2030 Haro Street; detail from First Beach, 1954; BO-54-211; http://vintageairphotos.com/bo-54-211/.
2030 Haro Street was on the south side of Haro Street, east of Park Road (later called Lagoon Drive).
Legal Description: District Lot: 186; Block 67; east half of lot 16.
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 June 23, 2019].
| District: | Vancouver |
| Permit: | |
| Owner: | Maitland, R. R. |
| Architect: | Maitland, R. R. |
| Builder: | Braid & Jones |
| Legal Address: | DL: 185 Block: 67 Sub: Resub: Lot: 16 |
| Date (Y-M-D): | 1910-05-02 |
| Street Number: | 2030 |
| Street Name: | Haro Street |
| Value: | $4,600.00 |
| Remarks: | Frame building |
| Reference ID: | VN-3100-3101-1590 |
Vancouver Province, May 3, 1910, page 8, column 3.
By November 1910, Mrs. Maitland was holding her “at home” days at the new house on Haro Street.
Vancouver Province, November 12, 1910, page 5, column 4.
The family of Robert Reid Maitland lived in the house from 1910 to 1921.
Shortly afterward, the house became a rooming house.
Vancouver Province, May 20, 1924, page 19, column 8.
Vancouver Province, July 27, 1928, page 19, column 4.
Vancouver Province, May 1, 1940, page 24, column 2.
Vancouver Sun, March 17, 1951, page 38, column 1.
Vancouver Sun, November 17, 1955, page 47, column 5.
Vancouver Sun, February 14, 1964, page 37, column 2.
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.
