Looking Back: Basketball
June 26, 2019 Basketball fever has gripped the country thanks to the Raptor’s historic NBA championship win. With such a big event like this, at … Read More
Looking Back: Days With No Doctor
April 3, 2019 In the early days of Maple Ridge, after the first settlers had laid claim, the railroad came through, business like Fuller Watson … Read More
Looking Back: Suffrage in a Corset
October 10, 2018 As of 2018 it has been 100 years since (most) Canadian women got the right to vote, bringing to fruition the lifetimes … Read More
The Pirate Kirkconnell
In The Province on June 30th, 1909, it was reported that Colonel Edward Shannon Kirkconnell, a farmer in Whonnock, was wanted in New York City on a … Read More
The Finns of Webster’s Corners
The early Finnish population in Webster’s Corners arrived not from Finland, but from Malcolm Island in the straits between northern Vancouver Island and the BC mainland. … Read More
Frenchy Rieboldt
When Alfred Rieboldt arrived in Haney in 1960, he was already more than 60 years old. He had moved here from Port Coquitlam and Deep … Read More
Pete Telosky’s Stadium — Our “Field of Dreams”
Pete Telosky was a baseball player of some renown in the Dewdney League and beyond. He had actually earned a living playing baseball in the … Read More
Having Fun
Settlers in this region faced an unyielding mountain of work — first to clear the land and then to make it productive. Despite that, no … Read More
Making a Home
People coming to a frontier area face enormous obstacles, particularly if they are already a family. When Maple Ridge was incorporated in 1874, there were … Read More
Road Construction
In order to grow from scattered riverbank settlements to a full functioning community, it was necessary to build roads. With no dedicated labour force, it … Read More