arrived. To meet the situation the groom persuaded his
sister to come with them and become the school teacher for
the community. There were some Indian, Kanaka and half-
breed children who should have schooling. On their arrival
the company erected a building that was to serve as a school-
house. It was built on the sawdust filling which gradually
was extended until it was large enough for baseball games,
and became known as “The Spit”. Not far from the school
house was the burner of the mill, the smoke from which at
times became so dense as to lead to the dismissal of school.

The “Burrard Inlet” school district, when it was gazetted
on July 27, 1870, was described as “all that piece of land
included within the shoreline of Burrard Inlet and a line
drawn around the said Inlet at a distance of one mile there-
from.” Point Atkinson was also included. As pupils other
than those at Moody’s Mills had to come by water, and, as
they and their parents had other interests than school, the average attendance was
never high. The inspector was so poorly impressed with the building and its equip-
ment on his first visit that he recommended that the government grant be withdrawn.
This apparently was done, but it reappeared on the schedules of the Department of
Education after a year or two. The highest enrolment of its
career up to 1885 was in 1878, viz., 63, but the average
attendance for that year was only 29.59. Mrs. Murray
Thain succeeded Miss Haynes in 1872. It was she who
suggested that the locality be called “Moodyville”.

If there had been such a thing as a good citizenship medal
in the 70’s it would undoubtedly have gone to Mrs. Captain
J. P. Patterson. With no doctor or nurse nearer than New
Westminster, she, although untrained, stepped into the
breach, and very effectively, too, whenever a nurse was
needed. She braved heavy seas and inclement weather on
her Good Samaritan trips.

The social event of the decade was the marriage, on
December 2, 1874, of her daughter Abbie Lowell to Captain
MRS. M. N. THAIN Frederick William Jordan of the ship Marmion on the eve
of her sailing for China. Cannon boomed from noon till
6 p.m. in honour of the happy event. Six years later the Moodyville correspondent
of the Victoria Colonist, under date of September 21, 1880, reported another such
event in these words: “The greatest event of the season was the marriage of Miss
Beckie Patterson to Captain Pierce of the Eldorado. The happy pair were
made one in New Westminster, and after their return to Moodyville some 50 friends
sat down to supper on board Captain Pierce's ship.”

LAURA A. HAYNES

On the night of November 4, 1875, a blow fell on the Moodyville community from
which it possibly never recovered. The steamship Pacific, on which Moody was
making one of his periodic trips to San Francisco, was in collision with the American
ship Orpheus off Cape Flattery. There were two survivors. Moody was not
one of these. .

During the years that he had been at the helm the mills had weathered the
depression years of the sixties; the overseas trade had been greatly expanded; and
certain auxiliary enterprises had been inaugurated. A telegraph cable had been laid
across the Inlet; the barque Delaware, grounded on Fisgard Island in 1869, had been
bought for a few dollars, refloated, repaired at Esquimalt, and put on the run to
San Francisco; the Etta White, spirited away from Seattle by her unpaid captain and
engineer, was bought, and for a number of years was the queen towboat of the Inlet.
At the time of Moody’s death the company was in process of establishing a cattle
ranch at Squamish which was to provide fresh beef for Moodyville. This fell through
when the road from Pemberton to Squamish was found impracticable.

For some years the company had been known as “Moody, Dietz, Nelson & Co.”
When Moody died Nelson automatically took charge. He was an Irishman who
along with Dietz had come into the company in 1866, after the two had carried on
an express business in the Cariboo. At the time of Moody’s death he had already
become involved in public life. He was a member of the Legislative Council of
B. C. in 1871. In that year he was also elected to the House of Commons, repre-

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