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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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(A view point on the Vancouver Horseshoe Bay Highway)
Before you lies one of the most intricate coastlines in the world. Into this sheltered straight, ageless domain of the Indian, sailed Jose Narvaez in the year 1791. Other Spaniards and George Vancouver followed. Fighting wind and tide, they charted this remote maze of waterways – a milestone in the mapping of the world.
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(At Annieville, on South Arm of Fraser River, south of Vancouver)
This site, on the world’s greatest sockeye salmon river, lured many pioneer canners in the late 1860s and early 1871s. Pre-eminent was Alexander Ewen, a founder and first president of BC Packers, who established a cannery here in 1871. The new salmon canning industry thrived on exports to foreign markets until by 1900 it was among the most important in the province.
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(10 miles north of Horseshoe Bay Ferry Terminal, Highway 99)
The P.G.E. derived its name from England’s Great Eastern Railway. Begun by private interests in 1912, it was acquired by the province in 1918 when the builders ran into financial difficulties. Opening between Squamish and Quesnel from 1921, it was extended to Prince George in 1952, to North Vancouver in 1956, and to Dawson Creek and Fort St. John in 1958.
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