The next time you walk along Moody Avenue, or stroll though the recently created, impressive, Moodyville Park area, or drive along the Low Road past the imposing grain elevators, give a thought to a young, ambitious and savvy Yankee Trader named Sewell “Sew” Prescott Moody who developed and expanded the successful Moody Sawmill Company. He also established the first non-indigenous community on the shore of Burrard Inlet, Moodyville, where the grain elevators sit today with no evidence of the settlement. Fate intervened in his successful life and Sew went from being in the right place at the right time to being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Street Names in North Vancouver
The origin of the street names on the North Shore provides a fascinating history into the development of the North Shore as we know it today. This blog covers the people and places behind some of the names, starting with LONSDALE but also discussing Bridgman, Fell, Hamilton, Cloverley, Keith, Mahon, Moody, .Heywood, Pemberton, Whitchurch, Adderley and Shavington.