Innholdsfortegnelse for 51.2 | Summer 2018 i British Columbia History

Schools Issue Feedback Enjoyed your Spring Edition. My grandfather Iver Fougner was in the first graduating class of the Vancouver Normal School and became the first teacher in the Bella Coola valley. Have a photo somewhere of his first teacher’s desk, it was a huge block of a fir tree. The original school building is still standing in Hagensborg and is now a private residence. Ed Fougner, Qualicum Beach I enjoyed the Spring issue and the great cross section of schools covered. It’s heartening to see that communities continue to utilize their school buildings and they remain an important location for residents and visitors. Good news that Anniedale School will be rescued from the no man’s land it currently sits on and become more accessible when it is relocated to…

In the spring of 1965, I became Plant Superintendent for the Pickle and Canning operation of Nalley’s Fine Foods, Vancouver, BC. I had graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1963 with a Bachelor of Science in Food Science and had been employed at Nalley’s for two years, working my way up from the plant floor. In addition to overseeing the plant operations I became responsible for our cucumber growers with respect to their contracts, seed variety, area planted, and grading. The advent of the small cucumber patches grown by the Chinese growers had coincided nicely with the entry of Nalley’s into the pickle business in the 1930s. Nalley’s Canada Ltd. was established in Canada in 1929 and moved to the site of a former coal distribution operation at…

1. “Well Known City Writer Dies in Spain,” Victoria Daily Times, 15 October 1966, 30. 2. Caro Playfair, “Appreciates Work of B.C. Authoress,” The Daily Colonist, 10 February 1933, 4. 3. “Howard, Hilda (Glynn-Ward),” SFU Digitized Collections, Canada’s Early Women Writers, 1-3. Found at: http://digital.lib.sfu.ca/ceww-917/howard-hilda-glynn-ward 4. John W. Howard household, Cheriton, Kent. Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1881 England Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004., Class: RG11; Piece: 1011; Folio: 35; Page: 30; GSU roll: 1341240. 5. “Soldiers of the First World War (1914-1918).” Record Group 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 4930 - 35. Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa. 6. Jean Barman, The West Beyond The West: A History of British Columbia, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991), 138-141, Table 5 -…

1. Canvey Island is an Island of seven square miles (18 square kilometres) on the south coast of Essex in the Thames Estuary. The Island is below sea level with beaches to the south and a population of 45,000 living behind fourteen miles (22.4 kilometres) of high sea walls. 2. The Byford brothers were members of the Thames Sailing Club. It is the UK’s oldest river sailing club, founded in 1870, and located between Surbiton and Kingston on the Surrey bank of the River 3. Mr. H. Stone was a partner in Yokohama Japan in the voyage of the Sea Queen. He was a member of the Yokohama Yacht Club. 4. Captain J.A. Phillipsen was a Master of the Thermopylae Club in Victoria BC. 5. Harry T. Barnes was the…

British Columbia History is a quarterly magazine chronicling British Columbia’s unique story through the words and images of community writers, archivists, museum professionals, academic historians and more. THEMES British Columbia History publishes one theme issue per year. Spring 2019—Our special issue of 2019 will focus on the law. Historic legal cases, legal rights, lawyers, etc. SUBMISSIONS Submissions to British Columbia History are reviewed three times a year (Winter, Spring, Fall) by the magazine Readers’ Panel, which assists the Editor in selecting articles that are a good fit for the magazine. Our editorial team makes every effort to respond to all submission enquiries; however, our magazine operates with a small part-time staff and it may take some time for us to get back…

1. What is known of candidate Johanson is found in Kaslo’s Kootenaian, as well as the neighbouring Nelson Daily News several days prior to the election, and from her headstone in the Kaslo Cemetery (1870-1959). 2. Kootenay Lake Historical Society Committee. Pioneer Families of Kaslo [1980]: 103. 3. Kootenaian (Kaslo), 4 April 1935 [1936]: 1. 4. Library and Archives Canada. Census of Canada, 1891. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Library and Archives Canada, 2009. http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/1891/Pages/about-census.aspx. Series RG31-C-1. Statistics Canada Fonds. Microfilm reels: T-6290 to T-6427. 5. Kootenay Lake Archives, Vertical Files. 6. The 1930 U.S. Census recorded Zion Lake, Illinois as the residence for the entire Caldwell family. 7. City of Kaslo, Council Minutes, 1919-1932.…

1. Among other sources, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woss 2. “Canfor established Woss in 1947”, North Island Weekender (Campbell River newspaper), November 13, 1999. Later sources mistakenly pin the date at 1948. 3. “Teaching in The Backwoods”, by David Ghent. The Vancouver Sun Magazine Supplement, Sept 10, 1955. 4. Ibid. 5. “Teaching in the Backwoods”, op.cit. 6. Barnett, Tom. “An Englewood Sequel”. BC Historical News, 28:3 (1995), UBC 7. To residents, Woss was referred to interchangeably as “Camp”, “Woss Lake”, “Woss” or “Woss Camp”. 8. Barnett, op.cit. 9. Rudan, Paul. Op.cit. 10. “Canfor established Woss in 1947”, op.cit. 11. Regional District of Mount Waddington. “Woss Lookout Statement of Significance” (2013), http://www.rdmw.bc.ca/media/Woss 12. Martin, A.E.C. The Teacher’s “Concise” Class Record, Revised Edition (published by Clarke + Stuart Co. Ltd. for BC schools). 13. In…

I have compiled a series of short snappers to showcase the bonanza of books that have come across my desk in recent months. From a couple of big, beautiful coffee table books, to a memoir of a lumberman and the chronicles of a union local, to a clutch of books about institutional birthdays, quinquagenaries centennials, and sesquicentennials, one book exploring Canada’s slow-growing excitement as it warmed up to its own 100th birthday party in 1967, these books draw from the vibrant work of BC authors and publishers. K. Jane Watt It Can Be Done: An Ordinary Man’s Extraordinary Success. By Chick Stewart with Michele Carter (Madeira Park: Harbour, 2017) $32.95 This memoir carries the bold voice of its subject as he traverses his memories, from his early days in Fort…

It is interesting to me that the recent history is harder to find. For this issue, I scoured the local archives looking for an image of the Nalley’s plant to no avail. I also poked around looking for images of Nalley’s pickle jars in local collections and had no luck. One archivist I contacted who shall remain nameless said she had a photo “somewhere (that being the optimum word) at home from Knight Street bridge which shows the huge open tanks where they brined their pickles.” Likely there are other images in other people’s basements and closets that would be perfect for this issue of the magazine. It speaks to me that we need to be encouraging people to donate their photos and objects from the 1960s, 1970s, and from…

In the Victoria Daily Times of October 15, 1966, it was noted that a “well known” city writer had died in Madrid, Spain.1 In 1964 Mrs. Hilda Howard had left her Victoria residence at 217 Cook Street to live in England. In 1965 she moved again to Spain where she developed a “serious illness.” The obituary noted her published poetry and travel writing about British Columbia under her pen name Hilda Glynn-Ward. Glynn-Ward was an early and important British Columbia travel writer, as well as poet, who tried to popularize the natural beauty of the wilderness and the development of the landscape as a Pacific paradise for Anglo-white settlers. Her travel writing and poetry about early twentieth century British Columbia combined her romantic passion for the province’s landscapes and its…

1867 British North America Act entrenches women's exclusion from the vote 1873 Female property owners in BC gain right to vote in municipal elections 1917 The Wartime Elections Act extended the federal vote to women in the armed forces and female relatives of military men The Provincial Elections Act is amended - some women in BC are eligible to vote and run for provincial office 1918 In January, Mary Ellen Smith became the first woman elected to the BC Legislative Assembly Two women are elected to municipal city council in Kaslo, BC 1918 In 1918, the right to vote federally was extended to include most women property owners 1947 Chinese-Canadian people regained their provincial voting rights South Asian people regained their provincial voting rights 1949 First Nations people were awarded…

Known as the “Royal family of Hockey,” Lester and Frank Patrick began their hockey careers playing collegiately while attending McGill University in Montreal. Lester turned professional with the Montreal Wanderers and eventually was traded to the Renfrew Creamery Kings of the National Hockey Association for the, then, unheard of amount of $2,000, establishing him as a great star. The Patrick family moved to Victoria in 1911, and using their lumber baron father Joe’s wealth they built the Pacific Coast Professional Hockey League. Over the years they had teams in Victoria, Vancouver, New Westminster, Seattle, Spokane, and Portland. The brothers sold their interests to the National Hockey after the 1926 season and Lester went to New York to help develop the New York rangers. He is noted as the oldest goalkeeper,…