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diminished the Church was taken down river to Port Hammond in 1882
where it has been in use ever since, and stands, shaded by the maple,
elm and pine trees planted years ago. Pitt Meadows was settled in 1874
by engineers whose land was a reward for service, has had since World
War II an interesting settlement project, sponsored by the Canadian
Government and the Government of the Netherlands. A large tract of
land is being reclaimed under supervision of Netherland’s engineers. Known
as “Pitt Polder” this area will be settled by immigrants from Netherlands.

West of the Pitt River are the communities of Port Coquitlam,
Burquitlam and Burnaby. ‘The North Road, built by Royal Engineers
(1859) passes through this area, Coquitlam’s Indian name of ‘“‘Coguitlam”
means “Little red Salmon” ‘These communities, settled years ago by
pioneers whose descendants are still living here, are being slowly invaded
by the overflow from the Coastal cities. These were farming communities
and here and there an old farm home stands in its orchard while nearby
modern dwellings show the encroachment of suburbanity. Port Moody on
Burrard Inlet dates its history from Captain Vancouver’s visit to the Inlet
in 1792. Succeeding v.i.p.’s were Captain Geo. H. Richards in 1859 with
survey ship “H.M.S. Plumper’, Colonel Moody, Royal Engineers, 1860,
Lord Strathcona on the first transcontinental train, 1885, and the first
tea ship “W. B. Flint” 1886. In harbor also at that time the British Ship
“New York” loaded with railroad iron. First newspaper published on
Burard Inlet “Port Moody Gazette” 1885.

Vancouver is the home of our only urban Institute, Point Grey,
organized when the Point Grey area was a wooded, distant suburb
of the city, and they are proud of the part some of their early
members played in the organization which led to the building of the
Crippled Children’s Hospital in Vancouver, 1927. Out along the North
shore of Burrard Inlet to Howe Sound we come to Gibson’s Landing on
the Southern slope of the Sechelt peninsula. This is the home of the
Howe Sound Women’s Institute. First settlers came here by boat in 1886
and descendants of those settlers are still taking an active part in com-
munity life. Agriculture and a little fishing occupy the settlers, logging
has been fairly extensive along this Coast, but the settlement here is now
largely of retired people who come from near and far to this sunny slope
to spend their quiet years by the sea. Brackendale, seven miles inland
from Squamish at the head of Howe Sound, is reached by road and by
Pacific Great Eastern Railway, as is Pemberton, fifty-seven miles from
tide-water. The first Institute here was at Squamish, later discontinued
and revived at Brackendale. ‘The interests of the two communities are
interwoven and logging, some agriculture, and the -Pacific Great Eastern
shops and offices provide revenue at this time. Here is a gateway to the
mountain wonderland of Garibaldi Park, Diamond Head Chalet, reached
from Squamish, provides ski-ing many months in the year. Haney, at the
southern end of Garibaldi Park is almost due south of Pemberton which
lies just off the northern boundary of the Park. First settlers in Bracken-
dale arrived by dug-out canoe from Vancouver in 1889 and that was the