Caufeild

     The beginnings of one of West Vancouver’s most distinctive communities began in 1898 with the arrival of an Englishman named Francis Caulfeild. Caulfeild had been so impressed with what he saw when he arrived, that he went out and bought a large lot of land and began to develop it. Influenced by his roots, Caulfeild designed the development of his newly acquired land to echo the charm and culture of his native England. One example is how he opted not to use the perpendicular grid system for the roads, so typical of North America, but instead vouched to have roads that followed the natural contours of the land. Caulfeild followed this idea by using the rough trails that had been created by the local animals as blueprints for the layout of the roads. He justified his position by declaring that "the cow is always right".