f. — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 04:25:47 +0000

Thank you the article. Remember Malcolm Lowry stories well.
Its sad these places were lost to “progress”. I still would love to live at Fin Slough. Have since I was a kid living in Richmond.

By: Eve Lazarus

Eve Lazarus — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:56:56 +0000

In reply to Laura Anderson. Thanks so much Laura!

By: Laura Anderson

Laura Anderson — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:37:32 +0000

Thank you for your good work, documenting North Shore history, Eve.

I do recall many great gatherings at the mudflats (1970s)! You may know that Malcolm Lowry had been a resident (was told that he also lived in the west end, in a building on Gilford / Comox near the Sylvia Hotel. I lived in that building 12 (1980s/90s) years, moved 3 times within it, and one of the apartments had been home to Mr Lowry.

By: Mili

Mili — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 17:56:02 +0000

Reminds me of “Poole’s Land” on The Island.

Privately owned land though…

It’s gone now. As is Michael Poole. Lost to the pandemonium and cancer.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/michael-poole-the-founder-of-pooles-land-a-psychedelic-commune-in-the-rainforest-dies/

By: Murray Lundberg

Murray Lundberg — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 17:01:15 +0000

Thank you for describing another little-known (or long-forgotten) bit of our history, acknowledging and perhaps even celebrating the fact that nudity was common in counter-culture communities of that period.