From the "Coquitlam Star" May 1912

At one time when cutting on the north shore, a log was found containing a portion of a large old fashioned shell (cannon-ball). Another time a shell was discovered in green cedar which had grown all around it. The former relic is preserved in the office of the Emerson Lumber Company. The shot is thought to have been fired by the Royal Engineers during shooting practice. Though one would fain having a more romantic story if one can prove it was from the shrieking shrapnel of sanguinary battle between the Siwash and a Spanish Privateer in search of black ivory or buried treasure, it would certainly be an ornament to an otherwise prosaic narrative.

From an article captioned "The History of the Settlement of Port Moody and its growth"