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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

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

England, a place so named did not even officially exist. Claude Hill was 19 years of age when he left England to go to America in 1879. He joined up with a friend of similar age and the two of them lived for a time with the friend's uncle in the eastern part of the United States. Later, young Hill made

" 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

and the people in it. Colonial officials and Royal Engineers soon arrived from England to establish New Westminster as the colony’s capital. Settlers were encouraged to claim title to land through a process called pre-emption. In colonial and later provincial law, pre-emption allowed people to claim a piece

created, or joined, Indigenous political organizations to protest encroachment on their lands and alienation from their resources. For example, in 1906 several Coast and Interior Salish Nations joined together to send a small delegation to England to petition King Edward about their shared concerns over

........................................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

at Second Street school in 1928. Teacher, not pictured, was Miss Evans. George Leaf T he incorporation of Burnaby as a municipality was still a good four years i n the future w h e n the Burgess family arrived i n Canada from England i n 1888, staying temporarily i n N e w Westminster a n d b u y i n g land