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					Colonial Settlers : Richard and Sara Elizabeth Hodgson
			The Land Colonial Settlers Community of Villages Pre-emptions Agriculture Timelines Image Gallery		An engineer by occupation, Richard Whittam Hodgson (1834 - 1909) came to Canada from Yorkshire, England. He first settled in Kingston, Ontario but left for British Columbia in 1863. After spending some years as a miner in the Cariboo, he returned to his profession and was engaged in running a steamboat on the Fraser River. He was a farmer at Sumas (now Greendale). Later, he worked for the Moodyville Sawmill Company, for seventeen years, as a chief engineer, resigning in 1886. The family was then in the express business in Vancouver. Sarah Elizabeth Wilson (c.1837 - 1901) was born in Rochester, New York. She came to British Columbia in 1866 from Kingston, Ontario, three years after her husband, with their eldest son. They came to the Chilliwack area in 1868. The couple had five children.
								P31- Formal portrait of Richard Hodgson
								P32- Formal portrait of Mrs.Sarah Hodgson

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