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The pleasant woodland stream ... sang its song and rippled in laughter to the timid deer in early morning as with noiseless tread it sought to quench its thirst before retiring to the covert of the wood, and the birds at noon-day flitted beneath the vine-mapes to sip its waters, and bathe with fluttering wing at some tiny sand-bar.
George Green, History of Burnaby Lake and Vlcinity, Shoemaker, McLean & Veitch Ltd., Vancouver, 1947, p. 147.
PLACE: Burnaby, B.C.
TIME: 1910
... the stream, which now and then babbled over a pebbly bed, or, where its waters were obstructed by the many rocks which here and there lay in the watercourse, it rippled and gurgled, singing its continuous song to the birds and animals, as it passed along: or again, in quieter mood, at some secluded bend where flowering shrub and willow copse lined and overhung its bank....
George Green, History of Burnaby Lake and Vlcinity, Shoemaker, McLean & Veitch Ltd., Vancouver, 1947, p. 4.
PLACE: Burnaby, B.C.
TIME: 1860's
..beautiful birds were twittering amid the rustling branches of the stately conifera. The dense forest around and beyond seemed to echo back the warming tones of the speaker's voice, and, as the congregation united their voices in songs of praise, the very trees seemed to lend their cadence in the melody."
(reference from Begg, page 310).
George Green, History of Burnaby Lake and Vicinity, Shoemaker, McLean & Veitch Ltd., Vancouver, 1947, p. 22.
PLACE: Burnaby, B.C.
TIME: 1899
Waterfowl in myriads swam on the tranquil bosom of the lake, and slept peacefully in the covert of the reeds beside the shore. Blue and willow grouse in goodly numbers rested at noonday amid the stately silent solitudes, as they sped down the shaded and quiet aisles of the well carpeted wood.
History of Burnaby Lake and Vicinity, George Green, Shoemaker, McLean & Veitch Ltd., Vancouver, 1947, p.41
PLACE: Burnaby Lake, B.C.
TIME: ca 1900
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