Editor, The News:
Re: Mayor’s family home preserved (The News, March 7).
I am thinking that if the Daykin home was so special and important and had so many memories and meant so much to the family, why did they sell it in 1971 to a private contractor, who probably was looking at it as an investment property? And then give the owners a five-year property tax holiday. What?
It will hardly be its true heritage integrity by the time it is split in two, lifted up and turned 90 degrees and have a twin duplex built beside it. Kind of loses its heritage factor.
Might as well just tear it down and build a new complex – probably just as much money by the time all the upgrades and specs reach today’s standards, and maybe call it ‘Daykin Place.’ If Albion Hall really didn’t matter much to council – and, wow, that place had a lot of memories to a lot more people than one family – then why should an old house?
S. Shea
Maple Ridge