Dear Editor:
Re: Amalgamate North Vancouver and Change Name While We’re At It, Aug. 21 Mailbox.
In response to the letter in a recent issue of the North Shore News in which the writer stated that “everybody wants to change the name of North Vancouver,” I would like to know where he obtained this information. Most of us were not consulted on this matter and, in any case, have far more important things on our minds.
What name has he chosen for us? Has he given any thought to the expense involved to the average person in changing addresses, driver’s licences, credit cards, passports, property titles and many other things, which, of course, will be minor in comparison to what the governments of the two municipalities and hundreds of corporate and legislative entities will incur?
What about maps? What about the legal cost involved in all this — probably in the multi-millions of dollars!
However, apart from all this, I do sympathize with his problem and have a very simple solution.
Having travelled Canada from coast to coast a few times, I couldn’t help but notice that we have quite a lot of spare real estate. In fact there was a beautiful tract of land in the northern part of the Yukon where he could probably choose whatever name he liked. There would also be room for all the other people who make up his “everybody” group.
Joyce Shea
North Vancouver
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