Eburne

Eburne (49˚12'00" 123˚08'00" E end of Sea I, between Richmond and Vancouver). William Henry “Harry” Eburne (1856–1924) came to BC in 1875 with his foster parents and worked for Fitzgerald McCleery, the first farmer in Vancouver, who cultivated the Southlands flats on the N shore of the Fraser R. Eburne opened a store in S Vancouver in 1881, then bought John Sexsmith’s N Arm store and post office on Lulu I in 1885. In 1892 he married Rosamond Esther Bennett (1877–1953) at Vancouver...

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