Aldergrove (B.C.)

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Jessie Boston interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Boston recounts her parents arrival in Milner; they later homesteaded in Aldergrove in 1887; early settlers; pioneer life; the farm; mail service; mills; the Home Improvement Company; churches; Reverend Dunn; the first school; Aldergrove; logging; the Great Northern Railway; the BC Electric Railway; dairy farming; schooling; family life; bus service to New Westminster; Goodman Hamray; peddlers; Richmond A. Payne. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Sarah Lehman interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Lehman talks about her grandparents at Aldergrove; her grandfather, Philip Jackman, came out with the Royal Engineers in 1859; he settled and had a store at Aldergrove after various jobs. Mrs. Lehman recalls early Aldergrove; customs; horses; the beginnings of Aldergrove; the railway; development; naming the town; the hotel; sawmills; the town site; the Cottle family; churches; the blacksmith shop; incidents with horses; her father's farm. [TRACK 2: blank.]