Delta Heritage Passport - The Corporation of Delta

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PA S S
VOLUME I
Delta Street, Ladner
ca. 1912
1
Annieville
2
Annieville Cannery
3
Sunbury
4
Kennedy Trail
5
Mackie Park
6
St. Stephen’s Church
7
Butler’s Corner
8
East Delta Oyster Plant
9
St. David’s Anglican Church
10
Early First Nation Settlement
11
Tsawwassen First Nation
12
Harbour Park & Swenson Trail
13
Port Guichon
14
Homer Stevens Park
15
Westham Island
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Ladner Chinatown
17
Ladner’s Landing
18
W.H. Ladner House
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Kirkland Park
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Plaques & Interpretive Signs
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learn why it is historically significant to Delta.
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Delta
Commission invites you to visit each location and
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a plaque or sign. The Delta Heritage Advisory
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Each site identified in this passport is marked with
Delta
Using this Passport
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For further information
please contact the
Community Planning &
Development Department
Delta Municipal Hall
(Delta Museum and Archives after 1969)
ca. 1914
The Corporation of Delta
4500 Clarence Taylor Cres
Delta, British Columbia
V4K 3E2
4858 Delta Street
Delta, British Columbia
V4K 2T8
Delta Museum and Archives
TELEPHONE
TELEPHONE
604.946.3380
604.946.9322
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PA S S
HISTORIC
SITES
IN DELTA
VOLUME I
Plaques & Interpretive Signs
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EMAIL
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WEB
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Photos courtesy of the
Delta Museum & Archives
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Delta Museum
NO
108 ST
celebrating the rich and
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Tilbury
Island
reaching back to the earliest
days of British Columbia and
Early First Nation Settlement
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Tsawwassen First Nation
12
Harbour Park & Swensen Trail
13
Port Guichon
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Homer Stevens Park
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Westham Island
16
Ladner Chinatown
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Ladner’s Landing
W.H. Ladner House
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Kirkland Park
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Cover photos:
• "Goodfellows" fishing camp on Boundary Bay, ca. 1895
• Unloading fish at the Delta Cannery, ca. 1880
• Hauling shingle blocks to Thompson Mill, North Delta, ca. 1910
• Delta farmers plowing match, 1928
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Delta’s official Historic Sites.
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in a series of “passports” to
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the Delta Heritage Advisory
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John Oliver Farmhouse, 1902
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Annieville
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11040 River Road, Delta, BC
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HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
Trinity Lutheran Church,
dedicated May 22, 1910,
overlooks the historic fishing
village of Annieville. Part of the
message placed in the corner
stone reads: “Remember the
promise you gave on the day of
your Confirmation, back home
in the unforgettable Norway.”
This building became the new
home for the congregation after
the church at Norum Point was
demolished, making way for the
new Great Northern Railway
(GNR).
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Kirkland Park
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Annieville
Cannery
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Kirklan
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d House
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Gunderson Road, Delta, BC
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
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44 Ave
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River
Annieville Cannery, ca. 1905
The Annieville fishing camp sign
marks the site of Peter Birrell’s
cannery, which he built in the
1890s. Annieville Cannery
operated into the 1940s. The
above photo was taken circa
1905, a few years before the
Great Nothern Railway (GNR)
was built through Annieville on
the old River Road grade.
Gunderson Slough formed later,
as a result of growing industrial
activity along the river.
4026 Arthur Drive, Delta, BC
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
The Kirkland family were
early pioneers in Delta and were
active in the economic, social and
political life of the municipality
as early as the 1870s. This large
family home was constructed in
1911 for William and Edna
Kirkland and their six children on
their farm called Hawthorne
Grove. Volunteers of the Kirkland
House Foundation are restoring
it for public use.
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Sunbury
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W.H. Ladner
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W.H. Ladner House, ca. 1925
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4661 - 51 Street, Delta, BC
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
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The plaque tells us that we should
see a house in front of us;
however, the plaque was erected
one year before the historic
William Ladner house burned
down, likely the result of arson.
The house, Ladner’s third home,
was built in 1882. Paul Ladner,
his son, planted an orchard of
pear and holly trees on the farm
surrounding the home. We enjoy
these same trees to this day.
NORTH
10409 Dunlop Road, Delta, BC
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
Sunbury, before World War II,
was a mixed ethnic
neighbourhood of largely
Japanese and Scandinavian
fishermen living along River Road
between North Delta Heights
and Tilbury Island. The Glenrose
and St. Mungo Canneries were
major employers. The plaque is
located at Sunbury Hall, which
was originally located on Centre
Street at River Road.
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Ladner’s Landing
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Kennedy Trail
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James and Caroline Kennedy, 1854
Ladner’s Landing, ca. 1900
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James Kennedy cut the
settlement trail in 1861 from
the Brownsville Wharf on the
Fraser River to pasture land at
Mud Bay. The contract for the
14.5 km (9 mi) road specified
that it be 3 m (10 ft) wide, “all
stumps to be grubbed out or
cut down level with the ground
surface”, marshy spots
corduroyed and bridges “to be
of round poles”. Imagine
standing at this site when it was
NORTH
Gibson Elementary School
11451 - 90 Ave, Delta, BC
a tall, thick forest of Douglas Fir,
48 Ave
NORTH
Southwest
corner of
Chisholm St
and Elliot St
Spruce and Hemlock and facing
this task with only hand saws
and axes!
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
l, ca.
Hote
Delta
1913
The plaque and sign are on the
site of the former Delta Hotel.
The Delta Hotel greeted visitors,
salesmen and new settlers
disembarking at Ladner’s wharf
from the 1880s until 1923, when
the hotel burned down. The
wharf was built in 1875 and this
post office stop became
a town in the 1880s
when Donald
Chisholm purchased
and surveyed the
site. The street still
carries the
Chisholm name.
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store
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47 Ave
110 S
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108 St
48B St
47A St
47A Ave
82 Ave
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Interpretive sign at Machie Park
Ge
La
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80 Ave
79A Ave
NORTH
1950
Pathway to
water from
48 Ave/47A St
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
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109B St
Ladner Chinatown, ca. 1955
Urban growth has completely
altered the landscape at the west
end of 48th Avenue (Westham
Street). It would be impossible,
without photographs and old
maps, to tell that Ladner’s once
thriving Chinatown lined the
dyke here in the late 1800s. After
much of Chinatown burned in
1929, Chung Chuck
bought land inside the
dyke for his potato field.
The field and dyke are
now covered by a
condominium and
marina complex.
Mackie Park
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Ladner
Chinatown
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NORTH
10900 - 82 Ave, Delta, BC
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
Mackie Park heralds the
accomplishments of one of
North Delta’s pioneer families.
The sign at the park tells the
story of George Mackie, Sr. who
arrived in British Columbia in
1888 and found work in sawmills
and fishing. Like many early
immigrants, George saw
opportunity in his adopted land.
His vision of “Steel City”, a
planned industrial town in the
Sunbury area, was a grand
scheme that was never realized.
The Mackie family, however,
would go on to create other
successes in Delta.
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Westham Island
PO
St. Stephen’s
Church
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9696 Ladner Trunk Road, Delta, BC
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
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Trunk Road streetscape, ca. 1935
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The plaque salutes
the enterprise of
the people of East
Delta. They provided their
community with services centred
in this area, among them St.
Stephen’s Church (1891), East
Delta School (1888), and East
Delta Community Hall (1930).
The East Delta farmers also built
the first municipal dyke on
Boundary Bay in 1892.
Ket
tle
Rd
NORTH
3317 Westham Island Road, Delta, BC
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
Ever since the first farmers and
fisher folk settled here in the
1870s, Westham Island residents
have maintained pride in their
separate identity. Officially
opened in March 1910 with a
lavish banquet, the Westham
Island Bridge ended the
residents’ isolation. Today,
visitors still cross this bridge to
see the Reifel Bird Sanctuary
and to buy produce from the
local farms.
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Butler’s Corner
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Members of the Martinolich, Bussanich &
Radoslovich families, boat building and fishing
families of Port Guichon, ca. 1913
Delta
Homer Stevens
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Photos of Butler’s Store, ca. 1925
44B
Ave
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Ladn
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Trun
Rd
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This modest park complements
the distinct character of the Port
Guichon neighborhood in which
Homer Stevens grew up. Homer,
and his father Nick Stevens,
championed the rights of
working people and the union
movement that gave voice to
their aspirations. Commercial
fishing continues to this day
along the dyke opposite the
park. Visitors can still see the
remnants of the original fishing
wharves and net lofts that
belonged to the fishing and boat
building families of Port
Guichon.
NORTH
Stevens Park,
4440 River Rd West, Delta, BC
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
NORTH
9581 Ladner Trunk Road, Delta, BC
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
The tiny village of East Delta,
consisting of a store, a
blacksmith shop and several
small residential lots, formed in
1911 at the crossroads of Ladner
Trunk Road and Mathews Road
(96th Street). The village grew
around the existing East Delta
School and St. Stephen’s
Church. Butler’s Store and gas
station saved the local farmers
a long, bumpy and usually
muddy drive into Ladner.
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Sikh workers at the B.C. Packer’s Oyster Plant, ca. 1950
Port Guichon, ca. 1903
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Ave
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41B St
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112 St
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L a d n e
Trail
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NORTH
South end of 112 St,
at dyke
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
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St
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Chu
Commercial oyster operations
in B.C. began in Boundary Bay
at Blackie Spit in 1904 and
continued for nearly 60 years.
Standing at this spot in the
1950s, you could watch John
Christopherson’s tug boat tow
a barge full of freshly picked
oysters to the B.C. Packer’s
plant for shucking.
Between 1940 and 1963,
50% of the provincial
production of oysters
came from Boundary
Bay until water pollution
forced the closure of this unique
local industry.
Port Guichon
PO
East Delta
Oyster Plant
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8
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NORTH
Plaque located on wall of Pump Station,
4200 Block River Rd West, Delta, BC
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
When the railroad reached Port
Guichon in 1903, the town
eclipsed Ladner as Delta’s
transportation centre. Originally
the train stopped on the wharf
to meet steamships from
Victoria. In 1924, the train
station was moved to nearby
Savoy Street. The train
continued to serve Port
Guichon’s sawmill, hotel, farms
and canneries into the 1930s.
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St. David’s
Anglican Church
PO
Harbour Park
& Swensen Trail
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8B Ave
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48 Ave
9 Ave
8A Av e
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Winskill
Park
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NORTH
Ladner Harbour Park,
McNeely’s Way,
Delta, BC
Dr
47A Ave
NORTH
5575 - 9 Ave, Delta, BC
a. 19
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HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
56 St
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54 St
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Riv
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Ladners
Rea
Ladner
Harbour
Park
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Ladner Harbour Park was Art
Swensen’s dream. In 1958 he
envisioned a family park on the
island opposite downtown
Ladner. Art served three terms
as Chair of the Delta Centennial
Committee and, in 1971, finally
convinced the committee to
support the development of
the park. Ladner Harbour Park
is located on old dredging
spoils. Art Swenson took
pleasure in noting that
“every time the river
channel is dredged the
Arthu
r Swe
nsen
park gets bigger.”
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53A St
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55A St
12
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The first Anglican service in
Boundary Bay was held in
the local school in 1908, with
a congregation of 48. Boundary
Bay remained part of All Saints
Parish until 1956. The growing
congregation built their own
church between 1953 and
1955 on the corner of 56th
Street and 12th Avenue. In 1970
the congregation moved to a
larger church, and the old
building was adapted for
recreational use as part of the
Winskill Aquatic and Leisure
Centre in Winskill Park.
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Tsawwassen
First Nation
PO
Early First Nation
Settlement
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PA S S
56 St
16 Ave
11
Church of the Holy Ghost
View Crescent,
Delta, BC
Ceremonial stone bowl,
2000-3000 years old
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
NORTH
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
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nk
NORTH
Tsawwassen Rd
N o r th
View Cres
14B Ave
The Tsawwassen First Nation
Reserve was created at the
winter village site of this Coast
Salish tribe. Cut off from their
traditional territory, the
Tsawwassen people found it
a
17
difficult to sustain themselves
W
Eagle
with traditional hunting, fishing
and gathering. The
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a. 19
village longhouse,
ost, c
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the H
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the centre of
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cultural activity,
146 Tsawwassen
was destroyed
Drive North,
Delta, BC
when Highway
No. 17 was built.
R o b e r t s
56 St
55A St
16 Ave
Wynd
G
lage ree ns
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The plaque marks the southern
end of an aboriginal village built
on an ancient beach above
Boundary Bay. Sixty years ago
you could still see the middens
left by their activities. (The air
photo above shows the midden
area along 56th Street and 16th
Avenue in 1957). Urban growth
has largely destroyed this
important archaeological
site.
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Delta
Tsawwassen
First Nation
PO
Early First Nation
Settlement
e
10
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PA S S
56 St
16 Ave
11
Church of the Holy Ghost
View Crescent,
Delta, BC
Ceremonial stone bowl,
2000-3000 years old
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
NORTH
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
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Ba
nk
NORTH
Tsawwassen Rd
N o r th
View Cres
14B Ave
The Tsawwassen First Nation
Reserve was created at the
winter village site of this Coast
Salish tribe. Cut off from their
traditional territory, the
Tsawwassen people found it
a
17
difficult to sustain themselves
W
Eagle
with traditional hunting, fishing
and gathering. The
30
a. 19
village longhouse,
ost, c
h
G
oly
the H
ch of
r
the centre of
u
h
C
cultural activity,
146 Tsawwassen
was destroyed
Drive North,
Delta, BC
when Highway
No. 17 was built.
R o b e r t s
56 St
55A St
16 Ave
Wynd
G
lage ree ns
Vil
The plaque marks the southern
end of an aboriginal village built
on an ancient beach above
Boundary Bay. Sixty years ago
you could still see the middens
left by their activities. (The air
photo above shows the midden
area along 56th Street and 16th
Avenue in 1957). Urban growth
has largely destroyed this
important archaeological
site.
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Delta
St. David’s
Anglican Church
PO
Harbour Park
& Swensen Trail
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e
o
8B Ave
G il c
hr
48 Ave
9 Ave
8A Av e
lt a
dn
rs
rb
De
La
Ha
ur
Winskill
Park
ist
NORTH
Ladner Harbour Park,
McNeely’s Way,
Delta, BC
Dr
47A Ave
NORTH
5575 - 9 Ave, Delta, BC
a. 19
67
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
56 St
s en
Sw
en
54 St
e
N
il
Mc
Tr a
’s Way
ely
Riv
er
Ro
ad
ch
Ladners
Rea
Ladner
Harbour
Park
St
tt
io
Ell
St
Ladner Harbour Park was Art
Swensen’s dream. In 1958 he
envisioned a family park on the
island opposite downtown
Ladner. Art served three terms
as Chair of the Delta Centennial
Committee and, in 1971, finally
convinced the committee to
support the development of
the park. Ladner Harbour Park
is located on old dredging
spoils. Art Swenson took
pleasure in noting that
“every time the river
channel is dredged the
Arthu
r Swe
nsen
park gets bigger.”
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9
PA S S
53A St
•
55A St
12
Heritag
The first Anglican service in
Boundary Bay was held in
the local school in 1908, with
a congregation of 48. Boundary
Bay remained part of All Saints
Parish until 1956. The growing
congregation built their own
church between 1953 and
1955 on the corner of 56th
Street and 12th Avenue. In 1970
the congregation moved to a
larger church, and the old
building was adapted for
recreational use as part of the
Winskill Aquatic and Leisure
Centre in Winskill Park.
RT •
Delta
•
Sikh workers at the B.C. Packer’s Oyster Plant, ca. 1950
Port Guichon, ca. 1903
99
Hornby Dr
B
y
oundar
c h
Re a
est 44B
Ave
dW
R
r
e
Riv
Ba
41B St
Dy
k
112 St
rs
L a d n e
Trail
e
y
NORTH
South end of 112 St,
at dyke
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
13
PA S S
St
rch
Chu
Commercial oyster operations
in B.C. began in Boundary Bay
at Blackie Spit in 1904 and
continued for nearly 60 years.
Standing at this spot in the
1950s, you could watch John
Christopherson’s tug boat tow
a barge full of freshly picked
oysters to the B.C. Packer’s
plant for shucking.
Between 1940 and 1963,
50% of the provincial
production of oysters
came from Boundary
Bay until water pollution
forced the closure of this unique
local industry.
Port Guichon
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East Delta
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Plaque located on wall of Pump Station,
4200 Block River Rd West, Delta, BC
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
When the railroad reached Port
Guichon in 1903, the town
eclipsed Ladner as Delta’s
transportation centre. Originally
the train stopped on the wharf
to meet steamships from
Victoria. In 1924, the train
station was moved to nearby
Savoy Street. The train
continued to serve Port
Guichon’s sawmill, hotel, farms
and canneries into the 1930s.
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Members of the Martinolich, Bussanich &
Radoslovich families, boat building and fishing
families of Port Guichon, ca. 1913
Delta
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This modest park complements
the distinct character of the Port
Guichon neighborhood in which
Homer Stevens grew up. Homer,
and his father Nick Stevens,
championed the rights of
working people and the union
movement that gave voice to
their aspirations. Commercial
fishing continues to this day
along the dyke opposite the
park. Visitors can still see the
remnants of the original fishing
wharves and net lofts that
belonged to the fishing and boat
building families of Port
Guichon.
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Stevens Park,
4440 River Rd West, Delta, BC
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
NORTH
9581 Ladner Trunk Road, Delta, BC
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
The tiny village of East Delta,
consisting of a store, a
blacksmith shop and several
small residential lots, formed in
1911 at the crossroads of Ladner
Trunk Road and Mathews Road
(96th Street). The village grew
around the existing East Delta
School and St. Stephen’s
Church. Butler’s Store and gas
station saved the local farmers
a long, bumpy and usually
muddy drive into Ladner.
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Westham Island
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9696 Ladner Trunk Road, Delta, BC
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The plaque salutes
the enterprise of
the people of East
Delta. They provided their
community with services centred
in this area, among them St.
Stephen’s Church (1891), East
Delta School (1888), and East
Delta Community Hall (1930).
The East Delta farmers also built
the first municipal dyke on
Boundary Bay in 1892.
Ket
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NORTH
3317 Westham Island Road, Delta, BC
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
Ever since the first farmers and
fisher folk settled here in the
1870s, Westham Island residents
have maintained pride in their
separate identity. Officially
opened in March 1910 with a
lavish banquet, the Westham
Island Bridge ended the
residents’ isolation. Today,
visitors still cross this bridge to
see the Reifel Bird Sanctuary
and to buy produce from the
local farms.
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Interpretive sign at Machie Park
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79A Ave
NORTH
1950
Pathway to
water from
48 Ave/47A St
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
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Ladner Chinatown, ca. 1955
Urban growth has completely
altered the landscape at the west
end of 48th Avenue (Westham
Street). It would be impossible,
without photographs and old
maps, to tell that Ladner’s once
thriving Chinatown lined the
dyke here in the late 1800s. After
much of Chinatown burned in
1929, Chung Chuck
bought land inside the
dyke for his potato field.
The field and dyke are
now covered by a
condominium and
marina complex.
Mackie Park
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Ladner
Chinatown
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10900 - 82 Ave, Delta, BC
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
Mackie Park heralds the
accomplishments of one of
North Delta’s pioneer families.
The sign at the park tells the
story of George Mackie, Sr. who
arrived in British Columbia in
1888 and found work in sawmills
and fishing. Like many early
immigrants, George saw
opportunity in his adopted land.
His vision of “Steel City”, a
planned industrial town in the
Sunbury area, was a grand
scheme that was never realized.
The Mackie family, however,
would go on to create other
successes in Delta.
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Ladner’s Landing
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Kennedy Trail
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James and Caroline Kennedy, 1854
Ladner’s Landing, ca. 1900
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James Kennedy cut the
settlement trail in 1861 from
the Brownsville Wharf on the
Fraser River to pasture land at
Mud Bay. The contract for the
14.5 km (9 mi) road specified
that it be 3 m (10 ft) wide, “all
stumps to be grubbed out or
cut down level with the ground
surface”, marshy spots
corduroyed and bridges “to be
of round poles”. Imagine
standing at this site when it was
NORTH
Gibson Elementary School
11451 - 90 Ave, Delta, BC
a tall, thick forest of Douglas Fir,
48 Ave
NORTH
Southwest
corner of
Chisholm St
and Elliot St
Spruce and Hemlock and facing
this task with only hand saws
and axes!
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
l, ca.
Hote
Delta
1913
The plaque and sign are on the
site of the former Delta Hotel.
The Delta Hotel greeted visitors,
salesmen and new settlers
disembarking at Ladner’s wharf
from the 1880s until 1923, when
the hotel burned down. The
wharf was built in 1875 and this
post office stop became
a town in the 1880s
when Donald
Chisholm purchased
and surveyed the
site. The street still
carries the
Chisholm name.
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Sunbury
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4661 - 51 Street, Delta, BC
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
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The plaque tells us that we should
see a house in front of us;
however, the plaque was erected
one year before the historic
William Ladner house burned
down, likely the result of arson.
The house, Ladner’s third home,
was built in 1882. Paul Ladner,
his son, planted an orchard of
pear and holly trees on the farm
surrounding the home. We enjoy
these same trees to this day.
NORTH
10409 Dunlop Road, Delta, BC
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
Sunbury, before World War II,
was a mixed ethnic
neighbourhood of largely
Japanese and Scandinavian
fishermen living along River Road
between North Delta Heights
and Tilbury Island. The Glenrose
and St. Mungo Canneries were
major employers. The plaque is
located at Sunbury Hall, which
was originally located on Centre
Street at River Road.
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Kirkland Park
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Cannery
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Gunderson Road, Delta, BC
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
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Annieville Cannery, ca. 1905
The Annieville fishing camp sign
marks the site of Peter Birrell’s
cannery, which he built in the
1890s. Annieville Cannery
operated into the 1940s. The
above photo was taken circa
1905, a few years before the
Great Nothern Railway (GNR)
was built through Annieville on
the old River Road grade.
Gunderson Slough formed later,
as a result of growing industrial
activity along the river.
4026 Arthur Drive, Delta, BC
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
The Kirkland family were
early pioneers in Delta and were
active in the economic, social and
political life of the municipality
as early as the 1870s. This large
family home was constructed in
1911 for William and Edna
Kirkland and their six children on
their farm called Hawthorne
Grove. Volunteers of the Kirkland
House Foundation are restoring
it for public use.
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Trinity Lutheran Church,
dedicated May 22, 1910,
overlooks the historic fishing
village of Annieville. Part of the
message placed in the corner
stone reads: “Remember the
promise you gave on the day of
your Confirmation, back home
in the unforgettable Norway.”
This building became the new
home for the congregation after
the church at Norum Point was
demolished, making way for the
new Great Northern Railway
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it is historically significant to Delta.
1 Annieville
TABLE OF CONTENTS
2 Annieville Cannery
Tilbury
Island
days of British Columbia and
First Nation.
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Sunbury
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5 Mackie
Kennedy
Trail Park
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Mackie Park
Early First Nation Settlement
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10 EarlyFirst
First Nation
Nation Settlement
Tsawwassen
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Harbour Park & Swensen Trail
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Port Guichon
14
12 Stevens
HarbourPark
Park & Swenson Trail
Homer
15
Westham
Island
13 Port
Guichon
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Ladner Chinatown
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Ladner’s Landing
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Kirkland Park
W.H. Ladner House
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• "Goodfellows" fishing camp on Boundary Bay, ca. 1895
• Unloading fish at the Delta Cannery, ca. 1880
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• Hauling shingle blocks
Thompson
Mill, North Delta, ca. 1910
• Delta farmers plowing match, 1928
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neighbours, the Tsawwassen
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one we share with our
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reaching back to the earliest
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community, a history
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celebrating the rich and
varied history of our
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learn
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a plaque or sign. The Delta Heritage Advisory
Delta’s official Historic Sites.
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in a series of “passports” to
Delta Museum
M and Archives
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identified in this passport is marked with
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Commission publishes
its first
Each
site
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that this Passport
Using
the Delta Heritage Advisory
Tsawwassen
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John Oliver Farmhouse, 1902
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VOLUME I
Delta Street, Ladner
ca. 1912
1
Annieville
2
Annieville Cannery
3
Sunbury
4
Kennedy Trail
5
Mackie Park
6
St. Stephen’s Church
7
Butler’s Corner
8
East Delta Oyster Plant
9
St. David’s Anglican Church
10
Early First Nation Settlement
11
Tsawwassen First Nation
12
Harbour Park & Swenson Trail
13
Port Guichon
14
Homer Stevens Park
15
Westham Island
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Ladner Chinatown
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Ladner’s Landing
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W.H. Ladner House
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Kirkland Park
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learn why it is historically significant to Delta.
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Delta
Commission invites you to visit each location and
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a plaque or sign. The Delta Heritage Advisory
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Each site identified in this passport is marked with
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Using this Passport
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For further information
please contact the
Community Planning &
Development Department
Delta Municipal Hall
(Delta Museum and Archives after 1969)
ca. 1914
The Corporation of Delta
4500 Clarence Taylor Cres
Delta, British Columbia
V4K 3E2
4858 Delta Street
Delta, British Columbia
V4K 2T8
Delta Museum and Archives
TELEPHONE
TELEPHONE
604.946.3380
604.946.9322
FAX
PA S S
HISTORIC
SITES
IN DELTA
VOLUME I
Plaques & Interpretive Signs
604.946.4148
EMAIL
[email protected]
WEB
www.corp.delta.bc.ca
Photos courtesy of the
Delta Museum & Archives
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