Goldsborough/Goldsbrough, George

George Goldsborough/Goldsbrough was on construction work for Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) and later a government road foreman (Hope to Keremeos) around 1890 to 1921(?). He supervised work on the Five Mile Bridge and work below Twenty Mile, the Roche River Trail in 1901. He replaced the first bridge (1885) with a new one in 1902. In 1904, he had men working 10 hours per diem at $2.50. That same year, during August, “with fires raging all over the district,” he had men working to keep the roads clear. In November 1904, he was focusing on the road between Princeton and Hedley as it was “in very bad condition through cattle-driving over it.” In July 1907, the Similkameen Star reported that Goldsborough was having difficulty recruiting road workers. 

He was a member of the Princeton Conservative Club, elected delegate to the convention at Fairview August 15, 1903. He won a case against Fracas for $86.25 and costs in October 1914. He donated money (5.00) to the machine gun fund in 1915. 

Goldsborough applied for a renewal of his hotel license to sell liquor at the Allison Hotel, Allison, BC. He also bought out his partner, A. Worgan. (Mrs. Worgan ran the kitchen at the hotel)

Mrs. Allison started a school in a small building on the Goldsborough place in 1900, “as a frank inducement to settlement in the Allison townsite…Mrs. Allison herself taught for a time and Miss Emily Hagerman later took over these duties.”

Goldsborough also took a ranch on D’Arcy mountain, later owned by A.D. Broomfield.

They left Princeton at some point between 1921 (when he was contracted to paint the new Howe truss bridge across the Tulameen River) and 1928 (when the Similkameen Star reported that the house belonging to the Goldsborough estate had burned down). 

They moved to Grove Hill, Middlesbrough, England.