2014 Haro Street

 

2014 Haro Street; detail from First Beach, 1954; BO-54-211; http://vintageairphotos.com/bo-54-211/.

 

2014 Haro Street was on the south side of Haro Street, just west of Chilco Street.

Legal Description: District Lot 185, Block 67, lot C (later lot D).

 

Haro Street and Park Road – Macaulay and Nicholls advertisement – Vancouver Province – October 24 1908 – page 10.

 

2000 Block Haro Street – Detail from Goad’s Atlas of the city of Vancouver – 1912 – Vol 1 – Plate 7 – Coal Harbour to Barclay Street and Cardero Street to Stanley Park.

 

2000 block Haro Street (south side); detail from Goad’s Atlas of Vancouver, Volume 1, Plate 62; Chilco Street to Burrard Inlet to Stanley Park boundary to Pendrell Street; https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/plate-54-denman-street-to-haro-street-to-chilco-street-to-comox-street.

 

There is one reference to this property in Heritage Vancouver Society’s database of historic building permits:http://permits.heritagevancouver.org/index.php?cID=1 [searched January 16, 2019].

 

District:	Vancouver
Permit:
Owner:	Bigerton, J.
Architect:	Grant & Henderson
Builder:	Campbell, Burke & McClay
Legal Address:	DL: 185 Block: 67 Sub: Resub: Lot: 14-15 [A-B-C-D-E of]
Date (Y-M-D):	1909-04-05
Street Number:	2014-2022 (also 875-885-891)
Street Name:	Haro Street (also Chilco Street)
Value:	$15,000.00
Remarks:	5 dwelling houses [2014-2022 Haro Street, 875-885-891 Chilco Street]
Reference ID:	VN-3001-3001-93

 

Vancouver directory listings from 1911 to 1928:

1911 to 1912	Mackedie, Randolph Bruce (son of Charlotte Jane Mackedie)
1913	Bedlington, Reginald Gordon
1914 to 1928	Mackedie, Randolph Bruce (son of Charlotte Jane Mackedie)

 

From its early days, the house was often available to rent for several months at a time.

 

Vancouver Province, June 12, 1911, page 22, column 4.

 

Vancouver Province, November 25, 1912, page 22, column 3.

 

By the late 1920s, the house was a rooming house.

 

Vancouver Province, November 1, 1929, page 25, column 6.

 

Vancouver Province, March 21, 1936, page 20, column 4.

 

It continued as a rooming house until the 1960s, sometimes with board included.

 

Vancouver Province, March 28, 1942, page 20, column 7.

 

Vancouver Province, December 1, 1960, page 19, column 7.

 

The house was demolished to make way for the Laguna Vista apartment building, which appeared at 2020 Haro Street in 1966.

 

Vancouver Sun, March 25, 1966, page 44, columns 7-8.

 

Laguna Vista Apartments, postcard; https://www.hippostcard.com/listing/street-view-of-laguna-vista-luxurious-apartment-building-vancouver-5-briti/17237086.