You’re thinking of Ceperley House in Burnaby. There’s a bit here and more in a podcast – link at the bottom of the story https://evelazarus.com/ceperley-houseburnaby-art-gallery/

That is beautiful, I hope you both were able to be reaquainted.
I am sure after such a long time you both had half a life time of stories to share with each other. Childhood best friends are always the best and not many can compare.

I was a student that slept in the attic dormitory. There were many of us, and the youngest boarders slept in the room at the far end of the attic.

Hello Josie! My name is Lisa “Josephine” Clark….nee: Edwards. You and I were best friends, from 1961-1964. We lived on Yale St and I remember your family’s home on North McDonald. I have photos of us as kids. I believe my older sister Lenore was friends with your sister Loni.

I lived in West Vancouver and was sent to Seton Academy in grade 2 (1958/1959) to board. It was a terrifying experience for me then. The nuns, dressed in black freaked me out. We played bingo every Friday night and I just longed to go home. I was not wanted. There was someone named Caroline who was an amazing and empathic and loving person who helped me through this traumatic experience. To this day i remember her – she saved my life.

They were stolen 🙁
I just noticed in a recent video that the fireplace insert from the dining room was suddenly also missing 🙁
I worked on that fireplace & noticed immediately 🙁

What is the cost for tickets?

My maiden name is Fee , I grew up in Burnaby

There will be a live intimate concert with spooky & weird handmade vendors and vintage clothing and I’m hoping to get a couple of foodtrucks out front as well

We won’t have access to the attic or basement but I have pictures of the attic which I suspect is where classes were held based on the institutional flooring and being the only space large enough to gather students besides the chapel. Plus all your comments and tidbits. Nobody has come forward as sleeping in the locked attic yet after all and the heavy door would prevent mischief

You must mean Janet Poulin
After my grandmother Phyllis Walker passed 25 day’s after, her Daughter, my mother also passed.
Janet had 2 children named Remi & Chantal.
Janet was I’ll & my grandpa cared for her then later married her…
We all wen’t to Arizona together when the children we’re 9-13
I miss that house:)

Cecil was my Grandfather & much of my childhood was spent growing up there. My Brother Douglas, my two Cousins & myself restored the outside twice. When I was little, I used to go there for weeks to polish the silver lamps & rub lemon oil into the walls.
Cecil recieved an award for outstanding contribution to the country.
With Polio he helped build Bc’s first McMillan Blodel while being towed in a wagon.
Then helped Starrt
Big Brothers, Junior achievement, & had successfully started 27 businesses..
17 of which we’re still in operation while living at Overlynn.
Walker Brothers sold their Vancouver paint company to Glidden of America.
I shook Rick Hanson’s hand in the dining room where he’d waited to meet me at my mother Marylyn’s funeral.
I spent many day’s practicing guitar & writing in that house.
Doe’s anyone remember a Red 1968 Ford Fairlane or Silver Oldsmobile hot rots that used to frequently be parked behind my Granpa’s Lincoln or Mercedes ?
Myself, my mother, brother, father, grandfather, cousins or aunt never had a ghostly experience there.
As a child, you could definitely feel the history but it not scary.
When my grandpa started to bring it back to life, there was much to do.
He was a bit upset with the rcmp after they stayed there… some original stained glass doors were missing…
Some people had been removing the original Ebony & Ivory inlay as well as the original solid silver & crystal lamps down the halls & around the house.
Cecil had the pieces custom made & replaced. The replacement wasn’t Ivory but the crystal lamps were hand made to match.

Also the house was used in the original movie IT as the hotel that the main characters stayed at when they returned as adults.

Hello Janis!
I am reading your comment and beaming ear to ear. We have experienced all the same!

The architect was Samuel McLure

I attended Seton Academy in what must have been 1950 or 1951 though I read that the school was built in 1954. The back yard was where we celebrated our first communion walking around the garden which had a waterfall feature. I would like to find photos of the back garden where Set on Villa now stands.