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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