16 — Wednesday, August 26, 1998 — North Shore News
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Sapper gave his
name to Lynn Valley

JOHN Linn was one of
the original 165 Royal
Engineers, “Sappers,”
who came to develop
the new colony of
British Columbia in
1858, when 30,000
gold seekers invaded the
. Praser River Valley.

«Born in.. Edinburgh,
Scotland, John Linn was a
Strapping Scottish — stone

“mason, with a moustache and .

ideburns. He joined the Royal
-Engineers in..1846 and was
posted to Halifax, Nova Scotia.
There he met and married

ary. Robertson, returning to
Englarid just in time to volun-
‘for “duty in — British
Columbia. Linn returned to
¢. colony.in 1859 aboard the
‘Thames City, where his son
was born, the first of six chil-

‘dren.

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LYNN Valley Road, shown here in 1909, was named
(although it was misspelled) after John Linn.

adventure and hetoism.

Linn served with the Roya!
Engineers until 1863, when
the troupe was disbanded. He
had a choice to return to
England or stay and hcip settle
the new colony with a land
grant of 150 acres.

Linn stayed and claimed
Lot 204, 150 acres east of
Lynn Creek, moving his family
from New Westminster to the
new dairy farm. The home-
stcad was located about one
mile west of Moodyvillc,

‘where his children attended a

one-room school.
He set up a logging camp

Inlet, supplying poles for the
Stamp Mill wharf (which later
became Hastings Mill on the

South Shore).

Linn died in 1876 and was
buried beside his Royal
Engineer comrades in the
Masonic Cemetery in New
Westminster. He left behind
the legacy of his name (mis-
spelled) to Lynn Valley, Lynn
Creek, Lynn Peaks, and
Lynnmour.

Mrs. Linn managed the
ranch until her death in 1907,
when she sold the estate to
Edward Mahon for $21, 000.

Down Memory Lane is a
series of columns by North
Vancouver writer Janell Hi/son.
Information supplied ty Roy
Pailant, the Vancouver
Archives, and North Vancouver
Museum > Archives (987-

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