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being that he owned land over there. The place where he established himself is beyond Point Atkinson, a mile or so from Point Atkinson; the shack was back from the water front; they landed right on the beach; there was no float of any kind; there was a creek there for water; nice little gravelly beach. Anyway, Mr. Williams rowed back and forth to Vancouver through the Narrows almost every day. Then his daughter used to take music lessons on the pipe organ at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, and they came over twice a week for that. She used to walk by the trail - I think it was seven miles - to the Moodyville ferry when it called at North Vancouver; there was a float of logs at the foot of what is now Lonsdale Ave, and they would not tie the boat up to the float; it might capsize it, so the prospective passengers had to jump on the ferry boat, and twice Miss Williams jumped in the water and got wet. Brown, who sold Mr. Williams the property, was supposed to have been drowned in the First Narrows, but some people say that he skipped; it appears that he did not own the property he sold Mr. Williams, or did not have any authority to sell it. Mr. and Mrs. Williams, their sons Claude and Alfred all went to live out at Point Atkinson, and after that the Williams took up a newer home in Fairview next to the old Alexander Orphange on Sixth or Seventh Avenue. Then after that he got interested and formed the Trades and Labor Council, and he was the one who got the building built on Dunsrnuir St., the Labor Temple,, and then while he was Alderman, he was the instigator for getting the most lasting piece of road; that's on Sixth Ave.; that's that brick pavement. He fought hard for that bit of road. Then he., was elected to be Labour member of Parliament. The son Alfred was a carpentif; I don't know what became of him, but Claude joined the City Water Uept. MR. FRANCIS WILLIAMS TfiTZ) ptctuAe 0/5 VnancJji WAjJU.a.m ujcu> tafze.n about 1910, accoAcUng to kts gaanddon, Ma. Lloyd WtlZtam, u)ho loaned o6 tke, ptc-tiXAQ, {^OA AQ.pAO duetton. It It tnteAQ^ttng to speculate iA)kaX tmpact VAancJj> Wtlltam mtgkt have had on Wojit OancouveA, had he. had cleaA title and been able to Aetlde in the community. FAom hit accomplithmentt in UanouveA, it might have been contideAable. JOHN LAWSON'S SAFE Mayor Humphreys has informed your president that the municipality has acquired John Lawson's safe. When the Society takes over the old Ferry Ticket Office, it will be able to display the safe there. Now if we could get possession of Mr. Lawson's desk as wel1 -- !!