From the time before the White Man to the first Port Moody city council meeting, the peaks and valleys of Burrard Inlet have reflected the up-and-down fortunes of its people.
Port Moody people were promised the western terminus of the new national railway. Then their hopes were dashed.
In this well-wrought chronicle, Mrs. D.M. Norton has collected the facts and marshaled them into the fascinating and human story of one town's grit and determination.
Expertly, she leads us along the trail of discovery. We visit the Indian middens and the shorelines that Captain Vancouver surveyed. We stand where the city's first sawmills stood, and we greet the shopkeepers, hoteliers, school teachers, and ministers. We meet the first train and even share Lady John A. MacDonald's ride on a train engine cowcatcher.
We meet Port Moody founders Colonel R. C. Moody, John Murray (junior and senior), James A. Clarke, and many, many more.
These are truly fascinating people, brought to life again by the curiosity, research and writing skills of retired schoolteacher Mrs. D. M. Norton. |
