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"But first glance with me at the river on our right, broad and clear and wider than the Thames at Westminster, and across it at these narrow flats, with a few shanties on them scattered here and there, with blue wreaths of smoke above their chimneys, and a long, low, white cannery, reflecting the sun, under the gentle slope of a hill covered with fir and pine. Then see how the river spreads out above this to twice its breadth below, bending away to the right until it takes no reflections, but throws out sparkles from the ripples of a solitary gust of wind and in a moment is lost to sight. . ."

Morley Roberts, The Western Avernus

Old view from New Westminster.

Tsimlana and other Indians, 1859 and before.
Revenue Officers at the Revenue Station, from February 1859. WH Bevis and Mary Bevis in a house at the Station.
SW Herring and family from March 1860.
Downriver neighbour, Ebenezer Brown from February 1861.

See the maps shown or with your map search engine locate: "Musqueam Drive Surrey BC."
This road led toward the river, to the Herring place.
The Revenue Station was about at the railway junction, and the foreshore is now occupied by a salvage yard. The entire Point was formerly occupied by Indian houses.

Sam and Hannah Herring entered into commercial production of their prize-winning fruit wines and jams as early as 1870, supplying British Columbia, Washington and Oregon.

The British Columbia Archives http://www.bcarchives.bc.ca lists other photos of the Herring family for which no thumbnail images are available.

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S. W. Herring of New Westminster

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Mrs. M. W. Herring

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Tillman Willard Herring

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Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Herring

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Tillman Willard Herring

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Mrs. Herring

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John Herring

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T.W. HERRING