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In Kootenay Presbytery, the Beaver Falls-Montrose United Church was part of the Fruitvale Pastoral Charge from 1952 to 1972. Worship services were held in the Montrose Community Hall. While records indicate that the services there did not start in Montrose on a formal basis until 1955, it is not clear at what point they ceased. Beaver Falls-Montrose is not listed in the yearbook after 1957.

Beaver (Ship)
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The Beaver was a Hudson's Bay Company steamship working on the coast of B.C.

In Kootenay Presbytery, the Beaver Valley-Salmo Pastoral Charge was constituted in 1972 and has continued to the present time. This pastoral charge consists of St. Paul's United Church (Fruitvale, B.C.) and Salmo United Church. St. Paul's United Church was built in about 1939 and was part of Fruitvale Pastoral Charge (1937-1939) which included Castlegar and Robson. From 1939 to 1952, it was part of Trail-Fruitvale Pastoral Charge. It was again part of Fruitvale Pastoral Charge (including Beaver Falls, Montrose, Salmo, Ymir and other points) from 1952 to 1959. In 1959, Salmo and Fruitvale became separate charges, though Beaver Falls, Montrose and other points remained connected with Fruitvale Pastoral Charge. In 1972, St. Paul's United Church (Fruitvale, B.C.) and Salmo United Church became part of the Beaver Valley-Salmo Pastoral Charge.

Beaverdell United Church
Corporate body · 1925-

In 1920, the Presbyterian Church began a mission centred in Greenwood, B.C., but also served several small mining and forestry communities, including Midway, Rock Creek, Bridesville and Beaverdell, located up the Kettle Valley. In the mining community of Beaverdell, the congregation met in a schoolhouse for many years. Between 1920 and 1922, the Greenwood mission field was served by a student missionary, and in 1922 an ordained minister was appointed. The Greenwood field (including Beaverdell) entered the United Church in 1925. The congregation built Beaverdell United Church in 1959, and it was opened in December of that year. The community has been very small over the years, and by 1971, the Greenwood Pastoral Charge was served by the minister from the Grand Forks Pastoral Charge, with many of the services at Beaverdell being led by lay people within the congregation. By the late 1980's, the elderly congregation decided that they could not carry on.

Corporate body

The Beavermouth Assisted School Board administered the Beavermouth Assisted School in the Columbia region of B.C. The Board's responsibilities were later assumed by School District No. 18 (Golden).

Barbaree, Marjorie
Person · 1912-1983

Marjorie Beddard was born in Edmonton, Alberta in 1912, moving to the Peace River area in 1931 where she began her teaching career at the Landry School. In 1933 she married Claude Raymond Neal and the couple homesteaded in the Erinlea district of the North Peace. She later married John ("Jack") Blaine Kerr, a Rolla pioneer. Ten years after Kerr's death in 1958 she married Errol Barbaree who passed away in 1975. Marj Barbaree passed away in 1983.

Belcher (family)

Sir Edward Belcher (1799-1877) was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Members of the Belcher family moved to New England from England in the seventeenth century and then to Nova Scotia, where Belcher’s grandfather, Johnathan Belcher, became the first chief justice. In 1811, Edward Belcher and his family moved back to England, where he joined the Royal Navy the following year. Belcher gained recognition as a surveyor on a number of voyages, including the Beechey expedition in the mid-1820s, and in 1829 he was promoted to Commander. He married Diana Jolliffe in 1830, but the marriage lasted only a few years. In 1841, in reward for his participation in the conflict leading to the ceding of Hong Kong to Great Britain, Belcher was made a Companion of the Order of Bath. He was subsequently knighted in 1843 for his success in surveying the west coast of America. From 1852 to 1854, Belcher commanded an expedition to the Arctic in search of Sir John Franklin. In 1872 he attained the rank of Admiral.

Bell-Irving (family)
Family · 1856 -

Henry Ogle Bell-Irving (1856-1931) was educated in Edinburgh, and studied engineering at Karlsruhe, Germany. In 1882, he came to Canada on the "Rolling Polly" to work as a survey engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway. He arrived in Vancouver in 1885, and worked in real estate with R.G. Tatlow. He established an importing business with R.P. Paterson, and their firm, Bell-Irving and Paterson was the first to have a general cargo shipped directly from London to Vancouver via Cape Horn. In 1890, he secured options on nine British Columbia fish canneries and established the Anglo-British Columbia Packing Company. Henry O. Bell-Irving was known as a conservationist, and as a keen photographer, artist and sportsman. Henry O. Bell-Irving and his wife had several children. Their son, Richard Bell-Irving succeeded Henry O. Bell-Irving as president of Anglo-British Columbia Packing Company in 1931, and in 1962, Richard Bell-Irving's son, Ian Bell-Irving took over the position, which he held until the company announced in 1969 that it would cease its operations in British Columbia.

Bell Ranch

The Bell Ranch was located at Big Creek in the Cariboo-Chilcotin area and was owned by a Mr. Blenkinsop.

The Indian District was created in 1900 through an amalgamation of Bella Bella District and Port Simpson District, and was renamed Port Simpson District again in 1907.

Bella Coola Colony

The Bella Coola Colony was formed in 1894 to bring Norwegian emigrants to Bella Coola, B.C.

Bella Coola Pastoral Charge currently consists of two congregations, Emmanuel United and Mackenzie United Churches. From 1949 until the congregation closed in 1983, Augsburg United Church was also a part of the Bella Coola Pastoral Charge. Missionary activity began in 1882 as the Bella Coola Methodist Mission (or Circuit). About 1929, the white congregation built a new building, MacKenzie United Church, and the native congregation became known as Emmanuel United Church. Augsburg was originally a Lutheran congregation, founded at the Norwegian settlement of Hagensborg in 1894. It joined the United Church of Canada in 1949. (For early records, see Augsburg Lutheran Church (Hagensborg) fonds.)

Belmont Superior School

Belmont School was located in Langley School District, later School District 35 (Langley).