It’s not every day an opportunity comes along to live in the former home of the highest-ranking officer of the province and a representative of royalty. But the four-storey Tudor and Gothic-revival estate of lieutenant-governor Eric Hamber, who purchased the Shaughnessy property in 1913 and named it Greencroft, is now on the market at a reduced price, due to a court-ordered sale.

Hamber, who served as lieutenant-governor from 1936 to 1941, started his career as a banker. According to Vancouver West End History and newspaper clippings at the time, shortly after marrying Aldyen Hendry in 1912, he joined her industrialist father’s mill and trading company, who left it to the couple upon his death in 1916. Hamber’s businesses eventually encompassed successes in timber, banking, railways and

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