Buildings & Structures Archives | Royal Engineer to Reeve: The Life and Times of Philip Jackman

The Grotto Saloon, 1886

The Grotto Saloon, as it appeared in approximately 1886, a few years after it was Jackman’s Beehive Saloon.

Sara Catherine Lehman (née Jackman), on her great-grandfather, Philip Jackman, 1976

Oral history interview conducted by Don Waite, 1976. SL = Sara Lehman DW = Don Waite SL: He was a strict man except to poor families, they would get […]

Government House and the Royal Engineers Camp from the Fraser River, ca. 1862

The Government House (left) was the home of Colonel Moody until the Detachment’s disbandment.

The unveiling of the commemorative cairn for Philip Jackman Park, October 5, 2011

Members of the Jackman family at the unveiling of the cairn across the street from Philip Jackman Park in Aldergrove, BC. The park was renamed to Philip Jackman […]

Church of St. John the Divine, ca. 1960

This church was designed by Reverend William B. Crickmer and built by the Royal Engineers at Derby in 1859. It is the only Derby building from that period […]

The Jackmans’ second house in Aldergrove, ca. 1910

This image of the Jackmans’ second Aldergrove house was published in F. J. Hart & Co.’s promotional real estate booklet titled, “The Apple Lands of Aldergrove,” that was […]

Royal Engineer Muster List

This muster list records Philip Jackman’s Royal Engineer trade as sawyer. As a sawyer, Jackman would saw timber, which would have been instrumental for clearing land for trails, […]

1907 souvenir edition of The Emigrant Soldier’s Gazette and Cape Horn Chronicle

This copy of the gazette acquired by the Langley Centennial Museum belonged to Royal Engineer Thomas Argyle. Argyle became the lighthouse keeper at Race Rocks lighthouse located just […]

Early view of New Westminster, between 1862 and 1866

A view of New Westminster taken from the south shore of the Fraser River.

A sketch of the Derby Townsite by Reverend William Crickmer, ca. 1859

Derby was the original location of the first Fort Langley Hudson’s Bay Company Fort, built in 1827.

The Retreat, ca. 1862

The first saloon in Sapperton, The Retreat, opened in 1861.

The Cariboo Road, 1862: Royal Engineers Push Gold Route through Fraser Canyon

This painting was created by Rex Woods in 1967 as part of a Centennial series called Confederation Life.