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the railroad tracks. We overlooked the chemical works and at that time there was the New England 10 By Bill Burt Fishing Company there too. They had a huge steel building and they made fish meal and fish oil from bottom fish, and mostly herring. I can still remember the stench from them boiling and processing

........................................90 Craigflower Farm, c. 1860......................................................................91 Agnes McKenzie, c. 1865........................................................................91 Robert Burnaby’s Grave, Emmanuel Church, Loughborough, England.........92 Woodthorpe Grange, near

. R: Here is another picture of mother , Ethel Harriet Hutchings - a prairie name. The Hutchings came over from England in 1840. D: Great Grandmother Harriet Gifford was born about 1823. Great Grandpa Elisha Hutchings, who was a farmhand , arrived in Canada in 1843, having run away with Great Grandma

is notable as being the first municipality on the coast to adopt the single tax, all buildings and other real estate improvements being exempt from taxation.” Henry J. Boam, British Columbia: Its History, People, Commerce, Industries and Resources. London, England: Sells Limited, 1912. 4 �history centers

" soils this prop- erty captured the imagination of a number of new English immigrants to British Columbia who were intent on building country homes and earning a living through the cultivation of small market gardens. The first to purchase was Louis Claude Hill who had come to B.C. horn England in 1889