One of Richmond's early farming families was recently featured by the Friends of the Richmond Archives.
A historical photo from the Lougheed family farm at No. 7 Road and Westminster Highway was posted on Facebook, showing workers in front of a dairy truck around 1930.
The family farmed oats and hay and raised Holstein cows on their 160-acre farm.
“Mrs. Lougheed,” nee Bertha Carruthers (written some places as Carroughs), was interviewed in 1975 and explained how she married Warren Lougheed at the age of 19 in 1904, moving from Ontario to Ladner as a bride in 1905.
In 1919, the family moved to the Richmond farm.
She reminisced about evenings around the piano and a dining room table that sat 17.
The family sold their produce at the New Westminster farmers market and on Main Street in Vancouver.
The family had 15 to 20 Holstein cows, and they bottled their own milk. Later, they were affiliated with the Fraser Valley Milk Producers Association.
Westminster Highway wasn’t a thoroughfare at that time and the family had to travel via Cambie Road to get to town.
Bertha's younger children attended Trites School, also located on the corner of No. 7 Road and Westminster Highway.
Trites School was moved to No. 9 Road and Westminster Highway in 1933 and was renamed Hamilton School.
Other memories included her children swimming in Bath Slough three miles away, which is west of where Ikea is currently located.
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