Chapter 12 - The Last of the First

Is it true that the first non-aboriginal child born in Vancouver was a baby girl named McNeil, I was asked by Angus MacNeil of Vancouver as I plugged away at my research into the often unattributed contributions women have made to British Columbia. The archives showed that there was a Margaret Florence McNeil born in Vancouver on April 27, 1886, the year the city was both incorporated and burned down—but whether she was actually the first-born I couldn’t attest. The more I asked around, the...

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