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From: Pam Thomson <>
Subject: Re: [CAN-BC] Where is Moodyville in 1891 Census?
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 18:28:27 -0800
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Hi Eric,
I did a search for Moodyville as I know there are a lot of places named
after Moody, including Moody Park in New Westminster and the city of
Port Moody. It looks like Moodyville was where North Vancouver now is (
and I think I did know this and it's stored in my brain's "closet"- just
that a lot of other things are blocking its way! :-))

The Moodyville Mill was the biggest structure on the North Shore of
Burrard Inlet in 1886. It was a refuge for people escaping the great
Vancouver fire.
http://www.islandnet.com/~bcma/museums/ihg/ihg1.html

Searching the BC Archives at:
http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/cgi-bin/www2m
will give you a lot of information and visuals about Moodyville. And oh,
thanks, because I just discovered a feature at the BC archives that I
didn't know about! You can check a box on a Visual Record and it can be
a part of a contact sheet showing the pictures:
"Contact sheets are groups of thumbnail size images embedded into a
table, resulting from a search on the Visual Records Database.
Formatting of the contact sheet can be controlled by selecting the
various options below." For example-
http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/cgi-bin/www2i/.visual/img_med/dir_68/a_00397.gif
this should ( don't count on it though) give you an enlarged picture of Moodyville.
Pam
(always glad to learn something new- now if I only had some ancestors
from BC! )

Pam

"Eric A. Cottrell" wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I guess my ancestors liked to live in places that disappeared 8->.
>
> I finished the New Westminster Districts for the 1891 Census without
> finding Cottrells. I stopped when I reached the C (Vancouver City)
> districts.
>
> I then switched over to the 1881 and found John Austin in the
> 187 B (New Westminster North District) on Page 104. This was fun as the
> finding aid for the Canadian Census indicated that Moodyville was in the
> Coast of the Mainland District. So I search over of 12 of those first!
>
> One of the on-line BC lists (1875 voters list) has John Austin Cottrell
> listed as living in Moodyville.
>
> So exactly where was Moodyville? Did it disappear by the 1891 Census.
> If part of Vancouver are there any particular districts I should search?
> Also is there an index to the 1901 census? Or another Census?????
>
> I find I am getting lost as it seems the area has changed greatly.
>
> Trying to do left coast research on the right coast is fun!
>
> 73 Eric WB1HBU
>
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Pam Thomson in BC, Canada
Researching Fairweather & Todrick
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