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(A view point on Agassiz Mountain, 5 miles south of Agassiz)
About a mile beneath the river in front of you lies the old rock floor of this valley. For over 50 million years the Fraser, interrupted by periods of glaciation and of mountain building, has carried soil from the Interior. Once through the mountain, it slowed and built this broad fertile delta for 60 miles to the sea.
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(A view point 87 miles north of Vancouver and near Laidlaw on the Trans-Provincial Highway)
Our past, present and future are linked with the Fraser. The past saw fur-traders, the gold-rush of 1858, and early settlers. The present sees waters teeming with migrating salmon and a highway and railways confined to the gorge carved by the river. The Fraser, beautiful, bountiful and powerful, must always flow in the pattern of out future.
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(On Abbotsford-Sumas Highway, south of Highway 401)
The 10,778’ white cone on the Washington skyline is a recent volcano. The name honours Lieut. Baker who first sighted it with Capt. Vancouver in 1792. In 1868 E. T. Coleman recorded the first ascent. Eruptions, occurring as late as 1881, left fissures from which sulphur fumes still rise. Once a mysterious, remote peak, its slopes now host skiers of the northwest.
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(British Columbia Penitentiary Grounds, main gate, New Westminster)
The official residence of Colonel R. C. Moody, R.E. was built near this site in 1859. In 1864 it was altered to become the Government House of the mainland Colony of British Columbia and was used by Governor James Douglas and Fredrick Seymour.
After New Westminster ceased to be the capital in 1868, the building fell into disrepair and was ultimately destroyed.
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(At the New Westminster Historic Centre and Museum)
Arriving in British Columbia from the United States in 1859, Scottish-born Capt. William Irving pioneered the riverboat trade of the lower Fraser River. In 1862-64, Royal Engineers built his fine home of California redwood in the Popular San Francisco Gothic Revival style. It stands almost unchanged, an expression of the prosperity and tastes of the 19th century commercial classes.
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