Maillot PeoPeoh: Maple Ridge’s First non-Indigenous settler
By Gunter Rebele Maple Ridge will commemorate the 150th anniversary of its incorporation in February 2024. The incorporation took place 14 years after the pre-emption … Read More
The Haney Man and the Tsar’s Daughter
Shortly after the end of the First World War, the Russian Bolsheviks announced the death of Tsar Nicolas Romanov and his family, bringing an … Read More
Boat Crash in Stave Lake
In the mid-20th century, Stave Lake was a popular logging site for the Abernethy and Lougheed Logging Company. Loggers would take their felled logs to … Read More
Looking Back: Memorial Peace Park
Let’s go on an adventure. As most of us are not going on physical adventures at the moment we are going to use our imaginations, … Read More
Looking Back – The Origins of the Haney Nokai in a Clash of Cultures
In 2006, William Hashizume translated a manuscript from the Haney Nokai covering the period from 1919 to the late 1930’s. Written by Yasutaro Yamaga, it … Read More
Looking Back: Class of ’54
In June of 1953, the Grade 11 class at Maple Ridge Junior-Senior High School decorated the hall for the Grade 12 graduation ceremonies. The morning … Read More
Port Hammond’s Presbyterian Women
The first Presbyterian Church in Port Hammond was built in 1910. The congregation had been meeting for some time in a local hall and it … Read More
Looking Back: The Mysterious Death of Daniel Haney
Daniel Thomas Haney was the third child and second son of Thomas Haney and his wife Anne. Unlike his older brother Frank, Daniel chose to … Read More
Looking Back: Maple Ridge Hospital Auxillary at 50
Five years before the Maple Ridge Hospital opened its doors in 1958, a dedicated group of women was eagerly at work raising money to make … Read More
Western Canada Power Company Railway
In 1910 the Western Canada Power Company was authorized to build a railway line from its works on the Stave River, to a point on … Read More