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1922 -- Clara and John Lyell and their home in Halfmoon Bay. Clara had
emigrated from England to Vancouver where she met and married Charles
Priestland. They pre-empted 160 acres, including waterfront, at the head
of Halfmoon Bay. There she built a house and became postmistress at the
Welcome Pass Post Office, later renamed, in 1910, Halfmoon Bay P.O. After
her husband, who had remained in Vancouver, died, she married John Lyell,
a local fisherman. Years later he was accused of murdering Bob Rainey
after an argument but whether he was guilty or not, he disappeared and
it remains one of Halfmoon Bay's mysteries. Clara died in 1933 at St.
Mary's Hospital in Pender Harbour.
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