Royston

Royston (49˚39'00" 124˚57'00" S side of Comox Hbr, E side of Vancouver I). William Roy (b 1840), from Scotland via NS, worked as a miner in the collieries at Cumberland in the late 1880s. He and his wife, Christiana (b 1838), also ran a boarding house there. The family bought land on Comox Hbr in 1890 and farmed. In 1910, with realtor and developer Frederick Warren, Roy laid out a townsite on his property and called it Royston, partly because of his surname and partly because Warren was a...

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