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

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.
Royal Engineer Muster List

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, […]
Dr. John Vernon Seddall of the Royal Engineers, ca. 1860

Dr. John Vernon Seddall of the Royal Engineers, ca. 1860

Seddall was the assistant staff surgeon for the Columbia Detachment who had previously served in the Crimean War. Seddall joined the detachment band while on the Thames City […]
The Cork Daily Reporter on the Columbia Detachment

The Cork Daily Reporter on the Columbia Detachment

Updates on the Columbia Detachment of Royal Engineers were in multiple “Military and Naval” sections throughout the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. This clipping from September […]
Captain Henry Reynolds Luard, ca. 1860

Captain Henry Reynolds Luard, ca. 1860

Luard was Jackman’s Captain onboard the Thames City, where he was fondly nicknamed “Old Scrooge” due to the monocle he wore, and because he read the works of […]
Colonel Richard Clement Moody

Colonel Richard Clement Moody

Colonel Richard Clement Moody attended the Royal Military Academy before enlisting in the Royal Engineers, and was later appointed Governor of the Falkland Islands from 1841 to 1849. […]
Captain James Marshall Grant

Captain James Marshall Grant

A reproduction of an oil painting of Captain James Marshall Grant in the anniversary edition of The Emigrant Soldiers’ Gazette and Cape Horn Chronicle. The painting was done […]
The Cariboo Road, 1862: Royal Engineers Push Gold Route through Fraser Canyon

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.
The last of the Royal Engineers at the 1909 luncheon

The last of the Royal Engineers at the 1909 luncheon

The photograph shows (from left to right) in the back row: Premier Richard McBride, Judge F.W. Howay, Mayor W.H. Keary (infant passenger on Royal Engineer ship), Henry Bruce, […]
Royal Engineer Recruitment Muster List

Royal Engineer Recruitment Muster List

A recruitment list that documents Philip Jackman’s enlistment into the Royal Engineers. It notes that Jackman was recruited in Devonport on November 6, 1856.