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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

at the distant forts of "the Hudson's B a y Company,—that Indians also set up their lodges, or built rude shacks beside the Fraser, w h i c h had, for years been their highway of travel. Close to the river, now protected from their ancient foes, their straggling camp extended f r o m . G l e n B r o o k westward

sites, or to travel further abroad to visit family who had access to special resources like cranberries or wapato (wild potatoes). Ancestral villages ranged in size, from dozens to hundreds of occupants. Some larger villages were home to over 1,000 residents. Central Coast Salish travellers, who did

the new nation now known as Canada. The Canadian Pacific Railway’s transcontinental rail system and steamships made trading and travel between Asia and Europe safer and more efficient. Despite their important contributions, Chinese railroad workers did not receive fair treatment in the workplace. They

, and they knew that in return for access they might themselves become hosts at a future time. As part of their seasonal round, families would travel to the Fraser River in the spring to fish for eulachon, and would return again in the late summer for the sockeye salmon runs. Many people travelled through