Museum       Archives       Exhibits       Education      History        Links       Site Index
					Colonial Settlers : Adam Swart Vedder
			The Land Colonial Settlers Community of Villages Pre-emptions Agriculture Timelines Image Gallery		Adam Vedder (1834-1905) was 26 years old when he arrived in British Columbia in 1860. He was an American from New York State who traveled west with his brothers, Albert and John and father, Volkert. He spent several years in Hope and North Bend working as a builder and butcher, before pre-empting land in the Sardis area in 1868 and became a prominent Sardis dairy farmer. Vedder served as a Warden of the Township of Chilliwack, a Member of the Provincial Parliament and as a Postmaster (1888-1894). He opened the first post office in his home at the junction of Coqualeetza and Skowkale roads (now Vedder and Knight roads). He was married twice, first to Alathea Sicker (1829-1892) from Napanee, Ontario and then to Elizabeth Jackman (1863-1940), originally from Owen Sound, Ontario. Before her marriage to Vedder, Alathea was married to John Sicker (1831-1875). Sicker arrived in 1866. In 1867, he took up 160 acres of land east of Luckakuck Creek, part of which was later, in 1893, to become the Hulbert Hop Yards. He drowned in 1875 during a freshet on the Luckakuck.
							Colonial settler Adam Swart Vedder.

Museum       Archives       Exhibits       Education      History        Links       Site Index