New Westminster
New Westminster (also known as New West) is a city in British Columbia, Canada. It is in the Metro Vancouver Regional District. Major-General Richard Moody started the city in 1858. It was the capital of the Colony of British Columbia until 1866.[1] It was the largest city in the mainland of British Columbia until the 1910s, when Vancouver became larger.
The city is near the Fraser River, and is near the middle of the Greater Vancouver area.
New Westminster Media
A view of New Westminster from the Fraser River, c. 1865
Moody likened his vision of the nascent Colony of British Columbia to the pastoral scenes painted by Aelbert Cuyp.
Residences in New Westminster near the Fraser River in 2020
A replica of a Queen Anne house opposite Queens Park
May Day celebrations in 1913. Young girls dance around a maypole.
References
- ↑ Ormsby, Margaret (1976). British Columbia, A History. Toronto: Macmillan Company of Canada Limited.