Research

. Not being partial to nocturnal travel when bears and cougars might suddenly come out of the bush, Mrs. Hill would stay with friends who lived on Hastings Street in Vancouver. On one occasion on a trip home at dusk from New Westminster, old Tom stopped dead and refused to budge just before the approach

-in-law to Governor James Douglas, and Charles John Riland, who was to become a magistrate at Langley and also lessee of the Hudson’s Bay Company farm there. The three young men decided to travel on together and boarded the Moses Taylor for Aspinwall joining Colonel R.C. Moody, officer com- manding the detachment

except Sundays and holidays. The reason for his early morning travel was his“Morning Sun” paper route. He had to be at the newspaper office at Pender and Abbott Streets in Vancouver at 6:00 a.m. to pick up his papers in order to de- liver them to his customers. Most passengers on the tramlines commuted regularly

the new nation now known as Canada. The Canadian Pacific Railway’s transcontinental rail system and steamships made trading and travel between Asia and Europe safer and more efficient. Despite their important contributions, Chinese railroad workers did not receive fair treatment in the workplace. They