Archive

• Gammage’s Gold Rush Circle Tour of Fraser River and the Harrison – Lillooet Route
• Sketch of the Town of Douglas on Harrison Lake by Oliver Hare
• Wade’s Landing – Frank Wade and Kate Chastaqua
• North Road – The Burrard Inlet Trail Company, 1859-1860
• Dum Dums And Buns: The New Westminster Bridge Shootout
• Carbon Monoxide Killed “Happy Mac” at White House Service Station – Assistant Also Found Dead
• Christmas at Qayqayt, 1905
• When Oysters Were Eggs: Dining Out in 1879
• Superincumbent Snow Caved Roofs
• Boardwalk on Columbia Street, 1883
• Plank Crossing on Columbia Street
• Slips and Landings
• New Westminster Post Office Building 1882-1898
• John Cunningham Brown: His Writing Not Fit For A Policeman, He Became A Journalist
• A Singular Coincidence: Glyde Twin Sisters Widowed Together
• Betts Dropped Off Alice And Was Drowned In Fraser River
• Alex McCrimmon Bootmaker and Hotelier at Granville, Burrard Inlet
• Man Found in Fraser River Was Identified By His Boots in 1874
• Slough Boot on Fraser River
• “Compact City” – Density With Urban Amenities The Original Vancouverism
• Single Tax City: Vancouver’s Worldwide Celebrity, 1911
• Henry George in British Columbia
• The USS Shubrick in Early British Columbia History
• Another Man, Another Monument – Erwin Swangard Leveraged Community Spirit in the City
• They dreamed of a baseball diamond – Local men built Whalley Ball Park
• Clarice Harkley and Women Volunteers Created First Whalley Park
• Volunteers Saved South Westminster in ’48 Flood
• TUTS TIMBER! Triumphs
• The Carson Family — Fraser Valley Farm Drama Aired Daily For 25 Years on CBC
• Life of Henry Bose Aired on CBC
• Westminster’s Wig-Wag Weatherman
• Peele’s Museum
• A Column in The Columbian and a Post in the Library — 150 Years of the News & Weather Round-Up
• Pacific Highway Bicycle Races in the 1920s and 1930s
• We Signal Well!
• We’re Walkin’ Ridin’ Drivin’ Here – Traffic Safety an Issue in 1937
• Wheeling In the Years
• Waterfront Blazes At South Westminster And White Rock Made Spectacular Summer Shows
• Jeremiah Rogers and Ebenezer Brown
• Sophie Browne and Fred Clark – 70 Years at South Westminster
• Sons of Owen Wormley Browne
• Owen Wormley Browne: Miner, Barber, Oyster Farmer
• Abraham Reid To Captain Frank Reid
• Miners Burton Isom and Thomas Park
• Photograph of Elizabeth Emeline Forister
• Elizabeth and Tom Forister (Forrester)
• AC Cooper’s Lost Homestead A Boon For George Wallace
• Cross One At Ninth: Failure to Wait and Let Pass Caused Commuter Train Crash
• Every Man To His Own Professions – Brownsville Teacher and Doctor SB Peele
• Chinese New Year An Old Tradition in British Columbia
• Cut to the Chase — All’s Well That Ends Well
• Lower Mainland Highway Maps – 1926 and 1929
• Fraser Valley and Whatcom County Highways Map, 1925
• Opposite the City From The City
• All Watered Up: Drinks to Sigh For
• WEW Williams – New Westminster – Scorpion Publisher & First Librarian
• Standard Warning Signs on British Columbia Highways, 1937
• The Trans-Provincial Highway
• An appreciation of the Public Library
• Early British Columbia Cattle and Horse Brands
• The Last Brownsville Ranch
• Whalley Gas Toots – Just Bein’ Friendly!
• Whalley Lake
• White House Service Station – First Gas Station on the Paved Pacific Highway
• Making Light of Old News — Whalley Meets Mayberry
• Raking Them In – Brownsville Bears Fished for Oolichans
• Burst Pipes Sank Brownsville Ferry
• The Fairy Queen of Fraser River
• Stanley Docks on Fraser River
• Finding A Home for Immigrants in the 1880s
• Leckie Boots on Salisbury Plain – The Quartermaster’s Testimonial
• Pitt River tidal wave claimed three men after blast at old Government quarry in 1915
• A bounty on Blue Jays and stallions at large: The list of animal “pests” in early British Columbia
• ‘Naturally Beautiful And Salubrious’ – A South Westminster Subdivision,1891.
• Colonel Donald McGregor – Librarian at New Westminster and Grand Old Man of the Yukon
• Early Monuments Commemorating Explorer Simon Fraser
• Fire on the Water, Smoke in the Sky – The 1944 Canada Day Blaze on Fraser River
• Tolls failed to pay for Pattullo Bridge – Removal sparked spontaneous celebration
• Quiet ceremony at Gairn’s camp marked start of construction on electric railway in Fraser Valley
• ‘Influential persons’ – How New Westminster got its wish for more automobile traffic
• Hikawa Maru on Fraser River, 1939
• A Vast Smoke – Forest Fires Disrupt Navigation and Communication – Reports from Pioneer Times, Including the Drought of 1868
• The Colonist Printing & Publishing Company Logo
• Register the Baby’s Birth – A Poster from 1929
• Boat Builder George Isomura
• Benoist & Son – Pioneer Boat Builders of the Fraser
• Pheasants were set free at South Westminster to provide sport for marksmen
• New Westminster a Salt-Water Port? – Another Engineering Marvel from Captain George H Cooper
• Cut his chops on Fraser River–TD Coldicutt in steamboat war
• Chasing the Horizon: Some incidents in the life of Captain George H. Cooper
• The Steamer “Courser” Stands In As Ferry
• A Brakeman’s last ride–John Pushee brought home by Fraser River
• Fire aftermath: the torch of public opinion
• Gladys Under Way
• Mystical City of the Fraser
• City class and rural virtue: A Restaurant–Farm Partnership
• The color of the Salmon Berry in spring.
• Keeping Time With Steamers
• Alexander Williams of Derby – A Black Pioneer
• Joseph William Burr – Saddler & Policeman
• Sic Transit Judicium
• Flag Foist
• Burr Block–In the Room of the Second Looking-Glass
• Burr’s Columbia Hotel–First on the Block
• Mustard Sandwiches and Church Lemonade
• Billy Nickels of the Poney Saloon
• Sunken grave at Old Scow – The murder of Richard Bailey
• The Maple Ridge Slide
• January 1880–A long winter to break up
• Desperate Deeds and Heroic Exploits-December 1879
• 1875–Record low at New Westminster / Barkerville melter out in the cold
• Stock, Lox and Barrels – From the Hard Winter of 1862
• Left too late: Gold miners suffer on overland trek in winter of ‘58
• First Observers for the Canadian Meteorological Service in British Columbia
• First weathermen in BC were military men
• Severe Weather & Extreme Ways
• Property Owners Maps Update
• Storm surge batters Delta farms
• Missing Tree at Garry Point
• Vanished from the Surrey ferry–The mysterious disappearance of John Wesley Pickard
• Bridge liberated: Fraser River tolls removed
• Horses, motors and perambulators: A clash of road enthusiasts in Stanley Park
• Stained Glass Peace Arch at Victoria BC
• The tie that binds—Warren G Harding and International Good Will
• The Sacred Faith of a Scrap of Paper
• Motoring ascendant, peace transcendent: The Pacific Highway Peace Centenary Commemoration of 1915
• By a scrap of paper bound
• Britannia and Columbia at the Peace Centenary Ball of June 1914
• The Peace Arch in 1913 – an idea germinated
• An over-arching theme: The Pacific Highway Association meeting at Vancouver BC, 1913
• Roads ready,rocked and oiled – 200 autos coming to the Pacific Highway Association convention – Vancouver BC – 1913
• A Happier Suggestion – The Peace Centenary
• Pathfinding the Pacific Highway: AE Todd and Ada Todd in 1910
• Bands of steel & friendly ties – The first boundary arch
• Arch Way – Lord and Lady Dufferin in B.C.
• Pacific Highway farm produce stand
• Thirty-seven curves from Langley
• Map of New Westminster District BC, 1882
• Post Office Inspectors Reports
• RC Moody, RE – A map of his complete land holdings in British Columbia, 1873
• A place called Gyproc
• Tanks and oil tankers to Fraser River port
• Distilling alder wood – the start of a chemical industry on Fraser River
• Cut to fit for model towns–Liverpool & Ioco
• Introducing industry into a pastoral setting
• Fraser River Elevator No. 1
• Royal City Brand:model village at bridge end
• Whalley’s Corner Gas
• Hanging to tree – The Unidentified Man of Pacific Highway
• Army boots to school boots–leather made locally
• A Paradise for our venture – El Bar Ranch on the Pacific Highway
• Fish run, waters rise
• Hopes for hops, but pastures proved greener for Brownsville farmers
• Waffle-board stage ride from Brownsville inspired Pacific Highway advocate Sam Hill
• Historic house of Ebenezer Brown lost
• Brownsville Indians lacrosse team the first
• Sherriff-Rose – A South Westminster subdivision plan
• Green Timbers photos by Hugh Weatherby
• Hops hip again
• Home grown – Two photographers from the Fraser Valley – George Nelson and Alfred Broe
• By Maple Tree, Post & Parcel–WJ Brewer and his father Sampson Brewer
• Jason Ovid Allard–The late arrival
• Freight cars and island treasure – the speculative ventures of Captain SF MacKenzie
• On a beach below the bridge
• Too hot for the competition: Tom Coldicutt and the Blue Funnel Motor Line of jitneys.
• HB Armitage and Valley Lumber Yards
• The last corner of the Government Reserve
• John Robson–Rifle Range–Scott Rd Station
• Granite blocks and handsome fronts
• Not Walley. . . Whalley
• Anton Klavanes – carpenter homesteader
• The VW&Y Ry, 1904 – An interurban service
• Brownsville geology– a bedrock mystery
• Coal fever land rush
• The Lost Mines of Brownsville Hill
• Joseph Rush Edwards–Wounded in Crimea
• Three bridges on Fraser River
• Wait at the corner
• Sydney Smith – within walking distance
• Ole John Nilson Brudvik
• Hans Espeland and family
• William Charles Bournes – first a kitchen
• Nils Sandell – Rails at the ready
• James Prestidge
• Michael Davey – Settler of Kwantlen Park
• E.B. Ingebrigtsen–An opening in the woods
• Nils Christian Hjorth–his first homestead
• John Hamilton McInnes – So few like him
• John Douglas – a future city centre
• James Wilson of Toy Cottage, Brownsville
• Martin Nelson – Brownsville BC, 1876
• Brownsville BC–The Upland Homesteads
• City Gate on Scott Road
• Ah Foo – A South Westminster Wood Yard
• Timber by rail
• From Trunk Roads to Freeways – Lower Mainland Highways Maps 1930-1967
• The lower right corner – South Westminster in road maps of Vancouver
• Map of New Westminster District
• New Westminster & Yale Map, 1914 – Surrey
• Thoroughfare: Commuting by river, rail and highway
• A. C. Cooper and his neighbors
• Captain James A Robinson: The Workingman’s Candidate
• Archie McCorvie, Aunt Martha and Harold McCracken – Changes on the North Thompson river
• Christopher Lee – steamboat engineer
• CV Cummings of Canadian Northern Construction — On A Parallel Track
• Lee Coy: Contractor of labor on the New Westminster Southern Railway
• Angus L McCoy: Making tracks on the New Westminster Southern Railway
• Bradshaw & Lemon — Contractors on the New Westminster Southern Railway
• McCorvie & Bonson – Contractors
• James Leamy as general contractor on the New Westminster Southern Railway
• Leamy & Kyle – Sawmill on False Creek
• Branch Lines – Leamy extends the CPR
• George F Kyle – The Very Model Timekeeper
• William Black Kyle
• Howard Tilton– Freight Agent, Merchant
• Edward Gibson Tilton – Railroad Engineer, Merchant & Platter of Las Vegas
• Sarah Onderdonk’s Salon: Cleaving the heart of the Cascade Range
• New Westminster Southern Railway Survey
• A series about railway contractors.
• Adrift in the ice on Fraser River
• Mostly forgotten – ice exploits of times past
• E Brown, Wine & Spirit Merchant, and his successors LF Bonson and A Matheson.
• Brown’s Landing watercraft
• Viewed another way
• Medianeras – JW Freeston’s New Westminster
• Custom House Connections
• Grand railway celebration and the morning after: the New Westminster fire of 1891.
• William Moresby – The right man
• Crooked Methods & High Contempt — The Kennedy newspaper scandal of 1892
• Surrey Arrested — Robert Kennedy v City
• Hugh Murray – Ex ‘Thames City’
• Henry Morey to Joe Plaskett – bridge views
• Support for Bridges
• James Owen McNamee
• Johnnie Wise & The Blue Mouse Hotel
• The latter days of the Brownsville hoteliers
• The western boundary of the railway belt
• A land office business
• Wilkes Expedition Map of Fraser’s River
• Correction and Information
• The nature of a tree
• In view of times past
• Face-off at Herring’s Point
• To Calm the Public Mind –Selling Section 8
• Early Land Sales Opposite New Westminster
• The Maber Investigation
• The last great land rush
• A bridge by half
• Or wander with delight
• In the fog at Brownsville – No right turn
• Nils Christian Hjorth
• Gastown – Granville Townsite Map
• Hastings Townsite Map
• Mud Bay graveyard
• Initial Point — The Boundary Obelisk
• In the swamp, 1859
• Map of Property Owners, 1880
• Hard Landing — Bishop Hills’ Day Trip
• Pacific Highway, 1928 – Peat Moss Industry
• Pacific Highway bog, 1927 -Practical matters
• South Port Mann Bog, 1927
• WJ Brewer – Very Near Another City
• Hugh McRoberts’ city farm
• Fraser River Bridges – Edge of the Royal City
• Fraser River, Brownsville
• Hugh McRoberts – the road home
• Bridge Look-out
• Carried
• Migrating Trees Floating Stones New Life
• ‘South Westminster Ferry Wharf Doomed’
• Time of High Water Past
• Line of View– Bridge to Yale Road – 1902
• Mudlarkin’ on the Fraser River
• Found Brick Bonds
• Murdoch Morrison died at Brownsville
• Off the beaten track – days of roses and wine
• Hills aglow
• Span Floating – View of Brown’s Wharf
• Mayflower II–The Timberland Contribution
• Timberland – Giving Way and Passing On
• Timberland, Salmon River and War Effort
• The Battle of Timberland Road
• Civic Pride: Toronto’s CNE flagpole
• Big and Long –The Timberland Specialty
• Timberland Fraser River Booming Grounds
• Working at Timberland Lumber mill
• Marketing Timberland Lumber
• Timberland Development Company– Logging on Vancouver Island
• Timberland Lumber Company Sawmill on Fraser River, 1918
• Timberland Lumber Co – “Mills at Craigs”
• The Timberland team takes form
• Timberland Lumber Company – A Fresh Start for JG Robson
• Telephone Exchange Prefix Names
• Fraser River Tannery
• Dredge King Edward VII
• Captain Reuben Purdy
• New Westminster from Opposite, 1896
• Creech Lithographs of New Westminster
• Brownsville Postmaster Michael R Barry
• Brownsville Postmaster John Beaton
• Captain Reuben Boltenhouse Purdy
• Captain James Walter Rogers
• Captain James Leander Card
• Captain William Philpot Grant
• Fraser River Ferry Surrey–Masters & Crew
• Punch & Quible — Brownsville BC Pioneers
• Peterson Hill – then and now
• Our First Four-Lane Highway, 1937
• Pacific Highway views, 1931
• "Almost Perfect" – Paving the Pacific Highway, 1919 – 1920
• The Inter-Provincial Highway
• Closing the gaps – The Pacific Highway, 1911
• The New Yale Road at Brownsville, 1910
• The Westminster Bridge Road, 1904
• The Yale Road to 1904
• George Green of Sapperton and Cariboo
• Loss and heroism – the Moore farm fire
• Off on a tangent — Fraser River Junction
• Trestle approach to Fraser River Bridge
• Brownsville Fraser River Air Photos
• Brownsville River Frontage, 1919
• Generation Skipped — The Ankers Tragic Link
• A Brownsville Encampment
• John William Stein – Part 1 – Under the Spell
• John William Stein–Part 2– Exiles
• John William Stein – Part 3 – Brownsville BC
• John William Stein – Part 4 – New Religion
• Surrey’s finest hour
• Loose ends–Acts of God & governance
• Yankees came, and tore up the tracks again
• George’s Hotel and Pike’s place in it
• Rising spirits: colportage and coal exploration
• Sold down the river–Liverpool looses out
• The Queen’s Birthday Blaze
• Waiting for trains –Brownsville spring, 1891
• The ferry “Surrey”– River front fire engine
• On Brownsville Hill – The suspicious death of Michael Davey
• First runs and auspicious openings
• Three full stops on the line
• Any land to boom?
• Shove the construction
• War games and crack shots
• Darkness brooding
• City Limits: A piece of Surrey in New Westminster
• Of a forest past
• Walter James Walker, builder of St Helen’s
• Brownsville School
• Brownsville School Roll Call 1892 – 1913
• The cool confidence
• Under the gentle slope of the hill
• Of the first class
• Routes and lines
• Brownsville BC 1882 — Ice, high water and illuminations
• The Wharf at Brown’s Landing
• A Derby Too
• In the Flow — Brownsville 1879
• Not the Country for Serfdom: Land Settlement and Roadmaking Opposite the City of New Westminster, 1858 – 1879