Millar Addition

It is named in honor of its developer, Charles Vance Millar,[1] who later became famous for leaving behind the most notorious will in Canadian history, which was the catalyst for the Stork Derby.

[2] When the construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway was announced in the early 1900s, many new towns were built and promoted along the proposed route.

[3] As the negotiations dragged on, an agent for Charles Millar, then the owner of the BC Express Company, successfully made a deal with the Chief and their spokesman, Father Nicolas Coccola.

When the railway learned that yet another townsite was going to be built on the very land they wanted the most they appealed to Ottawa and Millar's deal was negated.

[5] It has been theorized that the railway resented having to sell the land to Millar and struck back by building low-level bridges on the upper Fraser River, effectively blocking one of Millar's sternwheelers, the BC Express, from working on her profitable route from Fort George to Tête Jaune Cache.