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Garden, James Ford

1847–1914

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Biographie

He was an engineer.

He was a surveyor in partnership with E.B. Hermon in 1886.

They surveyed a significant part of the original layout of Vancouver.

He was an Alderman in Vancouver BC.

He was the engineer who laid the track for the Vancouver Electric Railway and Light Co. Ltd.

He was elected as the Mayor of Vancouver BC 1898-1900.

In 1900-09 he was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.

He was instrumental in saving the big trees in Stanley Park in the so-called "Ludgate Affair".

Lieux nommés

Garden Drive in Vancouver BC)

Références

  • Kluckner, M. (1993)
  • MacKinnon, Donna-Jean. (1997) Mayors of Vancouver. In The Greater Vancouver Book: an urban encyclopedia. Ed. Chuck Davis. Vancouver BC: Linkman Press
  • Walker, Elizabeth (1999)

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