History Helps Volume Seven, Number 6, May 2007
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• Greetings
• Summers at Boundary Bay
• B. C. Directories
• Vancouver Public Library Newsletter for Genealogists
• Subscription, Privacy Policy

GREETINGS!

Summers at Boundary Bay

“Big Raid Still Remembered

Many residents of Delta will still remember the big raid that took place at Boundary Bay on August 15, 1929. On Saturday evening five officers came ashore from a U.S. revenue cutter and stopped all cars on the Boundary Bay and Point Roberts roads and searched them for liquor. Disaster was narrowly averted in many instances by children who were sent down the road to warn daddy who was on his way out for a quiet weekend at the cottage. Word was soon passed back to cars as they came along and in a short time the officers departed.”

Source: The Ladner Optimist, 12 June 1952, page ten.

B. C. Directories

In a recent research expedition through the B. C. Directories, City of Vancouver, I came across an entry in the mid 1930s for: “Ivy Lodge for Babies” on Broadway. I can think of several explanations for this, including a home for the babies of “unwed mothers” prior to adoption, or an orphanage -- or just a matter of interest.

Vancouver Public Library Newsletter for Genealogists

The following two items from the current VPL newsletter may be useful to subscribers:

1. Ocean View Cemetery Monumental Inscriptions
Monumental inscriptions from Ocean View Cemetery in Burnaby, B.C. can now be viewed on the CD-ROM station in the Genealogy area on Level 6 at the Central Library.

2. Dictionary of Canadian Biography Volume XV, 1921-1930

The renowned Dictionary of Canadian Biography recently released its 15th volume. The latest addition to this remarkable reference work provides detailed biographical information on Canadians who died between 1921-1930. The Dictionary of Canadian Biography is also available for free online: http://www.biographi.ca/

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