Newton

NEWTON, 25 km southeast of VANCOUVER, is an AGRICULTURAL and residential settlement in SURREY that grew up around a BC ELECTRIC RWY CO interurban station (1910) (see INTERURBANS) and a strategic crossroads. Named after Elias J. Newton, a saddler and harness-maker who settled in the area in the mid-1880s, it became the site of one of western Canada's first electric-powered SAWMILLS, built in 1910 by King & Farris Lumber Co.
by Andrew Scott

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