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
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