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of the spring and summer when the weather is favorable. ...Meanwhile I like the climate on this island and its scenery is lovely, nothing can be more splendid on a clear day than the view we get of the snow-streaked mountains on the mainland, the “land of promise”. Robert Burnaby Victoria V.I. January 22, 1859

of the overhanging thicket, were fish of many kinds. 1. from " A Bishop In The R o u g h , " by R e v . J o h n Sheepshanks, page 22 �T h e silvery salmon passed up the F r a s e r i n innumerable m y r i a d s in those days, far i n excess of the runs of later years, (1) answering, i n the autumn of their lives

raging for sev- eral days. Men from the British Columbia Electric Railway Company along with the Gilley Bros, (loggers in the area) brought the fire under control, using a small fire truck owned by the Gilleys. When clearing land to construct Cariboo Road, a brush fire was left unattended on the evening

School”. The building still exists today as a private home on the south- east corner of 19th Avenue and Canada Way. School started January 22, 1894 with teacher Miss Ethel Le Page in charge of a class of twenty-eight students, which grew to forty- one within a few days. Some of these students were quite