This photo from 1906 shows the interior of the North Vancouver Express offices, specifically the printing department.
From August 1905 to December 1912, The Express served the North Shore from offices on West Esplanade at Lonsdale.
A weekly paper, The Express was published by The Express Printing Co. with George Bartley at the helm as managing editor. Subscriptions for the paper were only a dollar per year.
The Express was the first newspaper published in the two North Vancouver municipalities. However, the prize for the first newspaper published on the North Shore (and Burrard Inlet) goes to the Moodyville Tickler – the newspaper for the mill town of Moodyville.
The first issue of the Tickler was dated July 20, 1878. Today the name “Express” lives on in the newsletter published by the Friends of the North Vancouver Museum & Archives Society.
For more information about the history of the North Shore and to learn about the new Museum of North Vancouver opening in late-2020, visit nvma.ca and sign up for the museum’s e-newsletter at bit.ly/35MWr83.
Currently, the Archives of North Vancouver at 3203 Institute Rd. in Lynn Valley is open by appointment only. Contact: [email protected].
