"Luno's"

A brief summary of the owners and uses of the "Luno" buildings on Lougheed Highway. Still looking for pictures of "Jean's Cafe" or the "Hoofbeat Coral. 

Corrections or additions are always welcome 

• 1926  Marshall J, Luno, confectionary and service station  on River Road
• 1930  Buildings moved to Lougheed Highway
• 1939  Marshall Luno died. 
• 1940 – 1943  Edith Luno. M.J. Luno’s widow continued with the confectionary only.  
• 1944  Hughes Confectionary
• 1945  Herbert Hughes General Store
• 1946  Store bought by Alton and Louse Canfield née Barager
• 1951  Sold to E.B. McLean
• 1953  Bought back by Louise (now married to William Gullason)
• 1956   Old store demolished and new store built; the little shop at the corner of Lougheed and Wharf road was rented to Luno Jr. for his radio repair work
• 1961  Store sold to Ed and Elizabeth Clarke. 
• 1963   Store sold back to William and Louise (Gullasson). 
• 1967  Store sold to Alf and Muriel Crosby: “Jean’s Cafe”
• ????   Sold to Bruce Elder who named it " Hoofbeat Corral”.

New Whonnock Notes out !

Whonnock Notes No. 21, “George Stanley Godwin, 1889 – 1974, Biographical Notes” is now available on this Web site, ready to download or read.  Click here.

For printed copies at $5.00 talk to Sue or Teresa at the post office. Printed copies of all 20 earlier issues are still for sale. 

The publication immediately caught the attention of BC BookLook, the Internet companion to BC BookWorld. Click here to read their comments. 

Click here for Wikipedia.

There goes the neighbourhood!

This map is part of a recent “Facilities Review” by School District 42 showing the strongest potential growth areas (new developments) in Maple Ridge. 
As shown on this map newly created "communities” overlap and and ignore the historical communities of Maple Ridge shown in grey on this map: (Port) Hammond, (Port) Haney, Maple Ridge (The Ridge), Yennadon, Webster’s Corners Albion, Whonnock and Ruskin. 
There are more “new communities” overlapping historical communities that are not shown here: Allouette Valley, Cottonwood, South Bonson, and South Meadows. 

Whonnock Mill

The calendar for 2015 shows on its cover the water tower of the “Whonnock mill.” 

The history of a mill at that site started in 1929 with the incorporation of the Whonnock Lumber Mill Ltd. by Zentaro Shin and two partners. The mill they built would work on second-growth timber and also produce railway ties and poles.

The mill closed down a year or so later and in 1932 the ownership changed to Tidewater Lumber Company.

Tidewater rebuilt and enlarged the mill – probably to accommodate first-growth timber – and started operations again early in 1934 with Zentaro Shin as manager of the mill.

Peter Bain purchased the mill in 1936. His company held substantial lumber rights in Whonnock above Dewdney Trunk Road (“X” limits).  

In 1947 Bain Lumber Mills Ltd. sold the Whonnock mill to Yorkston Lumber Co. who in 1963 incorporated the mill as Whonnock Lumber Co. Ltd. In 1966 the owners, Frank Brooks and Adrian Yorkston started a process to transfer of the mill to its employees.

The plant was closed and demolished in 1994. 

Hodgson

Thomas James and Mary Jane Hodgson and their children immigrated to Canada in 1894. The Hodgsons purchased land from the Reverend Dunn and his wife and are recorded paying taxes on 10 acres starting in 1898. As from 1900 they owned 14.5 acres.

Thomas James Hodgson Sr. was a well-respected man and a councillor. He was an uncle of Richard Stanley Whiting, the well-known postmaster, who immigrated in 1907.
The Hodgson family still shows up in the Canada Census of 1911 as living in Whonnock but they had moved away to Hatzic by 1912.

On the photo of the first Whonnock school (previous post) are three of the Hodgson children. 

Click on the image of the descendant chart to enlarge. 

From right to left
Back row: Teacher Thomas Mercer, Thomas Hodgson, Geoffrey Hodgson, Bessie Henderson, Jenny [Jane] Boyd, Kate [Katherine] McCarthy, Ella [Lilly] Owen, Gladys Fancher, and William Owen
Front row: George Owen, Constance Hodgson, Constance [Eleanora Constance] or Mona [Monica] McCarthy, Pearl Boyd, Ruth Rolley, and Maisie [Minnie] Owen 

This very early photograph survives thanks to Ruth Ferguson née Rolley. She also identified the names of the teacher and the children as shown above. 

Teacher Thomas C. Mercer was hired by the Trustees of the Whonnock school in the spring of 1898 and he tendered his resignation in August 1901. 

In April of that year the enumerator for the Canada Census 1901 who collected the information about the residents of Whonnock did not record the Fanchers, who had sold their property opposite the Whonnock cemetery to the Rolley’s, the McCarthty's or the Boyds. That suggests that the photo was taken in the summer of 1899 or 1900 before these families left Whonnock. 

The two McCarthy girls were the daughters of Michael McCarthy, “steam engineer” at the CPR, and Sarah Oliver, the oldest daughter of Noble Oliver and his wife Catherine. Noble Oliver was Whonnock’s first storekeeper and postmaster. 

Noble and Catherine Oliver

Did some work on the descendants of the first postmaster and storekeeper at Whonnock and his wife. Additions and corrections are welcome. Click on image to enlarge.
One of the problems with the McCarthy family is that I can’t find them in the Canada Census in particular I’d like to learn more about Kate McCarthy.