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Sunbury Landing
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Sunbury Public School
3
Second Sunbury School
4
Sunbury Hall
5
St. Mungo Cannery
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St. Mungo and Glenrose
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sites in Delta.
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Using this Passport
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Archaeological Sites
7
Riverview Market
8
Glenrose Cannery
Residences —
River Road, Sunbury
ca. 1938
9
Nesbitt and Johnson
10
Stegavik and Iverson
11
Stokkeland and Larsen
12
Gunderson
13
Annieville School
14
Trinity Lutheran Church
15
Annieville Community
16
17
Annieville Park
Gunderson Slough
For further information
please contact the
Community Planning &
Development Department
Delta Municipal Hall
(Delta Museum and Archives after 1969)
ca. 1914
The Corporation of Delta
4500 Clarence Taylor Cres
Delta, British Columbia
V4K 3E2
4858 Delta Street
Delta, British Columbia
V4K 2T8
Delta Museum and Archives
TELEPHONE
TELEPHONE
604.946.3380
604.946.9322
FAX
EMAIL
604.946.4148
info@deltamuseum.ca
EMAIL
WEB
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www.deltamuseum.ca
WEB
www.corp.delta.bc.ca
Photos courtesy of the
Delta Museum & Archives
HISTORIC
SITES
IN DELTA
VOLUME II
Historic Sunbury & Annieville
BRITISH COLUMBIA
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5
St. Mungo Cannery
6
St. Mungo and Glenrose
Archaeological Sites
7
Riverview Market
8
Glenrose Cannery
9
Residences —
(a) Nesbitt; (b) Johnson
10
(a) Stegavik; (b) Iverson
11
(a) Stokkeland; (b) Larsen
12
Gunderson
13
Annieville School
14
Trinity Lutheran Church
15
Annieville Community
16
Annieville Park
17
Gunderson Slough
Cover photos:
• Fishing boats at Annieville ca.1900
• Annieville Cannery ca.1905
• Annieville Park and 112th Street, 1952
• Annieville 1905
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Delta
River Road, ca. 1906
This map ca.1900 identifies Annieville and
Sunbury and shows the district lots
(preemption before 1873) oriented
to the river and the township
lots after 1873 oriented
to the grid.
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The second edition of the
passport focuses on two of
Delta's special communities,
Sunbury and Annieville which
are located in North Delta.
More information on these
sites can be found at the
Delta Museum and Archives.
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You are invited to join Delta
in celebrating the rich and
varied history of our
community, a history
reaching back to the earliest
days of British Columbia and
one we share with our
neighbours, the Tsawwassen
First Nation.
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The Delta Heritage
Advisory Commission is
pleased to present the second
in a series of “passports” that
highlight and celebrate many
of the Historic Sites of Delta.
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Wharves and net sheds along the shore in Sunbury, ca. 1939
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8655 River Road
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The fishing and farming families
of Sunbury travelled mainly by
river in the early days, even after
River Road was built in 1904.
Steamboats like the “SS Transfer”
landed at the public wharf at this
site in Lower Sunbury. A saltery
on the wharf was used to
prepare salmon for
the Japanese
markets in the
1930s.
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Two Japanese Canadian boys in
front of the saltery, ca. 1939
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HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
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Sunbury Public School ca. 1935
A C I S
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a s
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Alexander R d
Sunbury Public School was built
in 1902 for a growing community
of fishers and farmers living along
the Fraser River from Tilbury
Island (Lower Sunbury) to the
North Delta highlands (Upper
Sunbury). Most of the children
registered at the school were of
Scandinavian, Japanese and
Finnish origin.
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Rive
Aerial view of Gunderson Slough 1964
ad
NORTH
9036 River Road
Teacher
E
studen dward Capil
ts
la
School, in front of Su nd
nbury
1934.
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
The spit was industrialized in
the 1960s; a site for sawmills
and the Delta Alaska Terminal.
The road “Alaska Way”
follows the old rail lines built to
the terminal, which carried trains
to and from Whittier, Alaska. A
parking area and sandy beach are
located at the south end of “Alaska
Way” and Gunderson spit.
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
Net raft
s
dating
from
the 193
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Second Sunbury
School
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The dredge King Edward VII moves into
Gunderson Slough. The river in front of
Annieville was first dredged in the mid 1930s.
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IDGE
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I S L A N D
Nordel W a
The sand spit in front of Annieville
Cannery was not present when
the cannery was first built in
1878. The natural action of the
river, together with man-made
structures built north of
Annieville, slowly changed the
shoreline and created Gunderson
Slough. The local fishing fleet
found shelter and moorage in
the slough. Fishing boats, net
sheds, and boat building and
other marine supply operations
still line either side of Gunderson
Slough.
y
NORTH
Gunderson Slough
NORTH
9570 River Road
Gregory Residence, built
ca.1905, one of the last
surviving riverside houses
which were clustered
along the river bank and
River Road.
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
nta
leme
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Students attended the school at
this site from 1950 to 1978. Near
here in this area of Upper Sunbury
was Silda's General Store (9829
River Rd.) and Valhalla Café (9889
River Rd), and across the road is
“Gregory House”, built ca.1905.
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Sunbury Hall
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George Watkins and his bulldozer
clearing brush 1952.
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social gatherings.
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Raising the rafters at the new Sunbury Hall, 1962.
Volunteers built Sunbury Hall in
1962/63. This is Sunbury's
second community hall, which
replaced the earlier Bayview Hall
on River Road. The community
hall was where people raised
funds for community activities,
voiced political protests and held
NORTH
10409 Dunlop Road
Clifford Iverson and David Johnson in front of
Sunbury’s Bayview Hall, built in 1919.
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
In 1950 the work of clearing
the property began. A
Women's Auxiliary was
formed to raise funds by
holding garden parties, raffles
and bingo games. By 1952
a park access road (112th
Street) had been cleared
and graded. Gradually the
area became useable as
an open air kitchen, ball
diamond, wading pool,
and new trees were
added. Annieville Park was turned
over to the Municipality of Delta
in June 1958 in an impressive
ceremony held in the park. The
Association continued to raise funds
for landscaping and equipment
until it disbanded in 1970.
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
Photographs and
article are from
the Annieville and
District Playground
Association
scrapbook.
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Cannery
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St. Mungo Cannery, 1979
Volunteers take a break from work at the side of the park access road (112th Street),1952.
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89 Ave
NORTH
Annieville Park
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No
NORTH
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10215 River Road
Women's Auxiliary garden party (and silly hat
contest), raising funds for the park, ca.1952.
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
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Annieville Park, the first park in
North Delta, was created by
Annieville fishermen who
wanted to provide recreational
facilities for their families. An 8
acre parcel of forested land was
purchased in 1949 by the
Annieville and District
Playground Association.
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HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
St. Mungo Cannery opened in
1899. The cannery, built and
owned by St. Mungo Fish
Processing Company of
Glasgow, Scotland, was named
after Glasgow's patron saint. The
plant operated under several
different owners until 1957
when the cannery section was
moved to Steveston. The
buildings were then used as a
net loft by B.C. Packers. In 1981
the site was acquired for
construction of the Alex Fraser
Bridge and the buildings
demolished.
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Community
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St. Mungo and Glenrose
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Annieville ca.1908/09 after the building of the
CN railway and relocation of River Road past
Annieville Cannery.
Four zoomorphic objects; carved antler
ornaments
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to
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lo
Mungo gical dig at
St.
, 1983
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
114 S
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Archaeological deposits stretch
over 1000 metres along the
Fraser River bank between St.
Mungo and Glenrose cannery
sites. The middens at these sites
contain a record of more than
5,000 years of salmon fishing
and habitation by ancestors of
the Coast Salish.
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The community of Annieville
began with the establishment of
Finlayson and Birrell's salmon
canneries in 1878. In the 1890s
immigrants from Norway settled
here and made Annieville their
home. Fishing and work in the
canneries set the pattern of life
until the 1940s. Annieville was
also the site of other early
industries, such as farming,
brick making and mink
ranching. Annieville's close
ties with its past can still
be seen in the homes,
institutions, and
traditions of the
community today.
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Riverview Market
PO
Trinity Lutheran
Church
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14
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PA S S
Chur
ch de
tail
Riverview Market 1979
Trinity Lutheran Church, ca. 1935
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90 Av
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90 Ave
St
Ru
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NORTH
11040 River Road
NORTH
r
No
d
10276 River Road
Sunday School, ca. 1955
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
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W
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Ro
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nt
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Fr
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ve
r
Te
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Kenda le Way
Noru
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r
Dr
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The second Trinity Lutheran
Church building in Annieville
was dedicated May 22, 1910.
The church served a
congregation that lived in New
Westminster, Brownsville,
Annieville and Sunbury. A
cemetery once bordered the
south side of
the church,
but it was
relocated to
Brooke Road
in the 1970s.
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
The Riverview Market store, gas
station and garden market was
owned and operated by the
Wikjord family from
approximately 1949 to 1959.
The Wikjord family lived behind
the store in the Johnson
Residence built in 1929. William
and Irene May operated the
store from 1960 to 1975. The
store was later used as a gift
shop.
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Annieville
School
PO
Glenrose
Cannery
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PA S S
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Annieville Public School, ca.1910
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HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
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Du
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NORTH
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W
Riv e
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r
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r
No
92A A
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Norum
R
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10453 River Road
Glen
ro
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1911
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uran
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Kenda le Way
R
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Ro
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Fr
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Cannery operations began at this
site as a fishermen's co-operative
in 1896 under the name Fraser
River Industrial Cannery. It closed
in 1901 and reopened as
Glenrose Cannery in 1909.
Currently owned and operated
by Johnston Packing Co.,
the plant still
serves as a fish
handling
depot.
NORTH
11040 River Road
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
90 Ave
In 1906 the people of Annieville
petitioned the Delta School
Board for a school in their
community. Miss Ella Hoffard,
the first teacher, lived in New
Westminster and rowed across
the river (or walked across the
ice) to work each day. Annieville
School, located on the same
site as the current Trinity
Lutheran Church, was the last
one room school in Delta,
closing in 1956. The building
was demolished in 1963.
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Nesbitt & Johnson
Residences
PO
Gunderson
Residence
e
12
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•
PA S S
(A) The Nesbitt Residence was
built by the Glenrose Cannery
in 1939 for their bookkeeper
Richard Nesbitt. The house
which sits outside the cannery
complex on the opposite side
of the railway tracks, remained
the property of the cannery
until 1946 when Johnston
Fishing and Packing (the
successor of Glenrose)
subdivided the land and sold
it to Nesbitt and his wife Phyllis.
Nesbitt Residence
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iv
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r
B
A
92A A
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ain
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St
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Kenda le Way
112 S
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r Ro
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NORTH
11128 River Road
NORTH
De
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Al
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96 Ave
Dawson Cr
SURREY
DELTA
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R iver Ro
The Gunderson Residence, built
in 1902, is set on the rise of the
hill and enjoys a river view. It
was built by Jacob Gunderson
five years after he arrived from
Norway, and was one of the
first permanent homes
to be built in
North Delta.
Johnson Residence
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A. 10455 River Road
B. 10525 River Road
The Gunderson family
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
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HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
(B) The Johnson Residence is a
well maintained, circa 1929,
gable-roofed house, influenced
by the Craftsman style. It has
saddlebag shed dormers,
triangular eave brackets, and a
gabled front entry porch. It has
a view from the crest of a steep
hill, over the river. Set in a
mature landscape, it was built
by Nels Johnson, one of the
early Norwegian settlers.
Delta
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River Ro
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Larsen Residence
Rd
NORTH
NORTH
A. 10670 River Road
A. 11096 River Road
B. 11090 River Road
B. 11102 River Road
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
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Iverson Residence
Stokkeland Residence
114 S
Stegavik Residence
11
(A) The Stokkeland Residence
dates from 1913 and was built
for Olaf Pedersen Stokkeland.
Norwegian-born Stokkeland
immigrated to British Columbia
in 1907 where he took up
employment as a shipwright.
The residence is significant for
its architecture, which reflects
the style of other houses in the
area from this time period.
112 S
t
(A) The Stegavik Residence is a
modest but intact early
Craftsman bungalow, set back
on its lot at the rise of the hill.
Typical features include
triangular eave brackets, the
shed dormer and the mixture
of shingles with horizontal
lapped siding with corner
boards. An additional feature
is the decorative muntins in the
wood frame windows.
(B) The Iverson Residence is a
Craftsman style residence circa
1913, featuring a front
verandah, side entry porch and
leaded feature windows. It is
clad in wide lapped siding like
the Trinity Lutheran Church
nearby and is part of a visual
ensemble with the adjacent
property.
Stokkeland &
Larsen Residences
PO
Stegavik & Iverson
Residences
e
10
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(B) The Larsen Residence, circa
1905, was built a few years after
the Gunderson Residence
which was one of the earliest
homes in the area. It was built
by Pete Peterson, a Norwegian
builder, for Knute Larsen. The
lumber for the house came
from one large tree cut down
on the site, which was then
shipped to New Westminster
to be sawn. It features a
commanding view of the river
from its location at the rise of
the hill.
Delta
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SURREY
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96 Ave
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92A A
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River Ro
G und
Larsen Residence
Rd
NORTH
NORTH
A. 10670 River Road
A. 11096 River Road
B. 11090 River Road
B. 11102 River Road
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
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t
Iverson Residence
Stokkeland Residence
114 S
Stegavik Residence
11
(A) The Stokkeland Residence
dates from 1913 and was built
for Olaf Pedersen Stokkeland.
Norwegian-born Stokkeland
immigrated to British Columbia
in 1907 where he took up
employment as a shipwright.
The residence is significant for
its architecture, which reflects
the style of other houses in the
area from this time period.
112 S
t
(A) The Stegavik Residence is a
modest but intact early
Craftsman bungalow, set back
on its lot at the rise of the hill.
Typical features include
triangular eave brackets, the
shed dormer and the mixture
of shingles with horizontal
lapped siding with corner
boards. An additional feature
is the decorative muntins in the
wood frame windows.
(B) The Iverson Residence is a
Craftsman style residence circa
1913, featuring a front
verandah, side entry porch and
leaded feature windows. It is
clad in wide lapped siding like
the Trinity Lutheran Church
nearby and is part of a visual
ensemble with the adjacent
property.
Stokkeland &
Larsen Residences
PO
Stegavik & Iverson
Residences
e
10
Heritag
(B) The Larsen Residence, circa
1905, was built a few years after
the Gunderson Residence
which was one of the earliest
homes in the area. It was built
by Pete Peterson, a Norwegian
builder, for Knute Larsen. The
lumber for the house came
from one large tree cut down
on the site, which was then
shipped to New Westminster
to be sawn. It features a
commanding view of the river
from its location at the rise of
the hill.
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Nesbitt & Johnson
Residences
PO
Gunderson
Residence
e
12
Heritag
•
PA S S
(A) The Nesbitt Residence was
built by the Glenrose Cannery
in 1939 for their bookkeeper
Richard Nesbitt. The house
which sits outside the cannery
complex on the opposite side
of the railway tracks, remained
the property of the cannery
until 1946 when Johnston
Fishing and Packing (the
successor of Glenrose)
subdivided the land and sold
it to Nesbitt and his wife Phyllis.
Nesbitt Residence
u gh
e
iv
R
se
r
B
A
92A A
ve
ain
t
St
M
S lo
Rd
a
Fr
Kenda le Way
112 S
Gu
nd
es
ad
r Ro
ve
i
R
NORTH
11128 River Road
NORTH
De
l
w o od Dr
Dr
Norum
r
ce
rra
Te
ers
on
Al
as
k
aW
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96 Ave
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The Gunderson Residence, built
in 1902, is set on the rise of the
hill and enjoys a river view. It
was built by Jacob Gunderson
five years after he arrived from
Norway, and was one of the
first permanent homes
to be built in
North Delta.
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HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
(B) The Johnson Residence is a
well maintained, circa 1929,
gable-roofed house, influenced
by the Craftsman style. It has
saddlebag shed dormers,
triangular eave brackets, and a
gabled front entry porch. It has
a view from the crest of a steep
hill, over the river. Set in a
mature landscape, it was built
by Nels Johnson, one of the
early Norwegian settlers.
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Glenrose
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Cannery operations began at this
site as a fishermen's co-operative
in 1896 under the name Fraser
River Industrial Cannery. It closed
in 1901 and reopened as
Glenrose Cannery in 1909.
Currently owned and operated
by Johnston Packing Co.,
the plant still
serves as a fish
handling
depot.
NORTH
11040 River Road
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
90 Ave
In 1906 the people of Annieville
petitioned the Delta School
Board for a school in their
community. Miss Ella Hoffard,
the first teacher, lived in New
Westminster and rowed across
the river (or walked across the
ice) to work each day. Annieville
School, located on the same
site as the current Trinity
Lutheran Church, was the last
one room school in Delta,
closing in 1956. The building
was demolished in 1963.
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Trinity Lutheran
Church
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Riverview Market 1979
Trinity Lutheran Church, ca. 1935
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11040 River Road
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10276 River Road
Sunday School, ca. 1955
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
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The second Trinity Lutheran
Church building in Annieville
was dedicated May 22, 1910.
The church served a
congregation that lived in New
Westminster, Brownsville,
Annieville and Sunbury. A
cemetery once bordered the
south side of
the church,
but it was
relocated to
Brooke Road
in the 1970s.
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
The Riverview Market store, gas
station and garden market was
owned and operated by the
Wikjord family from
approximately 1949 to 1959.
The Wikjord family lived behind
the store in the Johnson
Residence built in 1929. William
and Irene May operated the
store from 1960 to 1975. The
store was later used as a gift
shop.
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Annieville
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St. Mungo and Glenrose
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Annieville ca.1908/09 after the building of the
CN railway and relocation of River Road past
Annieville Cannery.
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ornaments
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St.
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HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
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Archaeological deposits stretch
over 1000 metres along the
Fraser River bank between St.
Mungo and Glenrose cannery
sites. The middens at these sites
contain a record of more than
5,000 years of salmon fishing
and habitation by ancestors of
the Coast Salish.
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The community of Annieville
began with the establishment of
Finlayson and Birrell's salmon
canneries in 1878. In the 1890s
immigrants from Norway settled
here and made Annieville their
home. Fishing and work in the
canneries set the pattern of life
until the 1940s. Annieville was
also the site of other early
industries, such as farming,
brick making and mink
ranching. Annieville's close
ties with its past can still
be seen in the homes,
institutions, and
traditions of the
community today.
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Cannery
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Annieville
Park
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St. Mungo Cannery, 1979
Volunteers take a break from work at the side of the park access road (112th Street),1952.
94 Ave
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Annieville Park
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10215 River Road
Women's Auxiliary garden party (and silly hat
contest), raising funds for the park, ca.1952.
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
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Annieville Park, the first park in
North Delta, was created by
Annieville fishermen who
wanted to provide recreational
facilities for their families. An 8
acre parcel of forested land was
purchased in 1949 by the
Annieville and District
Playground Association.
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HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
St. Mungo Cannery opened in
1899. The cannery, built and
owned by St. Mungo Fish
Processing Company of
Glasgow, Scotland, was named
after Glasgow's patron saint. The
plant operated under several
different owners until 1957
when the cannery section was
moved to Steveston. The
buildings were then used as a
net loft by B.C. Packers. In 1981
the site was acquired for
construction of the Alex Fraser
Bridge and the buildings
demolished.
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George Watkins and his bulldozer
clearing brush 1952.
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social gatherings.
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Raising the rafters at the new Sunbury Hall, 1962.
Volunteers built Sunbury Hall in
1962/63. This is Sunbury's
second community hall, which
replaced the earlier Bayview Hall
on River Road. The community
hall was where people raised
funds for community activities,
voiced political protests and held
NORTH
10409 Dunlop Road
Clifford Iverson and David Johnson in front of
Sunbury’s Bayview Hall, built in 1919.
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
In 1950 the work of clearing
the property began. A
Women's Auxiliary was
formed to raise funds by
holding garden parties, raffles
and bingo games. By 1952
a park access road (112th
Street) had been cleared
and graded. Gradually the
area became useable as
an open air kitchen, ball
diamond, wading pool,
and new trees were
added. Annieville Park was turned
over to the Municipality of Delta
in June 1958 in an impressive
ceremony held in the park. The
Association continued to raise funds
for landscaping and equipment
until it disbanded in 1970.
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
Photographs and
article are from
the Annieville and
District Playground
Association
scrapbook.
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School
PO
The dredge King Edward VII moves into
Gunderson Slough. The river in front of
Annieville was first dredged in the mid 1930s.
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Gunderson
Slough
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The sand spit in front of Annieville
Cannery was not present when
the cannery was first built in
1878. The natural action of the
river, together with man-made
structures built north of
Annieville, slowly changed the
shoreline and created Gunderson
Slough. The local fishing fleet
found shelter and moorage in
the slough. Fishing boats, net
sheds, and boat building and
other marine supply operations
still line either side of Gunderson
Slough.
y
NORTH
Gunderson Slough
NORTH
9570 River Road
Gregory Residence, built
ca.1905, one of the last
surviving riverside houses
which were clustered
along the river bank and
River Road.
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
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Students attended the school at
this site from 1950 to 1978. Near
here in this area of Upper Sunbury
was Silda's General Store (9829
River Rd.) and Valhalla Café (9889
River Rd), and across the road is
“Gregory House”, built ca.1905.
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Sunbury Public School ca. 1935
A C I S
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Alexander R d
Sunbury Public School was built
in 1902 for a growing community
of fishers and farmers living along
the Fraser River from Tilbury
Island (Lower Sunbury) to the
North Delta highlands (Upper
Sunbury). Most of the children
registered at the school were of
Scandinavian, Japanese and
Finnish origin.
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Rive
Aerial view of Gunderson Slough 1964
ad
NORTH
9036 River Road
Teacher
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studen dward Capil
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School, in front of Su nd
nbury
1934.
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
The spit was industrialized in
the 1960s; a site for sawmills
and the Delta Alaska Terminal.
The road “Alaska Way”
follows the old rail lines built to
the terminal, which carried trains
to and from Whittier, Alaska. A
parking area and sandy beach are
located at the south end of “Alaska
Way” and Gunderson spit.
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
Net raft
s
dating
from
the 193
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Wharves and net sheds along the shore in Sunbury, ca. 1939
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Alexander R d
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The fishing and farming families
of Sunbury travelled mainly by
river in the early days, even after
River Road was built in 1904.
Steamboats like the “SS Transfer”
landed at the public wharf at this
site in Lower Sunbury. A saltery
on the wharf was used to
prepare salmon for
the Japanese
markets in the
1930s.
•
Two Japanese Canadian boys in
front of the saltery, ca. 1939
PA S S
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
HISTORIC SITES IN DELTA
Heritag
Sunbury Landing
2
Sunbury Public School
3
Second Sunbury School
4
Sunbury Hall
5
St. Mungo Cannery
6
St. Mungo and Glenrose
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PO
•
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sites in Delta.
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invites you to explore these historically significant
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The Delta Heritage Advisory Commission
Delta
Using this Passport
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PA S S
Archaeological Sites
7
Riverview Market
8
Glenrose Cannery
Residences —
River Road, Sunbury
ca. 1938
9
Nesbitt and Johnson
10
Stegavik and Iverson
11
Stokkeland and Larsen
12
Gunderson
13
Annieville School
14
Trinity Lutheran Church
15
Annieville Community
16
17
Annieville Park
Gunderson Slough
For further information
please contact the
Community Planning &
Development Department
Delta Municipal Hall
(Delta Museum and Archives after 1969)
ca. 1914
The Corporation of Delta
4500 Clarence Taylor Cres
Delta, British Columbia
V4K 3E2
4858 Delta Street
Delta, British Columbia
V4K 2T8
Delta Museum and Archives
TELEPHONE
TELEPHONE
604.946.3380
604.946.9322
FAX
EMAIL
604.946.4148
info@deltamuseum.ca
EMAIL
WEB
heritage@corp.delta.bc.ca
www.deltamuseum.ca
WEB
www.corp.delta.bc.ca
Photos courtesy of the
Delta Museum & Archives
HISTORIC
SITES
IN DELTA
VOLUME II
Historic Sunbury & Annieville
BRITISH COLUMBIA
PA S S
5
St. Mungo Cannery
6
St. Mungo and Glenrose
Archaeological Sites
7
Riverview Market
8
Glenrose Cannery
9
Residences —
(a) Nesbitt; (b) Johnson
10
(a) Stegavik; (b) Iverson
11
(a) Stokkeland; (b) Larsen
12
Gunderson
13
Annieville School
14
Trinity Lutheran Church
15
Annieville Community
16
Annieville Park
17
Gunderson Slough
Cover photos:
• Fishing boats at Annieville ca.1900
• Annieville Cannery ca.1905
• Annieville Park and 112th Street, 1952
• Annieville 1905
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Delta
River Road, ca. 1906
This map ca.1900 identifies Annieville and
Sunbury and shows the district lots
(preemption before 1873) oriented
to the river and the township
lots after 1873 oriented
to the grid.
96 ST
The second edition of the
passport focuses on two of
Delta's special communities,
Sunbury and Annieville which
are located in North Delta.
More information on these
sites can be found at the
Delta Museum and Archives.
•
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You are invited to join Delta
in celebrating the rich and
varied history of our
community, a history
reaching back to the earliest
days of British Columbia and
one we share with our
neighbours, the Tsawwassen
First Nation.
Heritag
e
The Delta Heritage
Advisory Commission is
pleased to present the second
in a series of “passports” that
highlight and celebrate many
of the Historic Sites of Delta.
Historic Site
Heritag
Sunbury Landing
2
Sunbury Public School
3
Second Sunbury School
4
Sunbury Hall
5
St. Mungo Cannery
6
St. Mungo and Glenrose
Heritag
e
1
PA S S
PO
•
Delta
sites in Delta.
PO
invites you to explore these historically significant
RT •
RT •
e
The Delta Heritage Advisory Commission
Delta
Using this Passport
•
PA S S
Archaeological Sites
7
Riverview Market
8
Glenrose Cannery
Residences —
River Road, Sunbury
ca. 1938
9
Nesbitt and Johnson
10
Stegavik and Iverson
11
Stokkeland and Larsen
12
Gunderson
13
Annieville School
14
Trinity Lutheran Church
15
Annieville Community
16
17
Annieville Park
Gunderson Slough
For further information
please contact the
Community Planning &
Development Department
Delta Municipal Hall
(Delta Museum and Archives after 1969)
ca. 1914
The Corporation of Delta
4500 Clarence Taylor Cres
Delta, British Columbia
V4K 3E2
4858 Delta Street
Delta, British Columbia
V4K 2T8
Delta Museum and Archives
TELEPHONE
TELEPHONE
604.946.3380
604.946.9322
FAX
EMAIL
604.946.4148
info@deltamuseum.ca
EMAIL
WEB
heritage@corp.delta.bc.ca
www.deltamuseum.ca
WEB
www.corp.delta.bc.ca
Photos courtesy of the
Delta Museum & Archives
HISTORIC
SITES
IN DELTA
VOLUME II
Historic Sunbury & Annieville
BRITISH COLUMBIA