Sewell Moody
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Moody moved to the Burrard Inlet in 1865, eventually acquiring a bankrupt water-powered sawmill, and established the first non-native settlement in the area, in what is now North Vancouver.[1] Initially known as "Moody's Mills", in 1872 it was formally named Moodyville.[1] Under a firm but paternalistic hand, he provided the settlement with a library and reading room, religious services, a masonic lodge and a school, each being the first on Burrard Inlet, and also funded the extension of the telegraph service from New Westminster.[3][1] At the same time, he forbade gambling and the sale of alcohol.[4] In July 1869, Moody married Janet Watson (1849-1901) and they had two children,[4] Florence and Sewell Prescott Jr. Moody's lumber business was successful, supplying markets in Great Britain and around the Pacific Rim, and adding a larger steam-powered mill in 1868.[5][1] This mill was burned in December 1873, but replaced with another, powered by the steam engines from retired warship Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"..[1]
Moody died on November 4, 1875, in the sinking of the passenger steamer SS Pacific following a collision off Cape Flattery, Washington.[4][1]
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- 1830s births
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- 19th-century Canadian businesspeople
- People from Somerset County, Maine
- People lost at sea
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