Port Guichon

Port Guichon (49˚05'00" 123˚06'00" S side of mouth of the Fraser R, SW of Ladner). This agricultural settlement was named after Laurent Guichon (1836–1902), from the Savoy region of France, who took part in the Cariboo gold rush and then ranched in the Nicola valley with his brothers. He and his wife, Peronne (1854–1922, née Rey), took up farmland in Delta in the early 1880s. Laurent, who was also involved in the hotel business in New Westminster, built a store, wharf and hotel on his...

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