Overview
Address
906 Salsbury Dr, Vancouver BC
Neighbourhood
Grandview-Woodland
type
Residential
grants
VHF Restore It 2010
Description
The Pilling House was built in 1908. The house’s history reflects the evolving social and economic character of the Grandview-Woodland neighbourhood in the early 1900s. The neighbourhood was envisioned as a prestigious area, but it lost out to competing interests, in particular the opening up Shaughnessy. By the 1920s and through the 1940s the neighbourhood, like the Pilling House itself, had a more middle-class, and eventually working class, character.
Charles Knight, president and general manager of the Western Pacific Development Company lived here from 1910 to 1913. William Walker, manager of the Canadian Electric Power Company, lived here from 1914 to 1915. The shift to middle-class ownership came in 1916. Long-term owners James and Marion Pilling settled here in 1922. James was an adjuster with the Canadian Credit Men’s Trust Association.
Source
City of Vancouver, VHF Files
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