Blackie Spit

Blackie Spit (49˚04'00" 122˚53'00" E side of Boundary Bay at mouth of Nickomekl R, S of Vancouver). Walter Blackie (1824–1902) was the first blacksmith at New Westminster and a city councillor. Of Scottish descent, he arrived from Australia in the early 1860s and bought land at Crescent Beach in 1871. He purchased the 2.6-hectare spit in 1875, for $6.50 ($1 an acre), and added more adjacent land in 1878. He eventually moved to California but returned to BC on his wife’s death. Blackie...

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