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HISTORICALThe British Columbia Express Company, who have just sold out to the Inland Express Co., was started in 1862 by Mr. F. J. Barnard, for many years a memberof the House of Commons, and the father of the sitting member for the city of Victoria. It carried the first letters ever distributed by mail in the Cariboo,when the charge for delivery was $2 per issue. In 1864 the charter of the British Columbia Express Company was granted, and the concern was carried on by Mr. Barnard and his associates until 1886, when the business was disposed of to Mr. Stephen Tingley and a Mr. Henderson. Mr. Tingley, who had been connected with the company since its incorporation, lost the mail contract in the fall of 1897, and then disposed of his interests to Messrs. Charles Miller and John Shields, and Mr. Kilgore, of Toronto, who carried on the work for several years, during which time Mr. J. Leighton, now of Savona, was the superintendent.
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Cranbrook Prospector
Cranbrook, British Columbia, CA
Fri, Feb 20, 1914
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