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except Sundays and holidays. The reason for his early morning travel was his“Morning Sun” paper route. He had to be at the newspaper office at Pender and Abbott Streets in Vancouver at 6:00 a.m. to pick up his papers in order to de- liver them to his customers. Most passengers on the tramlines commuted regularly

. Not being partial to nocturnal travel when bears and cougars might suddenly come out of the bush, Mrs. Hill would stay with friends who lived on Hastings Street in Vancouver. On one occasion on a trip home at dusk from New Westminster, old Tom stopped dead and refused to budge just before the approach

-in-law to Governor James Douglas, and Charles John Riland, who was to become a magistrate at Langley and also lessee of the Hudson’s Bay Company farm there. The three young men decided to travel on together and boarded the Moses Taylor for Aspinwall joining Colonel R.C. Moody, officer com- manding the detachment

and would also travel to Vancouver with us to see the performances. D: I remember seeing Peter Pan fly across the stage at the old Empress Theatre on Hastings Street and things like that. Mother was an accomplished pianist... she used to play beautifully. A l l of us played instruments of one kind