 In British Columbia, Moody ‘wanted to build a city of beauty in the wilderness’ and planned his city as an iconic visual metaphor for British dominance, ‘styled and located with the objective of reinforcing the authority of the Crown and of the robe’.Subsequent to the enactment of the Pre-emption Act of 1860, Moody settled the Lower Mainland.He selected the site and founded the new capital, New Westminster.