Fiona Chesterton

Tag: family history

A new feature: a family tree

When I received the inheritance which kick starts my story, I was sent a copy of a family tree which had been painstakingly put together over many years by the Canadian officials who were trying to find any distant family of Jessie Heading and her son William Underwood to whom to bequeath his estate. The…

October 28, 2022
Return to Fort Langley, B.C: a promise fulfilled

I arrive at the cemetery around midday, five years and four days since I had first visited this historic place. Fort Langley, also known as the ‘Birthplace of B.C.’ was a trading post of the Hudson’s Bay Company from 1827 making it older than Canada itself. The cemetery opened sixty-four years later in 1881. I…

September 13, 2022
From Vancouver to Langley: Day 3 & 4

Last time I took the trip from Downtown Vancouver to Langley City, I took the slow bus winding my way through the suburbs of Surrey and Cloverdale to the bus stop near the Cascades Casino in Langley centre. This time I had got wise and chose the express route, via the Canada Line metro, then…

September 11, 2022