Hollyburn

Hollyburn (49˚20'00" 123˚09'00" N side of Burrard Inlet, just N of Vancouver). John Lawson (1869–1954) and his family were W Vancouver pioneers, settling there in 1907. Lawson, from Ont, arrived in BC in 1887 and was a railroad worker for many years. He bought land in the W Vancouver area in 1906 (parcels of which he later sold to other newcomers) and suggested the name after planting holly trees on his property, which had a stream, or “burn,” running across it. He developed an early...

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