Posts by Joanne McCormick

Alderman Brown announced that if Mr. Ludgate was allowed by the Province to log Deadman’s Island, he would move that the City Solicitor look in to the City’s rights to the Island. Council agreed that the City claims free access to the foreshore Burrard Inlet over the ends of Cambie, Carroll and Abbott Streets and that notice be given to the CPR to that effect.

If the Rogers Sugar Refining Co. grant the City use of their wharf for 66 feet west of Rogers Street, the Council will have no objection to the foreshore applied for by the Company being granted.

Final reports and accounts from 1898 were received. A letter from the Health Inspector re J.T. Abray’s claim regarding blocking of Cosmopolitan {Hotel} sewer (pictured here) was referred to the City Solicitor.

Council approved a contract with Mssrs Armstrong and Morrison “for the furnishing of steel riveted mains for the Water Works Department”. The Finance Committee and the City Solicitor had previously vetted the contract.

The only proposed amendment that “cannot be agreed to” by Council was “on the approval of the Medical Board” after Council’s decision.

The City Clerk was directed to write to F. Gourdeau, Deputy Minister of Marine and Fisheries. The City has no objection against the granting of the foreshore applied for by the BC Sugar Refining Co. However, the City would apply for the foreshore fronting on Boundary Avenue and also Heatly Avenue.

The City Solicitor giving it as his opinion that Col Domville was entitled to the refund of the amount paid by him to the City for the removal of a portion of Granville Street for getting his boat through. During 1899, the steamer ran from Dawson to Whitehorse every six days, connecting with the Clifford Sifton to Bennett. On June 12, 1899, the ship was wrecked in Thirty Mile River while under command of Captain Syd C. Barrington; a total loss. The riffle was known for years as the Domville Bar.

Police Constable McIntosh (one of the two pictured above) received a Doctor’s Bill six dollars for dressing a wound received while in the discharge of his duty. Council resolved he be informed that the City has no authority to pay this account. Resolved that the Police be required hereafter to insure against accident or death in the sum of $2000. This to take effect on the 1^st of December 1898, the insurance premiums to be deducted from the salaries monthly.