senting New Westminster, and sat in the House for three years. Moody's death and his consequent responsibility at the mill may have had something to do with the fact that from 1874 to 1879 he was not in any legislative body. In the latter year he | was appointed a Senator, and sat in the Upper House from 1879 till 1887. He was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia on February 8, 1887, and con- tinued in that position until November 1, 1892. He died March 7, 1893.

That Moodyville was still being run by enterprising men is proven by the fact that the first onshore electric lights north of San Francisco were turned on at the mills on February 4, 1882. Two weeks later the City Council of Victoria, who were contemplating such a move, made a special trip to see the lights. They arrived about midnight and Senator Nelson got up and had the lights turned on for their inspection. The installation had been the work of Squire Jones Randall, an Oregonian, then master mechanic at Moodyville Mills. (He also installed the first foghorn at Point Atkinson). The Columbian of current date tells that there were “ten lights or burners each being equal to 2000 candle-power.” They were the old carbon type, the electric spark jumping half an inch from one carbon stick to another. The cost was reported to be $4000.

In that same year Ben Springer, another old Cariboo man, became manager of the mill. At that date they were working 111% hours a day, and wages were from $50 to $125 per month. J. H. Ramsdell succeeded Springer in 1891, and J. S. Woods followed in 1895. It may be noted that the first lumber steamer in these parts, the Remus, was loaded at Moodyville in November, 1890.

Meantime the ownership of the mill had been changing from time to time. In 1878, the year before Nelson became a Senator, the company was reorganized. The B. C. Statutes of that year contain an Act to Incorporate the Moodyville Sawmill Co. As stated in the act, the company was composed of Hugh Nelson, Robert Patterson Rithet, Andrew Welch, James Burns, Montague W. Tyrwhitt Drake, Peter McQuade and John Irving.

In 1891 the mill became the property of the Lonsdale Estate, an English company. For some years Lonsdale ran the mill through Wulfson Bewicke & Co., and later through Robert Ward & Co. In 1902 the mill was sold to John Hendry of the Royal City Planer Mills, who had also purchased the Hastings Mill on the south shore in 1889. When the Hastings Mill burned in October of 1898, he used the Moodyville mill until it was rebuilt. After that the Moodyville mill remained idle, Hendry being mainly interested in its timber limits and other assets. In 1916 the idle mill burned down; and when in 1927 the low level road was put through to the Second Narrows bridge, the old settlement was largely demolished.

The “big house” on the hill, the home of Nelson and succeeding managers, with its surrounding bit of park, now became part of the Hendry Estate. The Honourable E. W. Hamber, Hendry’s son-in-law, kept horses there during the period when he was Lieutenant-Governor. It is now owned by J. W. Pattison, of the Pacific Athletic Club, Vancouver. Beautiful for situation, it includes in its interest a delightful swimming pool, a Scottish gardener, horses, and some relics of bygone days.

Meantime other settlement on the north shore had been taking place. W. L. Keene has done some fine research work on the development which in 1891 led to the creation of the Municipality of North Vancouver. One of the earlier settlers himself, he has much first-hand knowledge to which he has added by careful study. He has listed the various pre-emptions and purchases up to 1891. By 1890 26,733 acres had been taken up by 177 persons. This is about half the total area. Unfortunately, however, only about ten of these persons were residents, and these were scattered from the North Arm of the Inlet to Point Atkinson. The crying need was for roads.

On the 19th of November, 1890, a meeting was held in the office of G. G. McKay, “The Laird of Capilano”, on Pender Street, Vancouver, to discuss the incorporation of the north shore as a municipality. Only seven persons attended. At another meeting held at the same place on March 14, 1891, there were 22 present. A petition to the Provincial Government was drawn up and signed by all present. On August 4 the charter of the Municipality of “North Vancouver’ was received, and the inaugural meeting of the new municipality took place on August 29. It was held at Tom Turner’s ranch just west of where the ferry now lands, a point destined to become the focal centre of the City of North Vancouver. At this meeting C. J. P. Phibbs, the first Reeve, and Councillors Turner and Thompson were sworn in. Councillors J. Nelmes and C. E. Mahon were not present. The second meeting was

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