Looking Back: Birth of the Haunted House
With Halloween upon us again we at the Museum always like to reflect on our scary, spooky, and perhaps even haunted past. While we don’t … 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
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 Hudson’s Bay Men
Two men — Samuel Robertson and John McIver — vie for the honour of being the first non-native settler in the district. It seems most … Read More
Fort Langley Ties
Fort Langley was the source of all of our earliest non-native settlers. From the Kanakas who rode the Hudson’s Bay Company ships seeking adventure to … Read More
Sounding the Depths
The earliest maps of the lower Fraser River area quite rightly focused on the river itself. That was the only transportation route so its bends, … Read More
A Man’s World
The early European settlement days were characterized by a surplus of men. Whether they were Fort employees, sailors, or gold seekers, the new arrivals were … 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
From District to City
What does it mean to become the City of Maple Ridge? In British Columbia, municipalities are classified at the time of incorporation into basic size … Read More