![]() ![]() When he was commander of the Vancouver Barracks in the early 1850s, Gen. “People love this,” said Charles Ray, the city’s urban forester, as he handed out clippings from the area’s only surviving European pioneer, planted here in 1826 from seeds that sailed all the way from London - and considered the oldest apple tree in the Pacific Northwest. “If it had been last weekend, we would have been here in boats,” said one member of the rootsy band Another Shade of Bluegrass during a pause in the pickin’. ![]() He encouraged anyone who knows of a remarkable or historic local tree to consider nominating it for the city’s tree “hall of fame” - its Heritage Tree list.įantastic weather made for a fantastic Old Apple Tree Festival on Saturday, with hundreds of people turning out to absorb history and fresh-pressed cider in the sunshine. ![]() “Vancouver is a community that cares about its trees,” said urban forestry commissioner Tim Carper in his opening remarks at the Old Apple Tree Festival. ![]()
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