The Langley Centennial Museum’s exhibit about the life and times of Philip Jackman, From Royal Engineer to Reeve, is now online via the Virtual Museum of Canada.
From the website: “Jackman engaged in many ventures in the almost 70 years he spent in British Columbia. He sought fortune in the Cariboo gold rush, worked at the province’s first psychiatric institution, was a night watchman in New Westminster, mutinied while under the employ of the Canadian Pacific Railway, acted as a Fisheries Officer on the Fraser River, farmed and owned a general store in Aldergrove, served as Reeve of the Township of Langley, and outlived all other members of the Columbia Detachment of Royal Engineers.”
For more, visit HERE.