Death Portraits
Death Portraits A common question both the Maple Ridge Museum and Haney House Museum receive especially around this time of year is: “Are the houses … Read More
Greeting Cards
Greeting Cards The greeting cards we exchange at Christmas or New Year’s and which are so much a part of our holiday traditions have their … Read More
The Long Decade: 1930-1939
The 1920s had been a decade of growth in Maple Ridge. The footprint of agriculture was expanded as developer’s reclaimed low-lying land with dykes and … Read More
The Lillooet Trail
In the 1870s, the growth of ranching on the middle Fraser and Lillooet rivers was stymied by a lack of access to the most important … Read More
The Commons: Reflecting on Cooperative Living Settlements
What were Maple Ridge’s two cooperative settlements? Ruskin 1896c – “Canadian Co-operative Society” enters four acres of Twigg land at confluence of Stave and Fraser … Read More
The End of Big Logging
1926 began with promise for the sons of Mossom Martin Boyd. Gardiner, Laurie, and Mossom deGrassi had inherited their father’s logging business and transformed it … Read More
On This Day… June 18, 1910
On this day, June 18, in 1910, you too could have “A Happy Family on a Whonnock Farm”. Just call Rogers and Black, real estate … Read More
Relief Work During the Depression
It was a bad fall in Maple Ridge in 1929. The Abernethy and Lougheed Logging Company, local pride and powerhouse, had tumbled into insolvency as … Read More
This Week in 1931
LOCAL DOCTOR CLEARED OF CHARGES IN DEATH OF DEPRESSION-ERA VAGRANT This week in 1931, Dr. Francis Joseph Buckley, of Haney, was cleared of the charge … Read More
Kanaka Creek Park
Kanaka Creek is a small river that enters the Fraser in Albion. It descends from Blue Mountain through a series of forested ravines until it … Read More