Great Britain, North Ireland & The Republic of Ireland Heritage, History, Traditions & Customs “The British Isles Historic Society Newsletter” Our History, Our Heritage commissioner of Lands and Works for the Colony and the first lieutenant governor of British Columbia: he was hand-picked by the Colonial Office in London to transform British Columbia into the British Empire's "bulwark in the farthest west", and "to found a second England on the shores of the Pacific". Moody selected the site for and founded the original capital of British Columbia, New Westminster, and "A generation which ignores history also established the Cariboo Road and Stanley Park, has no past and no future." and also designed the first version of the coat of … Robert Heinlein arms of British Columbia. Port Moody is named after him. “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture In 1866, Vancouver Island became part of the colony of British Columbia, and Victoria became the is like a tree without roots.” united colony's capital. In 1871, British Columbia … Marcus Garvey became the sixth province of Canada. Its Latin motto Richard Clement Moody was hand-picked by is Splendor sine occasu ("Splendour without the Colonial Office, under Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Diminishment"). British Columbia evolved from to establish British order and to transform the newly British possessions that were established in what is established Colony of British Columbia (1858–66) now British Columbia by 1871. into the British Empire's "bulwark in the farthest First Nations, the original inhabitants of the west" and "found a second England on the shores of land, have a history of at least 10,000 years in the the Pacific". area. Today there are few treaties, and the question The first British settlement in the area was Fort of aboriginal title, long ignored, has become a Victoria, established in 1843, which gave rise to the frequently debated legal and political question as a City of Victoria, at first the capital of the separate result of recent court actions. Notably, the Colony of Vancouver Island. The Colony of British Tsilhqot'in Nation has established aboriginal title to a Columbia (1858–1866) was subsequently founded portion of their territory, as a result of the 2014 on the mainland by Richard Clement Moody and the Supreme Court of Canada decision in Tsilhqot'in Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment, in response Nation v British Columbia. to the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush. Moody was chief https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia St. Luke's across the river and plant young fruit trees wherever he could find natural clearings. As a result, by the Anglican Parish, time he took up his homestead in 1858, he already had bearing trees – the first in BC not owned by the Victoria B.C. Hudson’s Bay Company. Samuel was the first European to settle and farm in Maple Ridge. In 1859, a year after the famous Caribou Gold Rush began, the Reverend George Hills, formerly Remnants of those early orchards can still be found Rector of Great Yarmouth in near the mouth of Kanaka Creek. England, was consecrated Bishop of http://mapleridgemuseum.org/ the Diocese of British Columbia. He left Southampton for Victoria on In modern November 17th, 1859, with a England, a side magnificent endowment of 25,000 of bacon is called a pounds sterling, a gift from Baroness Gammon Bacon Burdett-Coutts, a wealthy Englishwoman who was very generous to church and charities. It was a "gammon" and a thin perilous journey, one that could last for several slice of bacon is months if the long route south around the tip of European Streaky South America was followed. Bishop Hills chose a known as a "rasher". Bacon or Rashers shorter route, by sea to the isles of the Caribbean, across the Isthmus of Panama by the newly The British Isles Historic Society would like to thank completed railway, and then by steamer north to San Strong’s Market for their support. Francisco and on to Victoria. Your Headquarters for https://www.stlukesvictoria.ca/welcome/history/pages/the-origins- British Groceries of-st-lukes-parish Sam Robertson Sam was born in the Orkney Islands of Scotland in 1823. Before he left there, he became a tradesman skilled in boat building, carpentry, and cabinet-making. He signed on with the Hudson’s Bay Company, whose ships stopped at the Orkneys for fresh water, shipping round the Horn with a huge sandstone grindstone brought from home, and arrived at Fort Langley in 1843. He worked there for several years, working off his passage, and became attracted to the beautiful land he could see across the river. Stong’s on Dunbar Stong’s N. Vancouver While still working at the Fort, he would row 4221 Dunbar St, Vancouver 2150 Dollarton Hwy, N. Vancouver Which do you prefer Barkerville, AFTERNOON B.C. or HIGH TEA? William "Billy" When I was a kid Barker (1817– we would always have 1894), was an English prospector Pic Compliments of VENUS time for tea but usually who was famous for being one of SOPHIA MODERN TEA ROOM only on a Saturday or the first to find a large amount of Sunday. My Brothers gold in the Cariboo of British and Sisters were all farmers in Alberta and when you Columbia. He also founded were out in the field combining or haying at about Barkerville which is preserved as a historic town. 4:00 p.m. you would expect to see the pick–up truck Barker was born in 1817 in March, Cambridgeshire, to coming flying across the field with a large one England and was baptised on 7 June 1817 in St gallon jug of tea and sandwiches. We would stop Wendreda's Church, March. As a child he worked as working for half an hour to have tea. Do those from a waterman on the waterways of England. He the British Isles still take afternoon tea breaks? married Jane Lavender in Earith, Cambridgeshire in Delectable scones, tea sandwiches, and cakes 1839 and had one daughter named Emma Eliza. are the hallmark of an afternoon tea, which is served Lavender died in the workhouse in Doddington, in midafternoon. A high tea, however, includes much Cambridgeshire, in 1850. more substantive fare, such as meat, fish, and egg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Barker_prospector) dishes, as well as breads and desserts, and is offered in the early evening. Cream Tea refers to scones with James Bowman Lindsay clotted cream (also called Devonshire cream) and James Bowman Lindsay (8 September jam. If you visit the UK, you will find Cream Tea 1799 – 29 June 1862) was a Scottish available on a lot of cafe menus, especially near inventor and author. He is tourist hot spots like castles or cathedrals. credited with early developments in several fields, such as incandescent lighting and A cuppa of tea should be served with both telegraphy. savory and sweet snacks. There should be sandwiches, scones, pastries and cakes— served in Bacon sandwiches are an this order: Savory (finger sandwiches with various all-day favourite throughout the fillings); neutral (scones, crumpets, buns); sweet United Kingdom and the Republic (cakes, biscuits, pastries) of Ireland. Alternative names: Bacon butty, bacon sarnie, bacon bap, rasher Our British sandwich, bacon sandi, piece 'n bacon, bacon cob, Customs & bacon barm, bacon muffin and is a sandwich of cooked Traditions bacon between bread that is optionally spread with butter, and may be seasoned with www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/ ketchup or brown sauce. There is guide/how-throw-afternoon-tea- also a “Sausage Butty” and a “Chip party Butty” popular in the U.K. The British In British Columbia mariner and entrepreneur who contributed to the early economic development of British Columbia and Brock House Vancouver Island. Born at Alnwick in Brock House is an Northumberland, England. authentic Tudor replica heritage building on Jericho The Orpheum beach. Designed by Scottish Philip Gilman, a mining engineer from England, architect Marcus Priteca, the purchased the waterfront lots in 1906 and 1909, theatre officially opened on making his estate two and a half acres with over 300 November 8, 1927 as a vaudeville feet of sandy beach waterfront. In 1911, he engaged house, but it hosted its first shows the noted architect, Samuel Maclure to design the the previous day. house and in March 1912 contracted construction to The old Orpheum, at 761 the firm of Coffin & McLelland. Granville Street, was renamed the Vancouver Theatre (later the Lyric, then the Hastings Mill International Cinema, then the Lyric once more before it closed for demolition in 1969 to make way for the first phase of the Pacific Centre project). The New Orpheum, which was the biggest Hastings Mill was a sawmill on theatre in Canada when it opened in 1927, with the south shore of Burrard three thousand seats, cost $1.25 million to construct. Inlet and was the first commercial operation around Benjamin Marcus Priteca FAIA (December 23, which the settlement that would become Vancouver 1889 – October 1, 1971) was born in Glasgow, developed in British Columbia, Canada. Founded in Scotland 1865 by Edward Stamp, the sawmill operated until its closure in 1928. Priteca met Seattle vaudeville theatre owner Alexander Pantages in 1910 and won from him a In 1867, Captain Edward Stamp began commission to design the San Francisco Pantages producing lumber in Stamp's Mill at the foot of what Theater (1911), the first of many so-named is now Dunlevy Avenue after a planned site at vaudeville and motion picture houses in what would Brockton Point proved unsuitable due to difficult become one of the largest theater chains in North currents and a shoal.