- Richard Moody 

When the colony of British Columbia was established in the year 1858, British Colonial Secretary, Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, dispatched a contingent of Her Majesty's Royal Engineers to the Pacific Northwest. The Royal Engineers under Colonel Richard Clements Moody had a profound influence on the territory they surveyed. Their names adorn towns and landmarks throughout the province and we drive upon the very routes they mapped out 150 years ago. Track 5 of Ghosts of the Mighty Fraser (1999) In the year of our Lord, eighteen-and-fifty-eight Lord Bulwer Lytton's Royal Engineers Arrived at Esquimalt Quay With officers handy, these men of esteem Had come here to harness the virgin frontier For Colony & Queen With tales by the score of heroes in war How daring adventurers have christened new shores Give me Victoria's stouthearted lads Who've served us well and truly Here is a health to you Royal Engineers And a cheer for Richard Moody! Who surveyed the borderline from the Pacific on through? Spanned raging rivers and quarreled through stone Building roads to the Cariboo? Who laid out each highway, townsite and city street? Upheld the Queen's law when necessity called As keepers of the peace Architects, tradesmen these engineers all Gentlemen scholars who answered the call With shovel and pack, by compass and map They tamed the wilds unruly Here is a health to your Royal Engineers And a cheer for Richard Moody! On July the eighteenth, eighteen and sixty-three That was the day that old England recalled her Royal Engineers Besides the few officers, many left their careers To try out their hand at a parcel of land, our colonial pioneers With tales by the score of heroes in war Or how daring adventurers christened new shores Give me Victoria's stouthearted lads Who've served us well and truly Here is a health to you Royal Engineers And a cheer to Richard Moody music and lyrics by Bruce Coughlan (SOCAN)