Central Fraser Valley Echo
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: Flamond, Alfred
issued: 2022-09-15
issued: 1966-02-14
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note: TMV CENTRAL FRASER VALLEY SERVING THE LANGLEY AND MATSQUI DISTRICTS M9VIBCI4I, IrlBMrV MBl.lJ.MttT bumm MMMM • 0 <tmmmtm< U Aldergrove Fire Call,: 534-4141 Police: 5344184 Matsqui Fire or Police 659-5225 ■ »■■•«•■" » u —ma ECHO Vol. 10- No. 6 10<; Per Copy Aldergrove, B.C. Monday, February 14th, 1966 $3.00 Per Year Four Pages $784,000 For A New S System in Clearbrook FOUNDERS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PETER O'REILLY "Now boys, there must be no shooting, for if there ts shooting there will surely be hanging." Thus did Peter O'Reilly lay down the law in the rought and ready mining settlement of Wild Horse Creek in the Kootenays in'the 1860's. And there was no more shooting. He had come out from Ireland In 1859 when he was Just reaching manhood, but already he had served In the Irish Revenue Police and he was a logical choice when Governor James Douglas wanted a stipendiary magistrate for Fort Langley. Within two years he was gold commissioner and stipendiary magistrate in the Cariboo, collecting -miners' licence fees and registering claim and settling disputes with a firm hand. He held the same posts at the Big Bend strike and later at Wild Horse Creek. When the government decided to charge a royalty on miners' gold that task also fell to him -- but It was a futile undertaking and the royalty was dropped. O'Reilly was appointed judge for Yale in 1867 but he was back In the mining camps of Omlneca soon alter. In 1861 he led a party on an historic winter trek to the coast by the Skeena River route over snow sometimes 30 feet deep - and for a time was given up as lost. He served on the B.C.LeglslatlveCouncllandwas a strong supporter of Confederation and was a brother-in-law to B.C.'s first Lieutenant-Governor Joseph Trutch. O'Reilly settled in Victoria and his last appointment was Indian Reserve Commissioner. He died in 1905. -B.C. Centennial Committee ewer Unusual Convention for Local Teachers Matsqui Reeve J. A. Murphy spoke Tuesday night at the Clearbrook Board of Trade mee…
note: Title changes in chronological order: Aldergrove Herald (1957-10-16 to 1958-02-20), Aldergrove News (1958-02-27 to 1964-04-30), Central Fraser Valley Echo (1964-05-06 to 1967-01-10), Central Fraser Valley Star (1967-01-17 to 1969-02-05), and Aldergrove Star (1969-02-12 to 1991-12-31). Presented to the Alder Grove Heritage Society by Kurt Langmann and Family, July 1, 2021.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Aldergrove (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0419634
language: English
lat: 49.0851
long: -122.4707
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Aldergrove Publishing Ltd.
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