"Yes, Hughie, I remember how he rigged his company out, making us really believe he was the manager of a real 'City Theatrical Troupe.'  But he was a clever chap, for didn't he and his fellow actors help to make us laugh, and thus amuse us?"

GR-1168
UNITED KINGDOM.  ARMY. ROYAL ENGINEERS.  COLUMBIA DETACHMENT.
Originals, 1858, 2 cm

Notebook of tables for the observation and recording of meteorological records, kept by Corporal Alfred R. Howse.  Includes table of corrections to reduce barometric readings to 32
degrees Fahrenheit, table of factors for computing the dew point, table of the elastic force of vapor below zero, corrections to barometers for capillary action, etc.

--from BC Archives, GR-1121, Textual records

"...I should send up some beds, etc.,  and as one of our Women are going up there i should beg her to have the beds sheeted and ready for the Children is case of our arriving late in the evening."

-- 28th June, 1860,
From The Letters of Mary S. Moody

"You will be glad to hear that I am in great hopes of succeeding in persuading Mrs. Howse, one of the Soldier's Wives, to return to England.  She is here now (Fort Hope) and is most useful, in helping with the Washing, looking after Baby, etc., etc..  Her husband is here on Duty, and she is in a Tent "hard by".  She is a most respectable Scotch Woman and I tell her I am sure she ought to go to Edinburgh to see her old Mother, and I was glad to find today that they have been talking it over very seriously.  She is elderly with no Children.  They were in Edinburgh on the Survey, while we were there, and they recollect us very well.  Should I not be fortunate is she would go?  So much better than having a young girl."

-- 15th August, 1860,
From The Letters of Mary S. Moody

"...Mrs. Howse, the Soldier's Wife, still talks of going to England with us.  It will be such a comfort if she does and I am sure she would remain with me a few days till I got a Nurse.  I think she and her husband may come and live with us this Winter.  She would do the washing in the house, and help in any other little ways.  She would always look after Baby for me when I was out, he, of course, would merely live and have his meals with the others, as Sergeant Bonson did.  It is not quite arranged yet but I think it will answer.  They are both most respectable people.  She is the only woman in the Detachment who goes regularly to Church twice every Sunday."

-- 1st October, 1860,
From The Letters of Mary S. Moody

The British Columbian, June 19th 1863

The following is the score of the return match played between the Pioneer and Engineer's Cricket Clubs in this city:

Pioneer Club

Pooley, st. Osmet..............8
Knipe, lbw, Haynes.............30
Smith, run out.................1
Sheepshanks, b. Edwards.........2
Howman, ct. Wolfenden, b. Haynes...3
Bacon, ct. Howse, b. Edwards...3
Pritchard, not out.....15
Claudet, ct. Haynes, b. Edwards..13
Cole, b. Haynes....0
Fisher, ct. Wolfenden, b. Edwards...1
Byes...6
Wides....17
Leg byes...1
Total 112

Royal Engineers' Club

Wolfenden, run out...3
Hand, ct. Bacon, b. Smith....1
Osmet, not out...22
Haynes, b. Smith...5
Butler, b. Bacon....9
Howse, ct. Pooley, b. Smith....1
Luard, b. Bacon.....2
Edwards, lbw, b. Smith....4
Meade, ct. Smith...4
Brown, ct. Pooley, b. Bacon....1
McMoran, b. Smith....3
Byes....20
Wides....9
Total 84

This return match between the New Westminster Pioneer Cricket Club and the Royal Engineers' Cricket Club came off yesterday.  On account of the unfavorable weather it was agreed to decide the game with one innings, the result of which was that the R.E. Club was beaten by 28 runs.