????<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>This road is named after Municipal Reeve Sherman Herbert Ford (S.H. Ford). The image below is of S.H. Ford. Sherman Herbert Ford was born on December 8, 1871 in Rockwell City, Iowa, United States. He emigrated to Victoria, B.C Canada, prior to 1910. The exact date is unknown. The image below is of S.H. Ford. <\/p>\r\n Ford had many occupations. According to Virginia Gail Ford Mackintosh (Ford's granddaughter),\"He raised sheep and certified 'Early Rose' seed potatoes on the farm to ship to the U.S.A., while he being a Notary Public, a member of the B.C. Land and Investment Co., a director of the Vegetable Marketing Board, with his offices in the Marine Building in Vancouver, an investor in mining shares, uranium, lumber and logging tracts, buying and selling timber limits in the Johnson Straits, and the Municipal Reeve of Pitt Meadows in January 1932 to December 1933.\"<\/p>\r\n ?<\/span> Sadly, Ford lost most of his investments through the Depression. He died of a heart attack on April 14,1948.<\/p>","SEO_LINK":"ford-road","VIDEO_LINK":"","SOUNDCLOUD_LINK":"","IMG1":"1522268110_main_1ford-road.jpg","IMG2":"","IMG3":"","IMG4":"","IMG5":"","IMG6":"","IMG7":"","IMG1_THUMB":"","IMG2_THUMB":"","IMG3_THUMB":"","IMG4_THUMB":"","IMG5_THUMB":"","IMG6_THUMB":"","IMG7_THUMB":""}X This road is named after Municipal Reeve Sherman Herbert Ford (S.H. Ford). The image below is of S.H. Ford. Sherman Herbert Ford was born on December 8, 1871 in Rockwell City, Iowa, United States. He emigrated to Victoria, B.C Canada, prior to 1910. The exact date is unknown. The image below is of S.H. Ford. Ford had many occupations. According to Virginia Gail Ford Mackintosh (Ford's granddaughter),"He raised sheep and certified 'Early Rose' seed potatoes on the farm to ship to the U.S.A., while he being a Notary Public, a member of the B.C. Land and Investment Co., a director of the Vegetable Marketing Board, with his offices in the Marine Building in Vancouver, an investor in mining shares, uranium, lumber and logging tracts, buying and selling timber limits in the Johnson Straits, and the Municipal Reeve of Pitt Meadows in January 1932 to December 1933." Sadly, Ford lost most of his investments through the Depression. He died of a heart attack on April 14,1948. Details: Latitude: 49.2224466021320 Longitude: -122.71184826224 Direct Link: https://www.pittmeadowsmuseum.com/locations/ford-road
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Ford was a prominent landowner and developer in Pitt Meadows. According to Virginia, \"sometime after 1903 we believe, he purchased a vast number of acres west of Harris Road to the Fraser and Pitt Rivers. He sold parcels of land and would have homes, a series of designs he made available, built on them if the purchaser wished. He added another 51 acres of land in 1943 at the end of Windsor Road. In addition, he and some other investors purchased some property on Kennedy Road and subdivided it into a town site as they knew a bridge and a highway would someday be built across the Pitt River, alongside the railway bridge.<\/p>\r\n
Ford was also politically active. He travelled to Victoria during the Depression years to help seek tax relief for the farmers and homeowners in Pitt Meadows. He proposed they work on projects such as hauling gravel, building roads and such in lieu of tax payment. The homeowners saved their farms and did all the work with horse and wagon.<\/p>\r\n
Sherman was also fundamental in helping to secure a school bus for the outlying areas.<\/p>\r\n
Ford was a Seventh-Day Adventist and built the present church at the corner of Harris and Ford Roads. His church group also built a log house and an academy, called the Manson Industrial Academy, on the road they aptly named Advent Road.\"<\/p>\r\n
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Ford was a prominent landowner and developer in Pitt Meadows. According to Virginia, "sometime after 1903 we believe, he purchased a vast number of acres west of Harris Road to the Fraser and Pitt Rivers. He sold parcels of land and would have homes, a series of designs he made available, built on them if the purchaser wished. He added another 51 acres of land in 1943 at the end of Windsor Road. In addition, he and some other investors purchased some property on Kennedy Road and subdivided it into a town site as they knew a bridge and a highway would someday be built across the Pitt River, alongside the railway bridge.
Ford was also politically active. He travelled to Victoria during the Depression years to help seek tax relief for the farmers and homeowners in Pitt Meadows. He proposed they work on projects such as hauling gravel, building roads and such in lieu of tax payment. The homeowners saved their farms and did all the work with horse and wagon.
Sherman was also fundamental in helping to secure a school bus for the outlying areas.
Ford was a Seventh-Day Adventist and built the present church at the corner of Harris and Ford Roads. His church group also built a log house and an academy, called the Manson Industrial Academy, on the road they aptly named Advent Road."
