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, with Kanaka crewmen, all curled crinkly hair and boy could they ever travel up the rigging. Boy, I tell you they were just like monkeys - I used to go and talk to them and Id get little boxes and the Japs would give me boxes of wooden safety matches and the other guys would give me things, too. There were no

at the distant forts of "the Hudson's B a y Company,—that Indians also set up their lodges, or built rude shacks beside the Fraser, w h i c h had, for years been their highway of travel. Close to the river, now protected from their ancient foes, their straggling camp extended f r o m . G l e n B r o o k westward

sites, or to travel further abroad to visit family who had access to special resources like cranberries or wapato (wild potatoes). Ancestral villages ranged in size, from dozens to hundreds of occupants. Some larger villages were home to over 1,000 residents. Central Coast Salish travellers, who did

-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

on the boulevard. BURNABY HISTORICAL SOCIETY relying on public transit had to travel to downtown Vancouver by street car and then east along the Central Park interurban line to Edmonds to pay their taxes at the munic- ipal hall. It is interesting to note that into the late 1950s, North Burnaby Firemen using public

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

, and they knew that in return for access they might themselves become hosts at a future time. As part of their seasonal round, families would travel to the Fraser River in the spring to fish for eulachon, and would return again in the late summer for the sockeye salmon runs. Many people travelled through

and would also travel to Vancouver with us to see the performances. D: I remember seeing Peter Pan fly across the stage at the old Empress Theatre on Hastings Street and things like that. Mother was an accomplished pianist... she used to play beautifully. A l l of us played instruments of one kind