Comments on: Kits Point and the Summer of ‘23

By: Mary Salvador

Mary Salvador — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 21:36:31 +0000

I am wondering Doug if you lived in the penthouse on Laburnum Street – adjoining Cornwall Avenue?
My parents lived in that penthouse for some years from 1966-70. There was no elevator and my mother was quite handicapped but she managed the 3 flights of stairs. I married in 1970 and prepared for my wedding in their apartment. I have so wanted to look at it again but the manager of the building it turns out is the owner and he would not let me enter even though I have gone at different times. I suppose I can understand it but I am sad. I have such good memories – Sunday nights always dinner was there. Followed by The Forsythe Saga when my fiance/husband would have a snooze!

By: Lynda Pitt-Brooke

Lynda Pitt-Brooke — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 19:55:44 +0000

In reply to Jane Kerner. Jane, so appreciated your comments here. Can you send me a copy of the photo you mention? And what was the spiritual content of your conversations with Anne?

By: Jane Kerner

Jane Kerner — Sun, 24 Jun 2018 17:50:23 +0000

In reply to Richard Skelly.

Anne Terriss was one of my mum’s closest friends so we grew up spending many hours on Ogden Rd where mum and Anne would visit while my dad and Ken talked about politics and writing. I still have an interesting blk/wht photo of my brother and myself in their old apartment next to 1970. Since my mum lives with me on the ranch north of cache Creek now, one of her special pleasures was visiting Anne in YVR , moistly lately at Crofton Manor where they would spend their days visiting with each other and the other residents, perhaps snoozing a bit in the beautiful garden. Now that Anne has passed, we don’t go back to Kits or Kerrisdale as the memories are still too painful. Anne was so interesting and had so much to share both of a spiritual nature as well as practical – always a smile. I will always treasure the days spent with her both at her home and walking around Granville Island. My mum is now 97 and still talks about Anne with a smile! Thanks for sharing these old photos and the update.

By: Doug Parks

Doug Parks — Sun, 24 Jun 2018 00:07:47 +0000

I lived on Laburnum with my mom and dad and brother. It was a very large two bedroom apt on the third floor of a three story building. Cornwall on our right and the Billy Bishop Legion on our left. I think it was the last place I lived before I moved out on my own. At the time , I was not a big fan of Kits Point as we had always lived in the West End and Kits seemed very removed from downtown and Stanley Park. Today its a day trip destination. Siegels at Cornwall and Cyprus for lunch and a rugalatch .Probably miss spelled but if you havent tried one of those pastries you dont know what your missing. My piano roll buying pal in Edmonton likes me to buy and send (via UPS) 3 dozen of those pastries every time we go to Kits Point.

By: Richard Skelly

Richard Skelly — Sat, 23 Jun 2018 21:46:06 +0000

Nice touch to epilogue this Kits Point retrospective with the obituaries of the couple who lived in harmony with the area and helped ensure we wouldn’t forget that place in time.

I distinctly remember walking past the Terriss’s wood-and-glass redesigned house in my late teen ramblings through Kitsilano.

RIP Kenneth and Anne Terriss.