Dave Broadfoot OC (December 5, 1925 – November 1, 2016) was a Canadian comedian and satirist. He is best known for his performances as a member of the Royal Canadian Air Farce .
30-569: Broadfoot was born in North Vancouver , British Columbia, to a religious family. He left high school in 1943 and joined the merchant navy , serving until 1947. In the late 1940s, Broadfoot returned home and participated in community theatre in Vancouver, eventually gravitating towards comedy. He moved to Toronto in 1952 and for ten years was a writer and performer in the stage revues Spring Thaw and The Big Review . In 1962, Spring Thaw had
60-505: A coxless pair to win Silver Goblets at Henley Royal Regatta . In 1858 the pair lost in the final of Silver Goblets to Herbert Playford and A. A. Casamajor . Lonsdale studied law at Lincoln's Inn , where he was called to the Bar in 1862. He became High Sheriff of Louth in 1877. He was granted a Royal Licence to change his name to Arthur Pemberton Heywood-Lonsdale in order to inherit
90-399: A change of 9.9% from its 2016 population of 52,898. With a land area of 11.83 km (4.57 sq mi), it had a population density of 4,912.9/km (12,724.4/sq mi) in 2021. As of the 2011 census, the median age was 41.2 years old, which is a bit higher than the national median age at 40.6 years old. There are 24,206 private dwellings with an occupancy rate of 94.1%. According to
120-631: A fortune of a million and a quarter pounds under the will of his maternal uncle John Pemberton Heywood who died in 1877. In 1880 he served as treasurer of the Salop Infirmary in Shrewsbury . With another relation James Pemberton Fell, Heywood-Lonsdale made substantial investments in the City of North Vancouver . In 1882 he financed the Moodyville investments founded by Sewell Moody . Several locations in
150-678: A run at the Hammersmith Theatre in London , England under the name Clap Hands , with a cast that included Broadfoot, Corinne Conley , Jack Creley and Eric Christmas . In the 1950s and 1960s, Broadfoot appeared on several CBC television shows, including The Big Revue , the Wayne and Shuster Show , and Comedy Café , on the Ed Sullivan Show in the U.S. in 1955, and on radio with Funny You Should Say That . He also had occasional film roles in
180-629: Is a city municipality on the North Shore of the Burrard Inlet , in British Columbia , Canada. It consists of the smallest and most urbanized of the communities situated north of the city of Vancouver , and is part of the Metro Vancouver regional district , though it has significant industry of its own – including shipping , chemical production , and film production , centred on
210-567: Is relatively densely populated with a number of residential high-rise buildings in the Central Lonsdale and Lower Lonsdale areas. The North Shore mountains have many drainages: Capilano River, MacKay, Mosquito, and Lynn Creeks, and Seymour River. North Vancouver has an oceanic climate ( Köppen Cfb ) with cool, rainy winters and dry, warm summers. The area around lower Lonsdale Avenue features several open community spaces, including Waterfront Park, Lonsdale Quay, Ship Builders Square and
240-450: Is still one of the most important east-west thoroughfare carrying traffic across the North Shore. Development was slow at the outset. The population of the district in the 1901 census was only 365 people. Keith joined Edwin Mahon and together they controlled North Vancouver Land & Improvement Company. Soon the pace of development around the foot of Lonsdale began to pick up. The first school
270-667: The Canadian Comedy Awards gave the Dave Broadfoot Award for Special Achievement. He also did voices for two animated Christmas specials, George and the Christmas Star and Bluetoes the Christmas Elf , and made a guest appearance as a hospital patient in the hit TV series, Puppets Who Kill . Broadfoot died on November 1, 2016, at the age of 90. North Vancouver (city) The City of North Vancouver
300-649: The Pacific Great Eastern Railway provided an industrial base, although, the late arrival of the Second Narrows railway bridge in 1925 controlled development. The Depression again bankrupted the city, while the Second World War turned North Vancouver into the Clydeside of Canada with a large shipbuilding program. Housing the shipyard workers provided a new building boom, which continued on through
330-470: The 2011 National Household Survey, the median value of a dwelling in North Vancouver is $ 599,985 which is significantly higher than the national average at $ 280,552. The median household income (after-taxes) in North Vancouver is $ 52,794, a bit lower than the national average at $ 54,089. North Vancouver has one of the highest Middle Eastern population ratios for any Canadian city at 11.3% as of 2021, with
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#1732870170267360-732: The Burrard Dry Dock Pier. Other sites of interest in the city include: The City of North Vancouver is connected to Vancouver by two highway bridges (the Lions Gate Bridge and the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing ) and by a passenger ferry, the SeaBus . That system and the bus system in North Vancouver is operated by Coast Mountain Bus Company , an operating company of TransLink . The hub of
390-511: The Capilano River and east to Lynn Valley. The owners of businesses who operated on Lonsdale, as part of an initiative led by Keith and Mahon, brought a petition to the district council in 1905, calling for a new, compact city to be carved out of the unwieldy district. During the ensuing two years there was much and sometimes heated debate. Some thought the new city should have a new name such as Northport, Hillmont or Parkhill. Burrard became
420-566: The North Shore's largest urban centre, Lonsdale . The city is served by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police , British Columbia Ambulance Service , and the North Vancouver City Fire Department. In the 1880s, Arthur Heywood-Lonsdale and a relation James Pemberton Fell, made substantial investments through their company, Lonsdale Estates, and in 1882 he financed the Moodyville investments. Several locations in
450-497: The North Vancouver area are named after Lonsdale and his family. Not long after the District of North Vancouver was formed, an early land developer and second reeve of the new council, James Cooper Keith, personally underwrote a loan to commence construction of a road which undulated from West Vancouver to Deep Cove amid the slashed sidehills, swamps, and burnt stumps. The road, sometimes under different names and not always contiguous,
480-621: The North Vancouver area are named after Lonsdale and the family. In 1885 Heywood-Lonsdale purchased the Shavington estate in Shropshire and greatly improved the house and grounds. He became High Sheriff of Shropshire in 1888 After the formation of Shropshire County Council in 1889 he served on it as an alderman and as its vice chairman. Lonsdale married, in Ackworth Church on 28 January 1863, Frances Elizabeth Neilson, of Hundhill. His uncle,
510-487: The area, including Bodwell High School and Lions Gate Christian Academy. Post-secondary education is available at Capilano University in the district, as well as at Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia in neighbouring communities. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, North Vancouver had a population of 58,120 living in 27,293 of its 29,021 total private dwellings,
540-479: The boundary of the city which came into existence in 1907 just happened to match that of the lands owned by the North Vancouver Land & Improvement Company and Lonsdale Estate was no accident. Since the motivation for creating the city was to reserve local tax revenue for the work of putting in services for the property owned by the major developers, there was little reason to take on any of the burden beyond
570-652: The bus system is Lonsdale Quay , the location of the SeaBus terminal. Currently, there is no rail transit service on the North Shore . The main street in the city is Lonsdale Avenue, which begins at Lonsdale Quay and goes north to 29th Street, where it continues in the District of North Vancouver, ending at Rockland Road. Highway 1 , the Trans-Canada Highway (often referred to as the "Upper Levels Highway") passes through
600-486: The early 1970s, including in the films Hold on to Daddy's Ears (Tiens-toi bien après les oreilles à papa) , The Rebels (Quelques arpents de neige) , Enuff Is Enuff (J'ai mon voyage!) and The Sloane Affair . From 1973 to 1993 he was a member of the radio version of the Royal Canadian Air Farce . He retired from regular performing when the troupe moved to television, although he continued to appear on
630-421: The extent of their holdings. Residents in west part of the District of North Vancouver now had less reason to be connected with what remained and they petitioned to create the District of West Vancouver (the west part of the North Shore, not the west side of Vancouver) in 1912. The eastern boundary of that new municipality is for the most part the Capilano River and a community that is easily distinguished from
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#1732870170267660-401: The favourite of the new names but majority view was that North Vancouver remain in order to remain associated with the rising credibility of Vancouver in financial markets and as a place to attract immigrants. Some thought the boundary of the new city should reflect geography and extend from Lynn Creek or Seymour River west to the Capilano River and extend three miles up the mountainside. That
690-750: The northern portion of the city. It is a freeway for its entire length within the City of North Vancouver. There are six interchanges on Highway 1 within the City of North Vancouver: Public schools are managed by the North Vancouver School District , which operates 8 high schools and 30 elementary schools shared by the city and the District of North Vancouver. The Conseil scolaire francophone de la Colombie-Britannique operates one Francophone school in that city: école André-Piolat , which has both primary and secondary levels. There are also several independent private elementary and high schools in
720-406: The post-war years. By that time, North Vancouver became a popular housing area. The City of North Vancouver is separated from Vancouver by the Burrard Inlet , and it is surrounded on three sides by the District of North Vancouver. The city has much in common with the district and with West Vancouver ; together, the three are commonly referred to as the North Shore . The City of North Vancouver
750-449: The short-run sitcom XPM . He received several ACTRA and Juno awards and was an Officer of the Order of Canada . In 2003, Broadfoot received a Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement for his work in broadcasting. He wrote an autobiography, also entitled Old Enough to Say What I Want ( ISBN 0-7710-1657-3 ). He retired in 2005. Beginning in 2006,
780-641: The show as an occasional guest star, including the TV series finale in 2008. In addition to stand-up routines in the traditional format, Broadfoot created a number of recurring characters including, most notably: After leaving Air Farce, Broadfoot toured comedy clubs and appeared at the Just for Laughs festival. He starred in the 1998 comedy special, Old Enough To Say What I Want , and two years later in Old Dog, New Tricks , winning Gemini Awards for both. Broadfoot also starred in
810-477: The two North Vancouvers has since developed. The City of North Vancouver continued to grow around the foot of Lonsdale Avenue. Serviced by the North Vancouver Ferries, it proved a popular area. Commuters used the ferries to work in Vancouver. Street cars and early land speculation, spurred interest in the area. Streets, city blocks and houses were slowly built around lower Lonsdale. Wallace Shipyards, and
840-416: The vast majority being Persian . Mother languages as reported by each person: 3.1% of North Vancouver residents listed both English and a non-official language as mother tongues. According to the 2021 census , religious groups in North Vancouver included: Arthur Heywood-Lonsdale Arthur Pemberton Heywood-Lonsdale (9 January 1835 – 24 February 1897) was an English rower and landowner who
870-575: Was High Sheriff of two counties and a substantial investor in North Vancouver . Lonsdale was the son of Rev. Henry Gylby Lonsdale and his wife Anna Maria Heywood. He was the nephew of John Lonsdale , Bishop of Lichfield. Lonsdale was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford , where he graduated as B.A. in 1858. He rowed at Oxford and was in the Oxford crew in the Boat Race in 1856 and 1857. In 1857, Lonsdale also partnered Edmond Warre in
900-483: Was opened in 1902. The district was able to build a municipal hall in 1903 and actually have meetings in North Vancouver (instead of in Vancouver where most of the landowners lived). The first bank and first newspaper arrived in 1905. In 1906 the BC Electric Railway Company opened up a street car line that extended from the ferry wharf up Lonsdale to 12th Street. By 1911 the streetcar system extended west to
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