By John MacKie, Vancouver Sun
In 1862, John Morton, Samuel Brighouse and William Hailstone were mocked for spending $555 on a big chunk of land squeezed between Burrard Inlet, English Bay and a pair of government reserves.
New Westminster was the main town on the B.C. mainland; only "three greenhorn Englishmen" would lay...
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The birth of a city, from humble beginnings as a two-block strip on the Gastown waterfront
