Matsqui (B.C.)

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Alfred Hawkins interview

CALL NUMBER: T0712:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-04-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Hawkins recounts the arrival of his father [Albert Hawkins] in BC with the Royal Engineers in 1859; settlement in Matsqui with a crown and military grant; stories about Judge Begbie; the family farm; other incidents; wild animals; early settlers C.B. Sword, Maclure, Lehman, McCullum, Cruickshank, Nicholson and Merryfield; his father's adventures; the 1894 flood; the Maclure family.; TRACK 2: Mr. Hawkins continues with his recollections of the Maclure family; other settlers; Matsqui dykes and dams; floods; settlement of Matsqui; the BC Electric Railway; descriptions and stories; about the sternwheelers on the river; anecdotes about the post office.

CALL NUMBER: T0712:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-04-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Hawkins continues with stories about local characters, socials, life on the farm, picnics, amateur theatricals; and an anecdote about Vancouver Island. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Alma Cyr interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Cyr, nee Lagace, recounts her father's arrival in Hatzic Prairie from Quebec; the family homestead; Mrs. Thompson; Italian settlers; her family traveling through the Rockies in a covered wagon; Captain Stanley Thompson; Mrs. Cyr's father; her mother; dances; picnics; schooling; local residents; Father Fouquier; Durier; Boucher; the Lagace family. TRACK 2: Mrs. Cyr continues with her recollections about her family; her mother; her husband, Zoel Cyr; his logging work at Stave Lake; the Matsqui Hotel; ranching in the Dewdney area; family incidents.

Catherine Maclure interview

CALL NUMBER: T0715:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Catherine Maclure, daughter of Samuel Maclure, talks about her early life in Victoria; the Maclure family; grandfather Maclure; family farm in Matsqui; grandmother Maclure; childhood re;collections; Abbotsford and the family telegraph operators. TRACK 2: Miss Maclure continues her recollections of the Maclure family; family telegraph operators in various locations; Samuel Maclure';s education; his art and architecture; house designs in Victoria; his architectural partners, Cecil Fox, Ross Lott; Mrs. Samuel Maclure; her watercolours of Songhees Indians; her marriage; Margaret Simpson; Mrs. Samuel Maclure; the MacLeod family; Samuel Maclure's interests; houses and offices he designed.

CALL NUMBER: T0715:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Maclure, daughter of Samuel Maclure, talks about the Carr family and Emily Carr; British immigrants; Rudyard Kipling's visit; the Royal Navy; Sir Clive Phillips-Wolley; Warburton Pike; Victoria at the turn of the century; and the Chinese gardens in Fairfield. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Constance Cruikshank interview

CALL NUMBER: T0436:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Cruickshank recounts the arrival of the John Maclure family at Matsqui, 1868; Maclure family stories and incidents; C.B. Sword; the dyke at Matsqui; other settlers; Maclure family telegraph work; Sam Maclure; Sarah Maclure; Clayburn Brickworks; Maclure family stories. TRACK 2: Miss Cruickshank continues with her recollections of the Maclure family and Matsqui; other settlers; Indians; the Cruickshank family; subdivision and development; geography of the area; social life; the Women's Institute; the Maple Grove Dairy Company; remittance men; transportation; railways; roads; and; Abbotsford.

CALL NUMBER: T0436:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Cruickshank discusses the naming of Abbotsford; the Purver family; doctors; lumbering at Abbotsford; the Hartnell family; lumber mills; railways; social life; BC Electric; and settlers. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Cornelius Kelleher interview

The item is a recorded interview with Mr. Cornelius "Corny" Kelleher. Tape 1: Kelleher recalls his father, Mortimer Kelleher, Mortimer's early days in British Columbia, and his settlement in Mission City in 1868. He speaks about the mills in Mission City; the Oblates of Mary Immaculate Mission [OMI] settlement of the mission in 1862; First Nations people at the mission; construction and location of the mission buildings; the Sisters of St. Ann convent; his father's work for the mission; the Kelleher family farm; Passmore family; other settlers in the Mission area; childhood at Mission school, surveying for the CPR in 1882; clearing and construction for the CPR; first passenger trains in 1886; steamboats.

Tape 2: Mr. Kelleher discusses steamboat service; construction and maintenance of the dikes at Matsqui Prairie; Matsqui Land Company; the Maclure family; early settlers in Matsqui; the Purver family, discusses farming incidents; naming Abbotsford; CPR link to the U.S.; Huntington; Mission City; roads, railways; [period of silence on tape]; remittance men; Bellevue Hotel, Matsqui Hotel; railway bridge; shipping fish; sturgeon fishing; First Nations methods of fishing.

Tape 3: Mr. Kelleher continues with his recollections of fishing on the Fraser River; salmon fishing; Indigenous place names; other place names; Joe DeRoche; childhood adventures; First Nations stories about ;Hatzic Island; First Nations hunting methods and doctors; Sam McDonald and Frank Wade, Maclure, "Supple Jack" from the Matsqui reserve; Mount Baker; Jim Trethewey and family; ;saw and grist mills; description of the O.M.I. Mission; early settlers; subdivision of lots in Mission City; Riverside; C.B. Sword.;

Tape 4: Mr. Kelleher talks about Mr. Barnes, Mr. Sword, the Matsqui dike and other incidents.

Diary and other material

Diary, 1874-1880 [typescript available]; letter from his brother, Tottenham, England, 1879, containing family and local news; I.O.O.F. receipts, 1871 and 1872; pay book, 1861-1863 and discharge certificate, 1863, Royal Engineers; specification for piers at Hastings sawmill, bridge at Matsqui, house at Sapperton.

Flood relief

The item is a video copy of a documentary film which shows the Fraser River flood of May-June 1948, and the emergency relief operations of the Canadian Red Cross. Includes: aerial views of Coast Mountains, flood area, flooded farms and communities; flood scenes at Mission, Hatzic, Matsqui and elsewhere; military personnel and amphibious vehicles at work; construction of dikes; Red Cross personnel; military aircraft involved.

[Fraser Valley] : [footage and out-takes]

Footage. Mainly shows commercial and tourist activities in the middle and upper Fraser Valley. Shots include: a small freighter on the Fraser River; Brackman-Ker Milling Company (New Westminster); aerial view of an urban area; Johnston Bros. & Byrnell Freight Lines (Chilliwack); "Valley Celery" packing plant; Harrison Lake tourists and resorts; lake barges; a residential street; dairy cattle; berry picking and packing (Hatzic, B.C.); a railway platform; and the Bungalow Garage and Cafe in Matsqui.

Herb Miller interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Miller recalls his family's arrival and settlement on Nicomen Island in1887, and later move to Matsqui in 1919. The family farm on Nicomen Island; development and settlement; bridges, roads; clearing land, farming, dairy farming; life on Nicomen Island; the McBride government; island transportation. TRACK 2: Mr. Miller continues with a discussion about life on Nicomen Island; rail;roads on the island, other residents; Sam Macdonald; steamboats; lumbering; Colonel Jaggers, Dr. Stuart, Indians, local characters, the magistrate and Judge Begbie.

Joe Louie interview

CALL NUMBER: T0437:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967-01-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Louie speaks about Indian languages of the Fraser Valley; legends about drought and Cultus Lake; Indian religions and values; Indian boundaries respecting land, hunting, and fishing, and; the preservation and respect of natural resources. TRACK 2: Mr. Louie continues to speak about respect for life and beliefs associated with hunting; the Indians' quality of respect that was the sam;e as prayer; respect for elders; elders teaching of skills; Indian life; skills; longhouses; trails in the Abbotsford area; Indian names in the area; and the treatment of Indians by white men.

CALL NUMBER: T0437:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967-01-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Louie discusses Indian-white relations; chiefs in his family; the Matsqui settlers' relationships with Indians; education; Coqualeetza School; Indians in the work force; Mount Baker; BC Electric; East Indian workers; conditions of Indians in Washington State; and his father, Chief Joe Kelly. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Living memory : Matsqui Prairie

SUMMARY: "Matsqui", the eighth program, features people of the Prairie and the hills around. Alf Hawkins recalls the flood of 1894, and Constance Cruickshank tells the story of John Maclure and his family, who settled in the Matsqui area in 1868.

The recording is incomplete.

Living memory : The way in

SUMMARY: "The Way In", the first episode in the series, describes the trails, roads and rivers used by the first settlers. The voices heard are: Jim Kipp, Leon Ladner, Constance Cruickshank, and Bert Williams.

New Westminster District appraisals of reverted land

  • GR-2619
  • Series
  • 1931-1932

The series consists of appraisal reports of reverted lands from the New Westminster land district, 1931 to 1932. These reports are in two volumes and are divided into arbitrary land areas labeled "F", "E", "G", and "H". Reports are arranged numerically by report number. Information may include assessment district, land registry office, legal description, date of forfeiture, plan number, acreage, suitability, improvements, soil, water supply, irrigation or diking, accessibility, nearest settlement or Post Office, nearest school, topography, and assessed and appraised value. The report usually includes a coloured sketch map of the property. The information is indexed by District Lot number to report number.

British Columbia. Dept. of Lands

New Westminster Land District forfeiture certificates

  • GR-2617
  • Series
  • 1915-1957

This series consists of New Westminster Land District forfeiture certificates of lands reverted to the Crown from 1915-1957. Records relate to the Coquitlam, Maple Ridge, Pitt Meadows and Matsqui Dyking Districts. The certificates are arranged chronologically without regard to Dyking District. Information may include the legal description of the land, the plan number, the date it was subject to forfeiture, the date of the end of the period of grace, and the date of forfeiture. Certificates are indexed alphabetically by owners name, and numerically by plan to folio numbers.

Coquitlam Dyking District lies within the limits of the City of Port Coquitlam, and the Municipality of Coquitlam.

Pitt Meadows No.2 Dyking District lies within the defined boundaries of the Municipality of Pitt Meadows, and is situated 1 1/2 miles north of the Dewdney Trunk Road at the confluence of the Pitt and Alouette Rivers.

Maple RIdge Dyking District lies within the boundaries of the Municipalities of Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows, including the Townsite of Hammond.

British Columbia. Dept. of Lands

Willena Reid interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Reid recounts her parents coming to the Matsqui area about 1885; the family farm; her father [Dan Nicholson]; the homestead; clearing land; quilting bees; clearing land; mosquitoes; dances; food; grist mills; meals; Christmastime; schooling; her mother's life on the homestead; the McCallum family; spinning wool. TRACK 2: Mrs. Reid continues with her discussion about clothing; transportation; mail delivery, Mount Lehman; electricity; local characters; pranks; chivarees; peddlers; BC Electric; social life; ministers and churches; Dr. Dunn; settlers.