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Priest's Room
This room was actually the boy's room, but it was used by visiting priests when they came to do Sunday mass before the church was built. While the priest stayed in this room, the boys would stay in the dairy, or milk room, which is now the residence of the Haney House caretakers. The bed was purchased by James and Elizabeth Hawley in 1917, the year they were married, and the dark wood dresser and washstand were purchased by Thomas Haney in 1917. The Crucifix is from the first Catholic Church on River Road (St. Patrick's). It was originally donated to the Church by Thomas Haney and is believed to be well over 100 years old. The wooden rosary beads were given to Anne Haney by a local soldier of WWI who had found them overseas in a church that had been bombed.
The wooden trunk was brought across the country from Ontario by Anne Haney when she came to Port Haney in 1876-1878. Have a look at the curved surface of the trunk, which shows that the Haneys had a higher socioeconomic status, perhaps upper middle class. Because the surface is curved, it must go on top of all the other trunks as they would not be able to balance on this surface. This ensured that this trunk would not get crushed, would be the last one put on the ship, and the first one off. Anne went by train from San Francisco, up the coast to New Westminster by ship, and from there to Port Haney on one of Captain William Irving's ships.
There are many more items in these rooms to come out and see that play an important part in the history of the Haney family.