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Throwback: Winter days in Ladner (PHOTOS)

Let's do a throwback on this winter day and check out some winter scenes from Ladner Village a century ago. Photos by the Delta Archives.
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A winter scene from 1900 showing a group of children and adults sledding on snow covered Westham Street (48th Avenue). The buildings on street include J. A. Moore, Ladner Hotel and the Methodist Church.

Let's do a throwback on this winter day and check out some winter scenes from Ladner Village a century ago. Photos by the Delta Archives.

 

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A 1910 photograph of Delta Street covered in snow with horse drawn sleigh moving south towards Westham Street (48th Avenue) and the Methodist Church

 

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A 1920 photograph of Elliott Street in winter. The buildings include the Innes and Fenton hardware store, the wharf and Jordan's Stables 

 

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A 1916 photograph of Westham Street in winter. It shows C. O. Lambert, G. Clement, and Myrtle McCrae Grant shoveling snow, probably outside the Clement and Lambert hardware store. Lambert and Clement bought the tinsmith and hardware store on Westham Street in 1909, according to the Daily British Columbian of May 12, 1909

 

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A 1920s photograph of people skating and playing ice hockey on the frozen Fraser River near the B & K warehouse in Ladner Harbour. A paddlewheel boat is frozen in at the government wharf in the background