Military Archives | Royal Engineer to Reeve: The Life and Times of Philip Jackman

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 […]

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.