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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

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

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

The “Tynemouth” at San Francisco

A clipping from the September 17, 1862 issue of The British Colonist printed in Victoria, British Columbia. The article shows the excitement and nervousness of the men awaiting […]

Esquimalt, 1862

Watercolour painting of ships in the Esquimalt Harbour created by Richard Frederick Britten.

Full length studio portrait of Bishop George Hills

Studio portrait photograph of Bishop George Hills likely taken in the 1870s. Bishop Hills was selected in 1859 to be the first bishop of Columbia and arrived in […]

The officers of the Ancient Order of Foresters, 1882-1883

Philip Jackman is listed as being a “S.C.R.” or Sub-chief Ranger in the British Columbia directory for the years 1882-1883.

Voters’ List for New Westminster City

A “List of persons entitled to vote in the Electoral District of New Westminster City” was published by the British Columbia Legislative Assembly in 1876.

The Shortreed’s Store, ca. 1895

Robert Shortreed homesteaded and opened his store on the corner of what was then called Yale and County Line Roads, (now Fraser Highway and 264th Street). The Shortreed […]

Philip Jackman Jr. and his spouse, Anna Caroline Jackman (née Wadel), ca. 1903

A studio portrait of Philip Jr. and Anna Jackman. Philip Jr. was the Aldergrove postmaster working out of his father’s store from 1887 to 1890 and again later […]

Portrait of Philip Jackman, ca. 1895

A copy of this picture hangs in the Mayor’s Office at the Township of Langley’s Civic Facility with photos of Langley’s mayors and reeves.

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, […]