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, yelling "Track! Track!" as they shot like a bullet down the hill, being almost smothered when their ride ended up in one of the tall snow banks on Columbia Street. He mentioned how, when it was cold enough, they risked life and limb by steering between the �snow banks and flying over the wharf ramp

the snow is on the ground, you m a y perceive indeed the footprints of animals, of birds, of deer, or oc- casionally of a bear, but you hear no sound, not a cry, not a whisper, not a rustle of a leaf. Sit down upon a fallen tree, and the silence becomes oppressive, almost painful. It is a relief even

from the government. Great timber running as large as six to eight feet in diameter and 150 feet in height abound in almost limitless tracts in the n orth. This timber is largely fir, although cedar, spruce, and hemlock are found in great amounts. The logs are towed down the Pacific in huge rafts, each

of a newspaper, and stated that editors should not sit in the Assembly. Fine liberal is he not? Nevertheless, DeCosmos was nominated and after giving a speech in which he “passed some biting strictures on Mr. Burnaby for his dubious political manoeuver”, he won the nomination by an almost unanimous show of hands

by blowing it up with dynamite. Almost immediately the water would recede and just as quickly the beavers would set about reconstructing their dam. This tussle between man and beast went on until the beaver, which were trapped for their pelts by the Indians, were almost extinct in the lake. Up until

�11 Over the years, the people of Burnaby have been served by the B.C. Electric Railway (B.C.E.R.) over five separate rail lines. Here are just a few of my personal memories of this almost forgotten period of time: We start in the south with the “Marpole-New Westminster” interurban line. When I was

to Edmonton. J: When was your mother born ? R : O h , 1884. H: So, when the Harts left, was that when you people moved in ? D: Yes , we were the next ones after the Harts; and then after that Ralph Baker from Standard Oil bought it from us, when mother got sick and died. J: Dinty and I almost moved

- ing". The residents of Burnaby Lake were also getting impatient with the condition of Douglas Road which became at times almost impass- able. When Burnaby was finally granted munici- �pal status in 1892, Claude Hill and Arthur Haszard, both of the Douglas Road district, were elected Councillors

- inatory legislation by Canada’s federal, provincial and municipal governments that targeted Chinese Canadians by limiting opportunities to live, work and raise families in Canada. The Chinese Exclusion Act banned almost all migration from China and remained in place until 1947. Publishing this book

the 1920s, newcomers continued to arrive from across Canada, the United States, other parts of Europe (particularly northern Europe), and Asia. Europeans fluent in English worked almost everywhere, but often lived close to others who shared a similar cultural background. For example, Scandinavian fishermen

almost completely covered by cranberry marsh, dissected by several trout-bearing creeks. Cattails, used for weaving mats, were harvested in these marshland areas, as were muskrats—animals commonly trapped by hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh people for their meat and fur. Cranberries, as a source