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My grandfather had his home place here on the whole of the property now known as the Pitt Meadows Airport. He was a Reeve for the Municipality and sold his own plots of subdivided land complete with the house of your choice. He also subdivided quite a lot of land West of his own farm and did have road rights-of-way included. Many of those rights-of-way have now disappeared. In order to get the dykes built up and help the farm\/home owners, he got Victoria to agree to forego their property taxes if they worked on building up the dykes. He grew registered seed potatoes, exported them to the USA and had an office in the historic Marine Building in Vancouver, BC. He was known to have a temper which arose during some silly conflicts. He had his yacht moored at Fordson Landing which was just West of where Baynes Road meets the Fraser River. With this, he travelled up the Coast as far as Prince Rupert and had timber claims and mining claims along his route. He gave his only son, Ralph Eugene Ford, a large plot of land where the Fraser and Pitt Rivers meet. Due to the large amount of peat in the ground, he first built the \"plank road\" straight across the later known blueberry farms. In later years, it wasn't practical so the Ford Road Detour was built around the peat bog. He also travelled up into the Okanagon Valley and once again subdivided land on the shores of Kaleden at Skaha Lake, where he began the construction of a hotel. This hotel was never to be finished as the Great Depression hit and he lost everything. A man with great foresight, energy and ambition, born well ahead of his time. Many tales to tell!<\/p>\r\n

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Sherman Herbert Ford's home place

My grandfather had his home place here on the whole of the property now known as the Pitt Meadows Airport. He was a Reeve for the Municipality and sold his own plots of subdivided land complete with the house of your choice. He also subdivided quite a lot of land West of his own farm and did have road rights-of-way included. Many of those rights-of-way have now disappeared. In order to get the dykes built up and help the farm/home owners, he got Victoria to agree to forego their property taxes if they worked on building up the dykes. He grew registered seed potatoes, exported them to the USA and had an office in the historic Marine Building in Vancouver, BC. He was known to have a temper which arose during some silly conflicts. He had his yacht moored at Fordson Landing which was just West of where Baynes Road meets the Fraser River. With this, he travelled up the Coast as far as Prince Rupert and had timber claims and mining claims along his route. He gave his only son, Ralph Eugene Ford, a large plot of land where the Fraser and Pitt Rivers meet. Due to the large amount of peat in the ground, he first built the "plank road" straight across the later known blueberry farms. In later years, it wasn't practical so the Ford Road Detour was built around the peat bog. He also travelled up into the Okanagon Valley and once again subdivided land on the shores of Kaleden at Skaha Lake, where he began the construction of a hotel. This hotel was never to be finished as the Great Depression hit and he lost everything. A man with great foresight, energy and ambition, born well ahead of his time. Many tales to tell!
This was sent to us by a grandchild of S.H. Ford, thank you for your submission.
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Latitude: 49.22224968439
Longitude: -122.69707126082
Direct Link: https://www.pittmeadowsmuseum.com/locations/sherman-herbert-fords-home-place