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Mount Lehman or Mt. Lehman (49°07'00"N, 122°23'00"W) is a small rural community located in the Fraser Valley of south western British Columbia, Canada.〔http://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/27429.html BC Geographical Names〕 The community was established in 1864 and became part of the District of Matsqui in 1892.〔The Daily Colonist, Victoria, B.C., May 17, 1892, p. 6〕 The District of Matsqui was incorporated into the present day City of Abbotsford, British Columbia in 1995. Mount Lehman is situated on an area of upraised land (hence, where the "Mount" comes into the name), that lies between the flat plains of Matsqui Prairie to the east and Glen Valley to the west. The original historic community can be roughly bounded by the Fraser River in the north, Harris Road in the South, Bradner Road in the West, and Matsqui Prairie in the east. Mount Lehman is named for Isaac Lehman.〔Howay, F.W. and Scholefield, E.O.S.; ''British Columbia From the Earliest Times to the Present, Biographical Volume IV''; The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, Vancouver 1914, p. 538〕〔Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; ''1001 British Columbia Place Names''; Discovery Press, Vancouver 1969, 1970, 1973, p. 119〕 In 1875, first cousins Samuel and Isaac Lehman pre-empted many acres of land in the area. == History == In 1864, the area consisted of a heavily wooded plateau of massive cedar and fir trees, sandwiched between two fertile plains just south of the Fraser River. This hardly seemed a likely place for a burgeoning farming community. However, in that same year, Royal Engineer Alben Hawkins arrived to survey the area and took up residence on the bluff above the southern bank of the Fraser River. He became the first white man to settle on the upraised land that separated Glen Valley and the Matsqui municipality. Some years later, cousins Sam and Isaac Lehman arrived on the banks of the Fraser River near the same spot to try their own fortunes. Sam's wife Katherine joined him and they had six children in the small community that would eventually bear the family name. A wharf was soon built on the Fraser River at the spot at foot of the bluff and this became known as Lehman's Landing. The landing became an important riverboat stop east of Fort Langley. At the time it was the only entry point into the Matsqui area and was served by paddle-wheel steam boats that travelled up and down the Fraser River between Yale and New Westminster. Lehman and other settlers took on the huge task of logging the area, clearing the dense coastal underbrush and building a network of trails. One of those trails, leading from the wharf to the farming settlement, was called Landing Road. Landing Road was open for vehicular traffic until 1950, and while some of the road remains, the last few hundred metres of the route to the river landing is now just a walking trail. Pilings in the river still remain to mark where the wharf once stood. Mount Lehman was an attractive location for newcomers, as it was safe from the Fraser's summer floods and plagues of mosquitoes. Once cleared, the forest floor yielded rich farming and pasture lands. People came to settle and by 1883, Thomson's General Store operated at Lehman's Landing. The Mount Lehman Post Office began operation May 1, 1884.〔 The first one-room school was also built in 1884〔The Daily Colonist, Victoria, B.C., June 1, 1884, p. 3〕 near the site of the current school. It was replaced by a two-room building sometime between 1909 and 1912, and is the oldest continuously operating school in the Abbotsford School District. The Mount Lehman United Church was established in 1894, and the community hall was built in 1904. The school, hall and church have all operated continuously since they were created. Until 1910, logging still provided the livelihoods for most of the settlers to the area. Then in 1910〔http://www.sryraillink.com/about-sry/history/ SRY Rail Link history page〕 a nearby stop on the new British Columbia Electric Railway changed how the community grew. The railway linked Chilliwack to Vancouver through Mt. Lehman. Eventually, the store was moved from the landing to the school, and then to the site of the railway crossing, along with the post office. Soon a hardware store and service station were added at this same location. Around this time many Mt. Lehman pioneers began to raise vegetables and dairy products. With the arrival of the rail, valley communities became less dependent on the Fraser's paddle-wheelers to take their milk and produce to market in New Westminster. From 1910-1952 the BC Electric Railway provided passenger trains and freight service twice daily and an extra market train came through on Fridays. They also had a milk train every morning to carry dairy products. By the 1930s Mt.Lehman was thriving and consisted of a hardware store, a feed co-operative, a bank, 2 general stores, a post office, a shoe maker shop, a butcher shop, a library, and a train station. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mount Lehman, Abbotsford」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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