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Burnaby, Numbers: 24, 29, 39 and 40 reproduced with permission of Pat Burnaby and Meg Kennedy Shaw. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data Burnaby, Robert, 1828-1878 Land of Promise Includes biographical references and index. ISBN 0-9692828-5-0 1.Burnaby, Robert

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

Engineer, or the n e w l y a r r i v e d emigrant found himself would be most alluring. T o the Engineer, fresh from the M o t h e r l a n d , where a densely populated condition prevailed, where game was private property, and h u n t i n g was poaching, to the fresh, unfettered freedom of a land teeming w

Before the advent of settlers in the last half of the 19th century, the mass of land now known as Burnaby was host to tall timbers and an abundance of wildlife. Bordered by the mighty Fraser River on one side and the salt- waters of the Burrard Inlet on the other, this peaceful area lay waiting

; Our confidence is sure That we will grow far greater yet, In future years to come. The sun in gladness always sets On Burnaby, our home. Burnaby, dear Burnaby! Trees, mountain, river, lakes Adorn your land so beauteously, Here we have set out stakes. Here flowers bloom, blue skies and sun Will always

properties. As part of the land acquisition process the City of Burnaby has acquired many of the area's fin- est buildings and landscapes. The importance of this collection of heritage resources was recog- nized in some of the earliest plans for the devel- opment of the park and formally protected during

Indigenous peoples have had with the land known today as Burnaby. It also will serve as an important resource to develop curriculum-based materials for local teachers and students. Developing the Indigenous History in Burnaby Resource Guide is one part of the City of Burnaby’s response to the Calls to Acton

of the land, some settlers argued that such lands were “available” for settlement and “improvement,” which in their view meant clearing land for agriculture. In 1858, the Fraser River gold rush prompted the British government to create the Colony of British Columbia. The British claimed control of the land

of Halkomelem speaking Central Coast Salish First Nations. The Saleelwat peoples whose permanent village site was at "Tetimexwten" (Belcarra) was one historic group that would have used the land and shoreline of Barnet to gather food and other resources. The life of aboriginal peoples here was organized around