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Photograph of Jim Fenton hitching a cart to one of the family's goats. The Fenton Farm was located at 705 Alderson

Vince Ruzicka's chicken farm, located at 1055 Como Lake. The Ruzicka family would later open a mushroom farm.

Vince Ruzicka's mushroom farm, which was located in the 800-block of Porter Street.

Photograph of the Hobbis family, including Gerald, Bessie, and Burt, with Bill Coping on their farm, which was located where Burquitlam Plaza resides now.

Photograph of Bessie and Nellie Hobbis beside the chicken house.

Photograph of the Bell Tower at Colony Farm during a flood in Coquitlam in 1921. Note that the building's first floor is almost completely submerged.

Photograph of George Shepherd feeding the ducks at Shepherd's Bush, a 10 acre farm at the corner of Clarke and Como Lake in 1924. Burquitlam Plaza occupies this site currently.

Photograph of the prize-winning Holstein cattle at the Colony Farm dairy

Photograph of a farmer working on Stickney Farm, which was located on Cameron Road and is now Lougheed Mall.