Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
2021.072.042 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Description |
Hillcrest Lumber Company No. 11 locomotive at Mesachie Lake. A layer of snow can be seen on the ground and in the background is a mountain range. |
Image File Name |
1946 - No. 11 Shay - Mesachie Lake - 2021072042 - jpg72 - 001 |
Date (y/m/d) |
1946/ / |
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, 19 miles west of Duncan, BC past the town of Lake Cowichan (From: The Last Whistle - Hillcrest Lumber Company LTD by Cecil Ashley). |
Photographer |
Wright, H. |
Search Terms |
Shay Locomotive No. 11 Mesachie Lake Hillcrest Lumber Company Snow |
Collection |
Locomotives |
Subjects |
Locomotives Documentary, Cowichan Valley |