Innholdsfortegnelse for 50.3 | Fall 2017 i British Columbia History

One of the joys of the modern age is having the ability to do research in your pyjamas in the middle of the night. So many records are readily available at our fingertips through the magic of digitization. On the one hand digitization makes research so much easier for historians. On the other hand, I know how easy it is when I am researching or fact-checking to get distracted by another fascinating line of research and sucked down the rabbit hole of time like Alice in Wonderland. Three articles in this issue rely on newspaper stories and advertisements to help build the chronologies for their stories. Other headlines jump out at me from the June 20, 1896 Vancouver Daily World — “Burrard Bicycle Club”, “The Coming Carnival”. A search for…

Seth’s daughter Jennie was born in New Brunswick in August 1879, and the Biographical Dictionary of Well-Known British Columbians states that the Tilley family moved back to BC in 1879; however, Tilley and his wife and children are enumerated in the 1880 US census as living in Santa Barbara as of June that year. Both the Biographical Dictionary and the census refer to Mrs. Tilley’s ill health; the census includes only the notation “general debility” and notes that the household included a fifteen-year-old “nurse girl” named Ella Woodworth. Seth Tilley shows up in the 1881 Canadian census records as living at Yale, though his family is not enumerated with him.…

Necessity became the mother of a creative solution in the 1950s for BC Parks. Rapidly increasing public road travel along with an expanding Roadside Development Program presented Park’s staff of the day with a real challenge: how do you resolve the tourist season garbage accumulation? Their answer — they hired ‘Shorty’ Simard. Adelard ‘Shorty’ Simard lived near Enderby. Every Monday morning he would get in his half ton pickup truck and in the following five days he would drive from Vernon, to Kamloops, to Lytton the Fraser Canyon to Hope then via the Hope-Princeton through Manning Park to Penticton and finally, late on Friday afternoon, he would arrive home. After the weekend with his family, this 700+ kilometre garbage run would be repeated. From early in the 1950s and into…

1. Government of Canada Sessional Paper 1, Public Works Department: Expenditure, 1902 – 1903, V-329. 2. BC Government Agent Smithers, Department of Mines ledger books (now in storage). 3. BC Government Lands Title archive Victoria. Second source: The Government Access Tool for Online Retrieval (GATOR). Third source: Conversion to current dollars is a rough calculation. It took one Canadian dollar to buy United States dollar in 1908. $1 in 1908 converts to approximately $27 in 2015 money. $320 ≈ $8,500. Samuel H. Williamson, “Seven Ways to Compute the Relative Value of a U.S. Dollar Amount, 1774 to present,” MeasuringWorth, 2017. accessed April 5, 2017. www.measuringworth.com/ppowerus/. 4. BC Government Lands and Works report 1905/06, pages I 27 to I 30. 5. The Bulkley Valley Pioneer newspaper Volume 1 No. 1, 13…

Do you have an old photograph with a story to tell? Contribute the photograph to British Columbia History magazine’s back page feature. Taking inspiration from Dear Photograph and HistoryPin, we would like to encourage you help bring a photograph of the past to the present. Anyone can contribute a photograph! Please send your photograph of the past in the present to: bcheditor@bchistory.ca and include information on who or what is in the photograph and why it is important to you or your community. It could appear here on the back page.…

J.O. Patenaude Thanks to Ron Welwood for the British Columbia History Summer 2017 article on J.O. Patenaude. The magazine arrived here today. The then and now photos on the back page are lovely. I like the article text and illustrations and the range of research. What I especially like is the explanation of Patenaude’s name on page 17. Ovide and Avila are names in my mother’s Desautels family. I appreciate the explanation that “in Quebec the first name of almost every male was Joseph, so it was customary to use their second name.” My mother’s great uncle Joseph Alfred Payment went through most of his life as Alfred. Your article was worth waiting for. Jacqueline Gresko 88 th  Battalion Hi Andrea, I see your Editor’s piece in the latest…

1. There is some confusion about the date of the first meeting, with some sources recording it as May 10 and others as May 12. Major Matthews’ Early Vancouver states that the first meeting was held at 2 p.m. on May 10 and that a second meeting took place the evening of May 12. (Major James Skitt Matthews, Early Vancouver, Vol. 3 [Vancouver: City of Vancouver, 2011], 190.) 2. Matthews, Early Vancouver, Vol. 3, 189. 3. British Columbia from the Earliest Times to the Present: Biographical, Vol. 3 (Vancouver, Portland, San Francisco, Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1914), 88. In May 1886, T.R. Pearson folded his New Westminster and Vancouver stores into the British Columbia Stationery & Printing Company with partners J.B. Ferguson and D. Robson (Daily Colonist [May 22,…

1. Province of British Columbia, Registration of Death, Reg. No. 1972-09-015410, Tina Shewchuk, 4 November 1972. 2. Province of British Columbia, Registration of Death, Reg. No. 1974-09-010829, Mike Shewchuk, 18 July 1974. 3. $32,000 CDN in 1974 converts to approximately $166,683 CDN in 2017 money. Inflation Calculator, Bank of Canada, accessed April 14, 2017, http://www.bankofcanada.ca/rates/related/inflation-calculator/. 4. City of Vancouver, Application for Permit to Erect, Alter, Repair or Remove a Building #386A issued 13 September 1956. 5. City of Vancouver, Gas Fitting Permit #A72397 issued 5 October 1962. 6. City of Vancouver, Application for Permit to Erect, Alter, Repair or Remove a Building #1415DA issued 20 October 1955. 7. $1,200 CDN in 1955 converts to approximately $11,000 CDN in 2017 money. Inflation Calculator 8. Vancouver and New Westminster City Directory, 1955,…

Our books section this issue is an eclectic one that reminds us of the many ways into our province’s history, the many ways that the telling of stories of the past can frame our experience of the present. Barry Gough writes about landscape and the bricks-and-mortar story of the creation of Victoria’s Uplands. Janet Nicol reaches into other realms as she considers the ghostly inhabitants of some of Victoria’s historic buildings and neighbourhoods, and as she reconsiders the shape of biography itself in a book about Vancouver detective Inspector Vance. The editors of the Nikkei Fishermen’s Reunion project articulate the enduring ties of community carried in the hearts and minds of Japanese-Canadian fishers and their families who lived through the WW II dispersal of their community and its economic assets,…

1. Bob Broadland, personal communication with author. 2. Annon, undated: Let’s Stop – Look – and Learn, the Stop of Interest Markers in British Columbia, Department of Recreation and Conservation, Provincial Parks Branch, Victoria, B.C. (Most likely authored by C.P. Lyons) (Author’s personal files). 3. C.P.Lyons, undated: Some Aspects of Historic Site Marking. No other attribution. (most likely Ministry of Recreation and Conservation, B.C. Parks Branch, Victoria, B.C.) (Author’s personal files). 4. Bob Broadland. 5. David McGill, 101 Stop of Interest Markers in Beautiful British Columbia, David, Agency Press, undated. 6. Ibid.…