History Helps Volume Seven, Number 10, September 2007
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• Greetings
• Owners of Vehicles during the First World War
• Brick-making in Richmond, B.C.
• Subscription, Privacy Policy

GREETINGS! AND HAPPY LABOUR DAY!

Owners of Vehicles during the First World War

I’ve never quite figured out the point of the item, as it appeared in a local newspaper. Shaming of a sort while there’s a war going on? Lack of patriotism in having a new vehicle instead of contributing to the war effort? I’m open to suggestions.

“THOSE WHO OWN NEW CARS IN LADNER

Following is a list of a few of the car owners and their new motors bought during the last few months:

Will Fredericks, Maxwell passenger and truck [sic] and Nash truck
Billie Maxwell, McLaughlin Six
Alex Montgomery, McLaughlin Four
R. A. Coleman, Ford
George Clark, Ford
Jim Laurie, Ford
Ted E. Down, Chalmers
A. T. Fawcett, Gray Dort Special
Chas. Davis, McLaughlin Six
Jack Frederick, Maxwell
W. H. Wilson, Chalmers
Sam Morley, McLaughlin 6
Smith Wright, McLaughlin 6
Bob Smith, Overland
Paddy Kittson, McLaughlin 6
Mrs. E. Holmes, Franklin
Jim McRae, McLaughlin
Wm Hennessy, Gray Dort
F. J. Coulthart, Gray Dort
E. Hutcherson, ford
Geo. Candy, Ford
O. A. Murphy, Oldsmobile
S. Whitworth, McLaughlin
Charlie Arthur, Baby McLaughlin
Hans Montgomery, Dodge
Wm. Simmons, Ford
J. Guichon, Oldsmobile
W. Jeffries, Napier
Doctor King, Studebaker 6
Archibald Siggins, McLaughlin
Joe Harris, Mitchell
S. W. Walters, Studebaker
J. Johnson, Ford
J. Ellis, Maxwell
David Tucker, McLaughlin.”

Source: The Weekly Gazette and Home News, 20 July 1918, page 3.

Brick-making in Richmond, B.C.

“RICHMOND NOTES:

Mr. Lambert, formerly from Illinois, but for the last year engaged in brick making at Chilliwack in company with his father and brothers, paid a visit to the western end of Lulu Island known as Terra Nova and also to Steveston on Saturday Last. The object of his visit was to investigate the nature of the soil with a view to starting a brickyard.

The clay at Chilliwack, he says is first-class, but the shipping accommodations for market are so inconvenient that the work in that vicinity for the present must necessarily be abandoned.

After a thorough investigation he came to the conclusion that Terra NOva clay was very similar to that of Chilliwack, and at once made preliminary arrangements to start a brickyard on the premises of Mr. Mellis, the postmaster. Mr. Lambert has been a practical brickmaker all his life and pronounces the clay on Mr. Mellis’ place the best he has ever seen and is surprised that such a fine specimen of this valuable material should be so close ot Vancouver and nothing ever said about it before.

The shipping facilities are all that can be desired and the markets of Vancouver, New Westminster, Victoria and Nanaimo are easy of access.

In a few days it is expected that the final arrangements will be completed, when the Messrs. Lambert will move their plant down and at once commence operations on the Terra Nova clay. Welcome, gentlemen, thrice welcome with your new industry in our midst.”

Source: Vancouver Daily World, 17 May 1893, page five.

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