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PORT COQUITLAM THE TRI - CITY NEWS March 7, 2013 is the 100th anniversary of incorporation of the city of Port Coquitlam. To mark this occasion, The Tri-City News produced this special section on the city’s history, focusing especially on the city’s early days and the people who laid the foundation for the Port Coquitlam of today... 100 www.tricitynews.com Tri-City News Wednesday, March 6, 2013, C1

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PORTCOQUITLAM

THE TRI-CITY NEWSMarch 7, 2013 is the 100th anniversary of incorporation of the city of Port Coquitlam. To mark this occasion, The Tri-City News produced this special section on the city’s history, focusing especially on the city’s early days and the people who laid the foundation for the Port Coquitlam of today...

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YEARS POCO PRIDEOF

1913-2013

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PORT COQUITLAM100Rivers, rails, roads shaped city’s developmentThe city of Port Coquitlam owes its de-

velopment to the rivers that seemingly surround it, the roads and rails that run

through it, and the citizens who helped mould its past, present and future.

Throughout history, the local rivers sus-tained the First Nation peoples and the settlers who followed in the 19th century.

By 1913 a small farming and logging com-munity called Westminster Junction, part of the District of Coquitlam, was incorporated as the city of Port Coquitlam.

At that time, the population stood at around 1,300 in an area of 6,200 acres running east-west between the Pitt and Coquitlam rivers, and north-south bordering Burke Mountain and the Fraser River.

To span those rivers, bridges were soon erected, although in the case of the venerable old Red Bridge over the Coquitlam River, it was a matter of frequent replacement.

The original crossing, dating back to the Royal Engineers in 1862, washed away in 1894 in the largest flood on record.

The next span was condemned in 1932 and the replacement bridge lasted until 1959.

Then, on Oct. 26, 1982, a truck collision with a supporting beam collapsed this struc-ture, and a temporary bailey bridge was laid down, and carried traffic for the next 14 years. The current Red Bridge was dedicated in November 1996.

The public could only cross the Pitt River by ferry until March 1915, when the provincial government highway bridge was built. Its replacement was opened with much fanfare in October 1957 and lasted until the current Pitt River Bridge was opened in 2009. Other bridges in the city cross the Coquitlam River at Lougheed Highway (built 1950) and Kingsway

Avenue (built 1985).The location of the Canadian Pacific

Railway marshalling yards in the centre of Port Coquitlam created a definitive north-south division in the geographical landscape of the city.

The downtown business district once cen-tred around the Dewdney Trunk/Kingsway area and it was not until the arrival of the Lougheed Highway in 1950 that Port

Coquitlam began to experience growth.More retail stores and businesses started

up along Shaughnessy Street and, by the late 1960s, the old downtown was gone, the victim of urban renewal.

By this time, new subdivisions on Mary Hill, Citadel Heights, Birchland and Lincoln had PoCo’s population approaching 20,000.

The Shaughnessy Underpass (built 1962) meant motorists no longer had to wait at

the CPR crossing, and the Coast Meridian Overpass (built 2010), which spans the railway yards, connects Port Coquitlam’s north and south neighbourhoods.

Oldest person born in Port Coquitlam: Donald Campbell, born Dec. 28, 1913

PHOTOS COURTESY OF POCO HERITAGE SOCIETY

Left: Shipbuilding at the end of Pitt River Road in 1918. Right: The Shaughnessy on Lions Park.

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PORT COQUITLAM100Pioneers gave PoCo businesses & first mayorJames Mars was born in Howick, Scotland

on May 8 1870, one member of a family of five boys and two girls.

The Mars family emigrated to Canada in 1888 and James, at age 18, learned the skills needed to be a pioneer.

He was employed in Winnipeg on Lord Strathcona’s farm until 1892, then he moved west and found work logging in the woods around Tacoma, Wash.

In 1896, James Mars’ father Tom Mars had settled in Coquitlam with his family and James soon joined them to build a new life here.

Mars had various occupations until 1909, when he began a mercantile business with his brother Arthur, aptly named Mars Brothers and located on the corner of Kingsway Avenue and School House Road (now Mary Hill Road).

Mars was elected president of the Coquitlam Agricultural Society in 1910 and Reeve of Coquitlam in 1911.

Upon Port Coquitlam’s incorporation on March 7 1913, Mars was elected by acclama-tion as the city’s first mayor.

A month later, the city planned a lavish Inauguration party that took place on April 18.

It was quite a busy day for Mayor Mars, who began the proceedings at Junction School by presenting the schoolchildren with keepsake medallions.

He then led the parade across town to Aggie Park and took part in a tree-planting cer-emony there.

He later attended the inaugural banquet and spoke of his city’s bright future to the visiting dignitaries assembled.

Although he only served in office for one year, James Mars will forever be immortalized as Port Coquitlam’s first mayor.

Oldest person born prior to Port Coquitlam incorpo-ration: Margaret McLaren (Pollard), born March 5, 1913

LEFT: PHOTO COURTESY OF POCO HERITAGE SOCIETY; RIGHT: TRI-CITY NEWS FILE PHOTO

Left: James Mars, PoCo’s first mayor. Right: Len Traboulay, PoCo’s longest-serving mayor, who was in the top job for almost two decades.

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PORT COQUITLAM100Irvine a common name in early PoCo schoolsThe history of schools in Port Coquitlam

begins long before the city incorporated in 1913.

Junction School opened around 1890 on what is now Rowland Park on Wilson Avenue. Miss Belle Dixon was the school’s first teacher for about a dozen pupils, many of whom had to walk or ride in on horseback from as far away as Victoria Drive.

Robert Irvine followed Miss Dixon and taught from 1894 to 1899. When his daugh-ter Ada Irvine became principal in 1911, the school had about 100 pupils.

It was about this time that the population of the area began to swell with the expected eco-nomic boom and provisions had to be made to handle the overload. Before James Park School was built in 1913 on the city’s north side, a tent was erected on the site and a home on south-side Langan Avenue was also utilized.

The cornerstone for James Park School on Coquitlam Avenue was laid on Nov. 28, 1913, with the total cost of construction being $11,847. The modern state-of-the-art four class-room structure featured automatic heating and up-to-date indoor plumbing.

In the first years, only the two lower floors were utilized as an elementary school; in later years, the Port Coquitlam High School, with Grades 9 to 12, occupied the top floors until 1951.

The original James Park School was re-placed in 1963 with a low-level concrete struc-ture closer to Westminster Avenue and served the community until 2012, when the students packed up their books and moved next door to their brand new school.

Central School was built a year later at a cost of $27,934 and opened on Sept. 8, 1914. Located on Central Avenue just east of

Shaughnessy Street, the four-room school had Miss Irvine as the first principal, and she taught as well for the next 30 years. Irvine Elementary School, opened in 1969, was named in honour of the Irvine family.

Another well-known teacher was Hazel Trembath, who taught at Central as well as Viscount Alexander, and even at the old Aggie Hall due to overcrowding. Hazel Trembath Elementary School was opened in the Citadel Heights area in 1973 in her honour.

The aforementioned Viscount Alexander School was the first educational facility built in the city in over 37 years when it opened on Sept. 4, 1951 at a cost of $355,000 with Mr. Bill Brand as the first principal.

Other schools followed soon after, includ-ing Cedar Drive in 1955, Port Coquitlam High School (later Terry Fox secondary) on Wellington Avenue in 1959 and Mary Hill Elementary in 1963. In 2013, there are 19 Port Coquitlam public schools.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF POCO HERITAGE SOCIETY

Above: Students of Central School from 1914 to 1924 pose for a photo during a reunion in 1984. Above right: The cornerstone at Central. Below right: A newspaper clipping announcing the opening of a new school in 1959.

Oldest school: Central School, opened Sept. 8, 1914

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Port Coquitlam’s (and its neighbours’) population for the last century, from the BC Municipal Census 1921 to 2011: City 1921 1931 1941 1951 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001 2011

PoCo 1,178 1,312 1,539 3,232 8,111 19,560 27,535 36,773 51,257 56,342Coq. 2,734 4,871 7,949 15,697 29,053 53,073 61,027 84,021 112,890 126,456PoMo 1,030 1,260 1,512 2,246 4,789 7,021 11,649 15,754 20,847 27,512

– source: bcstats.gov.bc.ca

10 key dATes In POCO hIsTORy1913 — The City of Port Coquitlam is incorporated

1920 — Fire consumes half the business district along Dewdney Trunk

1942 — Local blackouts and air raid drills bring WW2 closer to home

1948 — Flood of the century inundates much of western part of PoCo

1950 — Opening of Lougheed Highway brings more population

1957 — Mary Hill Subdivision brings new growth and density

1962 — Shaughnessy underpass under the CP Rail line opens

1980 — Hometown hero Terry Fox begins his Marathon of Hope

2001 — Pickton investigation begins

2010 — Coast Meridian Overpass opensPHOTO COURTESY OF POCO HERITAGE SOCIETY

Shaughnessy Street in downtown Port Coquitlam during the 1960s.

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PORT COQUITLAM100Fox: PoCo’s hometown hero & a national heroIn September 2012, as the academic year

got underway, Fred Fox spoke at his alma mater about the legacy of his brother, for

whom the high school is named.Fred had recently gone through the pages of

his parents’ old photo albums and uncovered early scenes of his family living in Winnipeg, Man., and Surrey and PoCo. He showed the Terry Fox secondary school kids snapshots of him and Terry in the 1960s at Christmas, dressed alike by their mother, and of Terry blowing out the candles on his 21st birthday cake.

Fred was eager to share his memories of Terry, whom he described as an average kid with a big heart and strong will to succeed — and whom later became an international hero.

“An average kid” is how many people re-member the curly-haired young man with the wide smile who tried to run across the country in 1980 to raise $1 from every Canadian in order to beat cancer, a disease that took part of his leg in 1977 and would claim his life in 1981.

People such as his school sport coaches — Bob McGill, Bruce Moore, Fred Tinck and Terri Fleming — and SFU basketball coach Lorne Douglas, as well as friends Doug Alward and Rick Hansen often talk about Terry’s unrelent-ing drive.

“Terry never quit,” Fred Fox said.But it was during his Marathon of Hope that

Terry was forced to relent. He had been fight-ing back the pain in his body, said Fred Fox who saw Terry twice on the road in mid-1980.

In 2010, a year before her death, Betty Fox recalled the day Terry called her from Thunder Bay, Ont., to tell her the cancer had returned; he would have to stop running and return home to treat the illness that had spread to his lungs.

“It was devastating,” Betty told The Tri-City

News. “That wasn’t supposed to happen. He would’ve made it all the way, but... darn.”

Canadians rallied and, in February 1981, five months before he died, Terry’s dream came true as $24 million had been collected — $1 for every Canadian.

And that September, 300,000 people took part in the first Terry Fox Run at 760 sites, rais-ing $3.5 million.

Today, there are still hundreds of Terry Fox Run sites around the world — including four in the Tri-Cities: the Hometown Run in PoCo as well as events on the same day in Coquitlam, Port Moody and Anmore — as well as thou-sands of school runs across Canada.

To date, the Terry Fox Foundation has raised more than $600 million for cancer research, the largest amount in the world for an orga-nization named after an athlete. And “Terry’s Team Members” carry his torch, speaking at schools and raising money for the foundation. They also continue to marvel at his achieve-ment of running a marathon a day on one leg.

“It was almost like it was built in him that, ‘I’ve only got a short time to do this,’” Alward told The News in 2005 before the Run’s 25th anniversary. “I guess it was kind of naive to think he could do a marathon a day for 143 days. Now, I know it’s impossible. It’s just phe-nomenal that his body was able to endure that mentally and physically for so long.”

FILE PHOTO BY CRAIG HODGE

Terry Fox launched a cancer campaign in 1980 that is still vibrant today. More photos, pg. C9.

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TRI-CITY NEWS FILE PHOTOS

Terry Fox Runs are held in hundreds of locations all over the world, from (above) Kabul, Afghanistan, where Canadian soldiers have run to conquer cancer to Port Coquitlam (below and right), where the Hometown Run draws thousands every year.

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PoCo’s biggest annual party started as picnicThe 90th Port Coquitlam May Day takes

place this year — and it all started as a school picnic by a river.

The first local observance of that old English tradition began in 1916, when James Park school principal Enid Cox and teacher Wynter Maxwell decided to have their own May Day in Port Coquitlam since many people could not travel to New Westminster, which had held a

May Day celebration since 1870.Seven years later, in 1923, Women’s Institute

president Christina Routley came up with the idea of having Central school come on board with James Park and the first official commu-nity May Day was held by the Coquitlam River on Marshall Island. The May Queen that year was Evelyn Mars, a descendent of well-known pioneer Donald McLean. The next year’s event

featured the first maypole dance, the ribbons tied to the woodshed out back.

In 1925, the Women’s Institute took over the organization of PoCo’s May Day, something it would do for many years, with many long hours spent decorating cars and bikes and horse-drawn wagons to create floats for the parade.

Oldest business: PoCo Building Supply, founded in 1921 by Roger Galer (it’s still owned by the Galer family)

PHOTOs COURTEsY OF POCO HERITAGE sOCIETY

Left: The May Queen and her royal party at Port Coquitlam May Day in 1963. Right: Children dance around the May Pole during May Day in 1929.

see POCO MAY DAY, page C11

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Mayor Greg Moore and his Family wish Port Coquitlam a Happy Centennial Celebration!

Greg Moore, Mayor of Port Coquitlamw. www.gregmoore.caf. www.facebook.com/gregmooredotcat. www.twitter.com/gregmooredotca

Port Coquitlam Incorporation Parade, Shaughnessy St., April 18, 1913Picture courtesy of Port Coquitlam Heritage Society

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TOP LEFT: PHOTO COURTESY OF POCO HERITAGE SOCIETY; ABOVE RIGHT: TRI-CITY NEWS FILE PHOTO

Top left: The May Day royal party in 1932. Above: Royal Canadian Legion members march in the 2010 May Day parade. The parade annually draws thousands to downtown PoCo.

In those days, the May Day parade would start at Essondale, although technically in Coquitlam, but was “adopted,” as so many PoCo people were employed at the hospital and whose school had an entry in the may-pole dancing. The parade would wind its way along Dewdney Trunk Road and end up at the Aggie Hall grounds, on the city’s northside. The procession would stop briefly at the War Memorial Cenotaph, when it was located where McMitchell Park is now, and pay their

respects to PoCo’s fallen soldiers.As the city grew, so did May Day, from a

one-day event to a weekend, then later to a week-long celebration over two weekends. The parade no longer winds its way to the old Aggie Hall, which was demolished in 1976, and the cenotaph is now located in front of city hall on Shaughnessy Street, where the parade passes now.

A lot has changed over the last 90 years, but one thing remains constant: the time and effort that the citizens of Port Coquitlam, young and old, put into its May Day celebrations.

continued from page C10

PoCo May Day at first was a one-day event

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PORT COQUITLAM100Long history of PoCo sporting achievementPort Coquitlam boasts a long, rich history

of sporting involvement and achieve-ment, including not only Canada’s

national winter sport — hockey — but also its national summer sport — lacrosse — as well as soccer and baseball.

The Dewdney Baseball League operated between 1919 and 1962 and pitted teams from Port Coquitlam against some of the finest men’s squads from around the Lower Mainland. Ruth McKenzie grew up in Port Coquitlam during those early years and re-called baseball as”the sport that mattered in Port Coquitlam.”

In the glory years of the 1950s and early ’60s, the local squad often finished atop the standings and won its share of championships.

The Port Coquitlam team’s roster included brothers Bob and Doug Rooney, and Frank and Ernie Nick, plus Bill Streifel and Ken Routley, to name just a few.

One of the pitching standouts was Fred Sabatine, who in 1956 received the season’s MVP award after losing only one of 17 games. Morley Deans, John Kabatoff and John Jeeves also pitched that year, and the team won the Dewdney League Championship the following year, 1957.

Doug Madden was Fred Sabatine’s catcher through most of those years and remembers him pitching back-to-back games on consecu-tive days against the Central Park team from Burnaby during the playoffs. The Burnaby team’s big slugger was Bill Kinder, who Doug recalled “could whack the ball right out of the park but couldn’t touch Fred’s pitches through-out the games” — and the PoCo team was victorious.

Three years later in 1960, the Port Coquitlam team travelled north to Quesnel and defeated

the Summerland Macs 8-4 to capture the Labour Day Tournament held there. In the de-ciding game, pitcher Sabatine helped his own cause by getting on base and was brought in by Bob Rooney’s single. The semi-final game that advanced PoCo to the final had pitcher Morley Deans taming the always-tough Kelowna Labatts team that had won the last three previous tournaments. The team cel-ebrated their victory just as the skies opened up and the rain poured down.

Fast-forward half a century or so and you’ll find Sabatine still involved with organizing local sports in the community long after his retirement from CP Rail in 1989. Deans spent 35 years with the Forest Service before retiring in 1996 and Doug Madden had a long career with the PoCo Fire Department before calling it quits and enjoying the quiet life at Logan Lake.

Their memories of playing baseball together years ago have stayed with them all their lives.

ABOVE: PHOTO COURTESY OF POCO HERITAGE SOCIETY; RIGHT: TRI-CITY NEWS FILE PHOTO

Above: Port Coquitlam’s championship baseball team in 1957. Right: Lacrosse has long been a popular sport for spectators and young athletes in Port Coquitlam.

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PORT COQUITLAM100CPR’s rail yard made PoCo a company townThe entry of British Columbia into

Confederation in 1871 was achieved with the promise that a transcontinental

railway would be built to link the new province with the rest of Canada.

Soon after the railway’s mainline reached Port Moody in 1886, a branch line south to New Westminster was opened. Where the railway tracks diverged, just west of the Coquitlam River, a small community named Westminster Junction began to take shape.

There is no doubt the Canadian Pacific Railway had the biggest influence on the his-tory and development of Port Coquitlam over the last 100 years.

Its decision to develop 500 acres of flat farm-land into the largest marshalling yard west of Calgary in 1911 helped spur the rapid growth and development in the area. This interest led Westminster Junction to the decision to in-corporate in March of 1913 as the City of Port Coquitlam.

For many years, the title “company town” was quite accurate when applied to PoCo as most of the workers in the railroad shops and roundhouse, as well as the crews that ran the trains, lived in the area.

The neighbourhoods to the north (Flint Street) and south (Langan Avenue) soon sprang up, with new construction of houses and roads for these workers. It was said that in Port Coquitlam you either worked at Essondale (later known as Riverview Hospital) or the CPR.

The local passenger train service was vital for commuting to or from Vancouver, New Westminster and the Fraser Valley. Local mer-chants would pick up their deliveries of goods down at the CP Rail team track by the station with horse and wagon, long before the days of

congested highways and truck trailers. The Shaughnessy Street crossing drew the

ire of residents for years as CP trains would block traffic as they shunted back and forth through town. It wasn’t until December 1962 that an underpass was built to alleviate this problem.

Times changed and the world moved for-ward, people became less-dependent on the railways for travel with the mass-production of the automobile after the Second World War.

The airline industry gave a faster alternative to the passenger train and could whisk a traveller across the country in hours, rather than days.

Today, Canadian Pacific Railway in Port Coquitlam is a vital transportation corridor that links the port of Vancouver and the Lower Mainland to markets in Canada, the United States and around the world.

The old steam engine’s shrill whistle on a cold moonlit evening may be lost forever but still exists in Port Coquitlam’s history.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF POCO HERITAGE SOCIETY

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In the spring of 1914, two lots on McAllister Avenue were purchased for $2,000 apiece and local contractor Charles Davies was hired to build the new hall.

The brick for the building came from Nanaimo and the “veronastone” was to be sup-plied from the Hynes Stone and Staff Co., a local business.

The building was finished by the fall of 1914 at a cost of around $19,000, which the city had borrowed, anticipating an economic boom that never came. In fact, the second floor remained a dusty storeroom until finished in the 1960s.

During the Second World War, the ironwork was removed from the roof in order to install an air raid siren, which could be heard well over two miles away.

Up until 1972, the RCMP and its predeces-sors, the B.C. Provincial Police, used the base-ment as their headquarters and jail.

The city library, under the leadership of librarian Annette LaFleur, was also a tenant in the basement until a new facility was built at Leigh Square in 1962.

By 1987, work had begun on a new three-storey addition to the hall, with the new en-trance now facing Shaughnessy Street. Still visible today is the city’s original coat of arms, which sits proudly above the old entrance off McAllister. The motto reads: “By commerce and industry we prosper.”

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