Looking Back: Quarantine!
Most people think that communities like Maple Ridge incorporated in the 1870’s to get themselves identified as a unit that could bargain with senior governments … 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
Mary Florence Haney Death Portrait
Mary Florence was the eldest child of Thomas and Anne Haney and the only one to have been born in Paris, Ontario. At the age … Read More
James Hawley Family
James Hawley was born in 1877 in Ingonish, Nova Scotia, and came to Haney in 1910. Elizabeth ‘Lizzie’ Mary Hawley (nee Haney) was born on … Read More
Leggatt Family
Father Alexander Leggatt had been a telegraph operator in Ontario, but became a barber when he moved to Vancouver in 1898. He moved around a … Read More
Samuel Edge Family
Samuel Ephraim Edge was born circa 1859 in Grey County, Ontario, to William and Harriet Edge. He married Mary Eliza Dawson in 1888. Mary was … Read More
Joseph Edgar Trethewey Family
The Trethewey family first arrived in B.C. in 1870, with members of the family involved in enterprises in Mission, Matsqui, Abbotsford and Maple Ridge. Joseph … Read More
John Blaney Family
John Blaney was born in Lanark, Scotland, in 1855. He emigrated to Pittsburgh, where he worked as a gardener and got married. He moved to … Read More
George Blackstock Family
George Blackstock, brother of Robert Blackstock of Hammond, was born in 1842, and was also a resident of Maple Ridge. George arrived in 1888 as … Read More