These walls were constructed between the early 1920s and the mid 1960s, many of them make-work projects, a legacy of the
Dirty Thirties. They show varying methods and styles of construction which changed with the times. Some were dry laid, without mortar, while most were set in mortar. The walls employing larger rocks indicate their construction in later periods, when more and larger equipment became available to the stone masons.
The city has recently placed ten bronze plaques at strategic points throughout the city which indicate the date of construction of particular walls and the names of the stone masons who laid them. This is a wonderful way to commemorate these stone masons from yesteryear and the legacy they have left behind for future generations.
This wall supports Daniel Street in West Trail, a neighbourhood which climbs up the side of the valley in a series of terraces. Leading south off Topping Street is a short, block long Street named Munter which makes a right angle turn and climbs up to Daniel Street. This wall separates the two, and is about twenty feet tall at the bottom of Munter, reducing to almost nothing as Munter reaches Daniel Street. This plaque is mounted on the wall at the south end of Munter, where the wall is its highest. It tells us that the wall was constructed between 1938 and 1941. The stonemasons involved were:
Tom Stipanicic and John Bukovec. There were probably others whose names are now lost to posterity.
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