Comments on: The 1972 Dollarton Pleasure Faire https://evelazarus.com/the-1972-dollarton-pleasure-faire/ Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:12:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Louise https://evelazarus.com/the-1972-dollarton-pleasure-faire/#comment-62862 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:24:50 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=14925#comment-62862 Theres a great short doc about this on NFB

]]> By: Paul Woodhouse https://evelazarus.com/the-1972-dollarton-pleasure-faire/#comment-62690 Sun, 02 Mar 2025 05:54:55 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=14925#comment-62690 As a life long north shore we, I love to see this history. I was just a young 11 year old boy in 1972, but I found the mud flats after I grew up and regularly walk there on the weekends explains to my wife from another country what I understood took place here. She is always amazed at this, because nothing like the hippie era ever happened in Asia😉

]]> By: Cindy Cantelon and Marshall Mar https://evelazarus.com/the-1972-dollarton-pleasure-faire/#comment-61510 Sat, 14 Sep 2024 14:47:47 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=14925#comment-61510 I shared this post with my husband Marshall Mar (Banana Brothers) who was also part of these wonderful events back in the early 70’s.

]]> By: Michael Kluckner https://evelazarus.com/the-1972-dollarton-pleasure-faire/#comment-61358 Thu, 29 Aug 2024 05:19:57 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=14925#comment-61358 Ian Ridgway wrote and self-published a book called A Carpenter’s Tale. I believe he lives on the Sunshine Coast.

]]> By: Lauchlin McKenzie https://evelazarus.com/the-1972-dollarton-pleasure-faire/#comment-61341 Tue, 27 Aug 2024 17:41:07 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=14925#comment-61341 Very good photos and digital treatments in both colour and B/W. Lovely to see that time so beautifully represented. Thx.

]]> By: Daniel https://evelazarus.com/the-1972-dollarton-pleasure-faire/#comment-61336 Mon, 26 Aug 2024 22:27:21 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=14925#comment-61336 The picture of the 4 kids 1 girl and 3 boys. I’m the one on the right.I was 11 years old. I hung out with the 2 boys over a weekend. No idea who they are now. Same with the girl.One morning we found a tophat full of joints. Took a few and tried it out. Not alotmof supervision happened. Is there a chance imcoud get a copy??

]]> By: Mariposa https://evelazarus.com/the-1972-dollarton-pleasure-faire/#comment-61331 Mon, 26 Aug 2024 16:30:44 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=14925#comment-61331 In reply to Bruce Stewart.

When I get home in a few weeks I can send you the image to see if it looks familiar to you if you like …
Also, several years ago I was in VAG with my Mom and we saw a large, three panel image of Helen at the mudflats. It brought my Mom to tears as she looked after her at the end of her young years. Was that a photo of yours as well?

]]> By: Mark Watson https://evelazarus.com/the-1972-dollarton-pleasure-faire/#comment-61323 Mon, 26 Aug 2024 07:16:02 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=14925#comment-61323 Some beautiful images here. I grew up in North Van and lived there till 1973. I was aware of the mudflats community but never ventured down there. I had a friend who lived not too far away but I didn’t know anyone on the mudflats and didn’t want to seem like an intruder wandering around in an alternative community for no good reason other than gawking. Now I wish I had visited. I’d spent time in countercultural communities on Long Beach (Wreck Bay) and Lasqueti Island and there were social gatherings on Lasqueti (I remember a lovely outdoor wedding in particular that had about 60 people i attendance)) that looked a lot like this. It was wonderful back then, basking in the golden afterglow of the 60s. Nudity and marijuana consumption was casual on Wreck Bay and at gatherings of friends and neighbours on Lasqueti — as in these photos– and no one made a fuss about them. Actually, now that I think about it, I was probably on Lasqueti that August (1972) when the Faire took place, so at least I have an excuse for not going to the event, other than just being dumb. I regret missing it. It would have been a chance to experience, right in my own back yard, a magical time and place that would soon be swept away.

]]> By: Kerrianne Ferrier https://evelazarus.com/the-1972-dollarton-pleasure-faire/#comment-61322 Mon, 26 Aug 2024 05:09:29 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=14925#comment-61322 More great photographs from Bruce! Not only recording a moment in time but very well shot, technically and artistically.

I knew Ian Ridgeway from life on the Sunshine Coast. Sadly he passed not too long ago I think.

]]> By: Jennifer Moss https://evelazarus.com/the-1972-dollarton-pleasure-faire/#comment-61318 Mon, 26 Aug 2024 00:16:10 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=14925#comment-61318 What a great profile of this awesome piece of our shared local history. I love the pirate house & the glass house! Artists communities like this remind me that while vision and resources rarely coincide in equal portions, so much can be accomplished with imagination, work, and ingenuity. I also appreciate the photographers and writers who saw fit to document what society was hiding (or demolishing) at the time.

]]> By: Bruce Stewart https://evelazarus.com/the-1972-dollarton-pleasure-faire/#comment-61314 Sun, 25 Aug 2024 19:40:43 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=14925#comment-61314 In reply to Leslie.

Leslie: I did take a few pictures of him, but I didn’t know his name. He was so colourful and seemed to enjoy having his picture taken, as did almost all of the people at that happy event! Again, I have wondered what happened to him . . .

]]> By: Bruce Stewart https://evelazarus.com/the-1972-dollarton-pleasure-faire/#comment-61312 Sun, 25 Aug 2024 18:48:15 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=14925#comment-61312 In reply to Mariposa Bressey.

Hi, Mariposa! Quite possibly I did take a shot of yourself and Clea. Most of what I documented was a kind of blur, as so much was going on all at once! Often, when I get back home, after processing film the night before, I look at proof sheets over coffee the next morning to actually see what it was I was shooting! I did take quite a few of Ian looking at the Sidhu batiks and more of him and Danny Clemens up at Mission the summer before with dome maven, Terry Lyster.

]]> By: Leslie https://evelazarus.com/the-1972-dollarton-pleasure-faire/#comment-61311 Sun, 25 Aug 2024 17:20:58 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=14925#comment-61311 In reply to Blair Berry.

Hi. I was wondering, seeing as you were there, if you look at the last black and white photo, the guy (looks like he is naked) with is right arm in the air, if you knew him. I think that is a picture of my brother. Garry Sim?

]]> By: Mariposa Bressey https://evelazarus.com/the-1972-dollarton-pleasure-faire/#comment-61307 Sun, 25 Aug 2024 15:15:41 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=14925#comment-61307 Thank you for documenting and sharing. I have a nice collection of ephemera and photos from habitat and 1971‘s pleasure faire. I also have a black-and-white of myself and Clea Ridgeway at the mud flats that I’m wondering if you took …

]]> By: Blair Berry https://evelazarus.com/the-1972-dollarton-pleasure-faire/#comment-61306 Sun, 25 Aug 2024 15:04:47 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=14925#comment-61306 Forsure i was there!
You may want to check with plumb Bob james about more photos. He documented that era rather well.

]]> By: Holly Fynn https://evelazarus.com/the-1972-dollarton-pleasure-faire/#comment-61292 Sat, 24 Aug 2024 18:53:45 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=14925#comment-61292 Great photos. Wonderful time capsule.

]]> By: Teresa James https://evelazarus.com/the-1972-dollarton-pleasure-faire/#comment-61288 Sat, 24 Aug 2024 17:01:13 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=14925#comment-61288 The pictures are truly amazing! I had never seen them before, although I had seen others taken at the event. Thank you for posting them here.

]]> By: Charlotte Matthews https://evelazarus.com/the-1972-dollarton-pleasure-faire/#comment-61286 Sat, 24 Aug 2024 16:14:41 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=14925#comment-61286 Amazing photos

]]> By: Kelvin https://evelazarus.com/the-1972-dollarton-pleasure-faire/#comment-61284 Sat, 24 Aug 2024 14:41:31 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=14925#comment-61284 Nice, remember it well.

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