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Moodyville (at the south end of Moody Avenue, now Moodyville Park), is the oldest settlement on Burrard Inlet, predating Vancouver; only New Westminster is the older non-native settlement in the region. Logging came to the virgin forests of Douglas Fir in North Vancouver, as sailing ships called in to load. A waterpowered sawmill was set up in the 1860s at Moodyville, by Sewell Moody. Subsequently, post offices, schools and a village sprang up. In time, the municipality of North Vancouver (which encompassed the entire North Shore from Deep Cove to Dundarave) was incorporated. In the 1880s, Arthur Heywood-Lonsdale and a relation James Pemberton Fell, made substantial investments in North Vancouver and in 1882 he financed the Moodyville investments. Several locations in the North Vancouver area are named after Lonsdale and his family.[1] The financial collapses of the 1890s and 1907 aggrieved the young city into bankruptcy. As a result of this, the separate areas of West Vancouver, and District of North Vancouver came into being, with the City only holding onto a small portion of its former area. Keith Road looking west, with Hollyburn Mtn in the distancePart of the reason was the cost of developing raw mountainous terrain. And, originally the ocean foreshore was primarily swamp.The great distances, and large rivers to span, hindered development. Bridges were built, only to have them washed out in a few years from winter floods. The City and District built Keith Road in 1912, which undulated from West Vancouver to Deep Cove amid the slashed sidehills, swamps, and burnt stumps. Yet the City did gain a strong foothold, with Lonsdale Avenue. Serviced by the North Vancouver Ferries, it proved a popular area. Commuters used the ferries to work in Vancouver. Street cars and early land speculation, spurred interest in the area. Streets, city blocks and houses were slowly built around lower Lonsdale. Wallace Shipyards, and the Pacific Great Eastern Railway provided an industrial base, although, the late arrival of the Second Narrows railway bridge in 1925 controlled development. City of North Vancouver as seen from Upper Lonsdale Sawmills, logging, and small farms continued in the interwar years. Yet the nearby mountains also proved to be a permanent attraction. Ski areas were set up on Grouse Mountain and Mount Seymour. The North Vancouver mountains have many drainages: Capilano, MacKay, Mosquito, Lynn, and Seymour Rivers. The Depression again bankrupted the city, while the Second World War turned North Vancouver into the Clydeside of Canada with a large shipbuilding program. Housing the shipyard workers, provided a new building boom, which continued on through the Post war years. By that time, North Vancouver became a popular housing area. Sewell Prescott "Sew" Moody (1834 - November 4, 1875) was a lumberman, carpenter, and Yankee trader from Hartland, Maine. At the age of 14, he and his family crossed the American continent to San Francisco. He came to New Westminster, British Columbia, about 1861 and in 1862 formed a partnership with Moses Ireland, who had made a small stake in the Cariboo mines. The Moody family had had a long association with the lumber trade in Maine, and in 1862 Moody formed a syndicate that included Ireland, Joshua Homer, and Captain James Van Bramer to build a steam sawmill at New Westminster. This was the first mill of any size on the mainland of British Columbia. Moody had decided to move his lumbering activities to Burrard Inlet. In 1864 he purchased the Pioneer Mills, the first industrial plant on the Inlet, with the mill facing bankruptcy. Moody slowly built up the first substantial lumber export business from the British Columbia mainland, and sent shipments to various places all over the world. In 1866 Moody entered into partnership with George Dietz and Hugh Nelson, who had operated an express business serving the Fraser River mines. For a time the firm continued to be known as S.P. Moody and Company, but in 1870 the name was changed to Moody, Dietz and Nelson. The mills were on the north shore of Burrard Inlet, within the limits of the present city of North Vancouver. First known locally as "Moody’s Mills," the surrounding settlement was officially named Moodyville in 1872. He died in a shipwreck at about while on a business trip. The SS Pacific, on its way to San Francisco in 1875, struck another vessel in a violent storm off Cape Flattery and sank. There were only two survivors. Six weeks after the sinking, a fragment of the lost steamer was discovered on a beach near his Victoria home. Penciled into the white painted fragment is a final note from Sewell Moody. "All lost, S.P. Moody."[1] Today Moodyville is a suburb of Canada’s third largest metropolis and continues to prosper under the name North Shore. Each January 30, residents honor Moodyville Day. Congrads to VancouverCacheCows (251 found) FTF !
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