Thinking about when I was a very young girl around five or six years old in 1909 and 1910 we drove down with a team of horses and buggy to visit my grandmother and grandfather Cook living in Pitt Meadows. It was a trip of 9 miles each way and no paved roads in those days, very narrow gravelled roads with lots of holes and rough spots. By the way, my mother and dad lived in Port Haney around 3 ½ miles from the town up the Dewdney Trunk, now across from the Garibaldi school to be exact. We drove down Dewdney Trunk to where you now turn south on Laity Street, which I believe was then called Bailey Road, as the Bailey family lived on it for many years, in fact, Miss Bailey still lives there. Then on through Port Hammond and the road that crossed Katzie Slough, now called Hammond Road, was so narrow if you saw a horse and buggy coming you waited, as you could not pass. Had very deep ditches on each side, I used to visit a very nice lady in those days, named Mrs. Harris and her son, of course, she always had candy for me and lived a short way down Harris Road on the opposite side of the road from my grandparents. My Grandfather had cleared a nice piece of land and planted it all in strawberries. He hired a Chinese man to hoe and keep the weeds down and I remember talking to him many times. He had his hair braided in pigtails, as they were called, and wore a big straw hat, a very nice man I thought.<\/div>\r\n