The Colonial Bookstore: First in New Westminster
When Seth Thorne Tilley opened the Colonial Bookstore on Columbia Street in April 1860, New Westminster was little more than a rough clearing hacked out of the towering cedars and hemlocks, a scattering of wooden residential and commercial dwellings lining the Fraser River. Born a world away, in Gagetown, New Brunswick, in August 1836 to a… Continue reading The Colonial Bookstore: First in New Westminster