"…to our surprise and horror we have discovered that parties of youths come in boats and bathe off our boathouse platform. Stevens [O’ Reilly employee] bravely went and ordered them away, & I propose posting a notice to the effect "Any person bathing from this boathouse will forfeit their clothes"… "

Kathleen O’Reilly to Peter O’Reilly, July 1889
Credit: Courtesy of BC Archives – Call Number A/E Or3