Month: March 2015

  • TV and press comment on demolition threat

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    In recent days CTV news has aired a clip regarding the pending demolition of both of Mack Laing’s former homes. View the clip here: http://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=567633 And on March 10, in the Comox Valley Record, the Under the Glacier editorial cartoon has also made a statement. View the e-edition of the newspaper here: http://www.comoxvalleyrecord.com/eeditions/?iid=i20150310050014241 There have…

  • A last look at Baybrook …

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    The MLHS thanks Sharon Niscak for allowing us to post these photographs of Baybrook House on a beautiful spring day, the last Spring it will see, after 92 years. This house, along with Shakesides in Mack Laing Park, will soon to be demolished by the Town of Comox …

  • Comox demolishing Mack Laing heritage

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    Thirty three (33) years ago, in January 1982 Mack Laing passed away at the age of 99. He generously donated to the town of Comox the remaining parcel of his land where his second home Shakeside stands. His last Will asks, in trust to the town of Comox, that his home be turned into a…