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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1881)
54 THK WhST SHORE. June, i88i NEW WESTMINSTER, R. C. The city of New Westminster (sometimes called the Royal City ow ing to having received it name direct from the Queen) stands proudly on the right or north hank of Fraser river, immediately alove the junction of the north arm and fifteen mile in a north eatterly direction from the entrance projcr. The i(c was chosen by Col- appear to have been thoroughly in alli ance, for a more beautiful, convenient and commanding situation for a large city could not well have been desired. Occupying a gentle acclivity, having a southerly aipect, it commands a really magnificent view. The noble Fraser rolls seaward in sullen silence at its feet To the southwest lies, spread out like a panorama between it and the gulf of Georgia, an archipelago of tiful peaks called the " Golden Ears," which overshadow the dark green wa ters of Pitt Lake, and as the eye sweeps the horizon to the southward Mount Baker is seen towering far up in the sunlight if in the night per chance, belching forth smoke and flame while in the foreground lies, stretching out like sheet of glass, the " Queen's Reach," a magnificent stretch of water extending eight or nine miles, X ?1 0 LI W VI 1 i ' .I'll1 !,,' i llJihiil i f 1 llfl ST. ANN'S ACADEMY AT NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C. one (now General) Moody under special instructions from the Imperial Government, a the capital of British Columbia, at that date(iS59) a separate colony of the crown. In selecting the it General Moody was we are told, largely influenced by military consider tirna. Nature and the General would beautiful Hands of amazing fertility, while far away to the south rise the snowcapped peaks of the Olympian range, guttering in the tun. Looking northward and eastward, the hoary ncaus oi tne Cascade range stand out gainst the blue sky like giant sentinels, conspicuous amongst them the two beau- with a fairy-like island dividing it mid way. Such is a hasty sketch of the natural twauty of the situation. In natural advantages it is no leu favored. Fraser river takes its rise far up in the Rocky Mountains, some sil hundred miles from the coast, and as it pursues its laughing and frolicsome way
