salary – Transcribimus

Vancouver City Officials’ salaries will total $12,600 this year – April 4, 1887

By 1887

Salaries for all City Officials expected to total $12,600 for 1887. Thos. Quann asked Council for “relief” (welfare benefits) for Neil Nicholson, and D. McLeod. Abrams & Co. submitted bills to the Board of Health; $35 for bedding and $14 for coffins. Dr. McGuigan’s report on the death of Simon Heisburg to go to the City Solicitor to see if the City has any liability in the matter.

Correspondence from Yung Chung asking for “protection from mob” – February 28, 1887

By 1887

Petition asking for protection from the mob was filed. Motion carried to “exempt from taxation for a period of twenty years, the yards, workshops, round houses of the Canadian Pacific Railway…on the North Side of False Creek”. Salary of City Engineer doubled from $50 per month to $100. Both roads to New Westminster are “almost impassable.”