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, the area was soon developed with small market gardens of fruits and vegetables after logging and sawmill operations transformed the primeval landscape. This early growth set the stage for a dynamic economic boom that would radically change the sleepy rural district. The suburban real-estate boom of 1905

once it had started; descriptions of a community that saw logging give way to agriculture and agriculture elbowed out by industry all in a space of 100 years; descriptions of plots of land cherished as home within a larger land called "Burnaby". �During the last half of the nineteenth century

were very successful from the outset and soon were joined by the Whiting, Ledger, Haszard and Clayton families. Logging companies operating at Burnaby Lake purchased timber from the farm sites which was hauled by oxen to the lake shore. The logs were transported with the assistance of a small steam tug

Council 106 B i g Cedars at R o y a l O a k I l l G i l l e y Bros. Logging- at Gilley i n 1904 116 T e n Foot L o g , E i g h t Foot S a w - 117 D. C. M a c G r e g o r 118 E t h e l L . L e P a g e 119 B u r n a b y ' s F i r s t D a y of School, 1894 120 E l l e n L i s t e r i 2 l �I L L U S T R A T I

logging permits to settlers. Through the 1870s and 1880s, much of Burnaby’s southern side was logged. Logging disrupted the local plant and animal populations on which Indigenous people depended. The logged land was then ready for farming. Over a relatively short period of time, hənq̓ə̓minə̓m̓

knowledge about Burnaby lands and resources, for generations. This loss still profoundly affects communities today. �11 The Central Valley area includes Deer Lake, Burnaby Lake and the Brunette River. It was an intensively used resource area before the arrival of newcomers who cleared the land for logging

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351 �1 Inkwells to Internet: A History of Burnaby Schools �Inkwells to Internet: A History of Burnaby Schools 2 Gilley Brothers logging with oxen moving a large log through the underbrush, circa 1900. BVM HV976.44.14 CHAPTER I: A Splendid Start (1894–1905) W orld history from 1893-1905 was marked

is their house., that was part of their property that went way back up the hill. Joan continues: There was a chap my dad knew, Alexander Henderson, who had been surveying here at the time Gilley Brothers were logging. He told us that this area had one of the finest stands of timber in the lower mainland