Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
1983.002.011 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Description |
Hillcrest Mill at Masachie Lake, B.C. Log booming in the water is also visible. "W.H. Gold Photographer" stamped on the back. |
Image File Name |
1940s - Hillcrest Mill - Masachie Lake - 1983002011 - jpg72 - 001 |
Date (y/m/d) |
1940/ / |
Place |
Masachie Lake |
Provenance |
In 1917, Carlton Stone built a sawmill in Sahtlam, BC, five miles west of Duncan, BC on Vancouver Island. It was destined to become the largest independently owned family sawmill in British Columbia, employing some 300 employees in the sawmill / planer mill complex and another 50 in the logging division. The company operated in Sahtlam from 1917 to 1943 and when the timber was depleted, Stone moved the whole operation lock, stock and barrel by rail to Mesachie Lake, BC, 20 km west of Duncan, BC past the town of Lake Cowichan (From: The Last Whistle - Hillcrest Lumber Company LTD by Cecil Ashley). |
Photographer |
Gold, Wilmer |
Search Terms |
Hillcrest Mesachie Lake Sawmill Log boom booming grounds |
Collection |
Sawmilling |
People |
Gold Stone |
Subjects |
Sawmill Boom & Dryland Sort |