When Stan Fryer and his family moved to the White Rock-South Surrey area in the 1930s, it was all summer cottages and trees.
Born in 1926 in Moose Jaw, Sask., the White Rock resident, now 98 years old, recalled moving with his family — he, his parents and four brothers crammed into an old Chevy — to South Surrey when he was about 10, in 1936.