Easthope Brothers

EASTHOPE BROTHERS manufactured boat engines on the coast for 7 decades. Ernest Easthope and his family immigrated to NEW WESTMINSTER from England in 1889. He and his son Vincent began making primitive 2-cycle gas engines with make-and-break ignition in 1900. The Easthope 2-cycle ran rough and was unreliable, but it was popular because it offered fishers the first available and affordable means of powering their gillnet skiffs. The original company, Easthope and Son, got into financial trouble...

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