were enjoyed. Small beaches attracted swimmers to the water but care had to be taken to enter the water in the right spots since the lake bottom consisted mainly of unknown depths of soft peat into which one could easily sink. In the winter the lake usually froze over solidly enough to allow skating

.' "The automobile purred its way down Hast- ings... It is a road that curves continually into something unknown, in which there is always a fascination. It hides everything in front as if it treasured it and no wonder. For hidden among acres of British Columbia Forest, tucked in the huge lap of heights whose name

ancestors used shallow dugout canoes, like the one pictured here at Deer Lake in 1900, to navigate riverways. City of Burnaby Archives, 477-753. Photographer unknown, 1900. �12 Crabapple was a common fruit available on the western edge of Burnaby Lake near Still Creek. It was preserved for winter months