Switching gears from photos to documents today. In going through pages and pages and pages of Crown Grant ledger books, this nugget was found. Well, there have been loads of other nuggets, but this one is really cool.
The land for the original Beaver School was donated by Mr. John Knox, who had received a land pre-emption from the government in 1889. Here are images of some of the documents officially transferring the school property to the Township of Langley. Mr. Knox's Quarter Section is marked on the map.
Research into land records and settlers is ongoing (and time consuming), but piece by piece we're working through our community timeline back to before settler contact and beyond.
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Switching gears from photos to documents today. In going through...