History Helps Volume Seven, Number 9, August 2007
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• Greetings
• Boundary Bay Airport
• Point Roberts, Washington State
• Subscription, Privacy Policy

GREETINGS!

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Boundary Bay Airport

“Ladner Field

The new airport between the town of Ladner and Boundary Bay which is being developed as a primary training field for the Empire Air training scheme, has an ideal site of some 600 acres of perfectly flat, delta land, which should produce an excellent turf for the use of the small training planes.

Without a single hazard, or obstruction, the site which has been acquired by the department of transport will be developed for initial, or primary training only. This means that no hard-surfaced runways will be laid down.

All of the 600 acres will not be used for the actual flying field, but about 300 acres in the centre, laid out in an octagonal shape will be drained, graded and seeded. Houses and barns also on the boundaries are being removed, or demolished.”

Source: The Daily [Vancouver] Province, 05 October 1940, page 37.

Point Roberts, Washington State

“POINT ROBERTS FISHERIES

In the U. S. District Court, Seattle, on Monday, the case of the tribe of Lummi Indians against the Alaska Packing Co. and Mrs. Kate Waller, came up on motion to dissolve a temporary injunction granted a short time ago.

The Indians claim that according to the terms of a treaty signed by the representatives of the United States in 1855 they were granted in perpetuity the right to fish on Point Roberts, and to gather berries on the shore and dig clams and generally make themselves at home. They now claim that the erection of a cannery and the traps and nets set for fish by the cannery company virtually deprive them of the rights intended to be conveyed to them by the treaty of 1855. The defendants on the other hand claim that the Indians can continue to fish, and are now and have been more prosperous by reason of the cannery being operated, as they are paid cash for the fish they catch, and that the books of the company show that it has paid the Indians thousands of dollars for fish caught by them during the past few years.

The property in question was filed on as a homestead by the husband of Mrs. Kate Waller, who was afterwards drowned in Chuckanut bay. Mrs. Waller leased the land to the Alaska Packing Co., which claims to have invested nearly three-quarters of a million [dollars] in the plant. Fish begin to run at Point Roberts about July 1st, and the season lasts from 20 to 40 days.

The Indians claim that not only are they barred out from the fisheries in the water, but that the building of the canneries and the large force of men employed about them prevent their picking berries and camping in the old-time manner. The packing company claims on the other hand, that no Lummi Indians ever fished at Point Roberts in former years and that only British Columbia Indians used the fishing grounds, supposing that Point Roberts was British territory. Judge Hanford took the case under advisement.”

Source: Vancouver Daily World, 26 June 1895, page five.

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