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Colonial Settlers : James & Harriet Chadsey
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James Chadsey (1839-1908) arrived in 1862 with his brother Chester. He homesteaded in the Sumas (Greendale) area. In 1868, with brother William, they initiated a new method of hermetically sealing two, five and ten pound cans of butter for shipment to the Cariboo gold fields. In 1871, James brought the first reaper to the Valley and in 1879 built the first gristmill.

James Chadsey married Harriet Hall (1853-1935) in 1868. She was the daughter of Corporal William Hall, a Royal Engineer who came to British Columbia in 1858. She was born at Gibraltar and with her parents came to British Columbia by way of Cape Horn, in what was undoubtedly a heroic journey. The Royal Engineers fulfilled the role of constructing roads, surveying and, together with the Royal navy, acted as the Crown Colony of British Columbia's first police force. The couple had seven children.
Portrait of James Lonson Chadsey Portrait of Mrs. Harriet Chadsey P447- Portrait of James Lonson Chadsey

P446- Portrait of Mrs. Harriet Chadsey

P447- Portrait of Chadsey Family

 

Portrait of Chadsey Family

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