Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
2020.013.045 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Description |
Written on the lower right: "Raising Spar Tree, Nitinat Camp [Camp 3], Aug. 1948." |
Image File Name |
1948 - Raising Spar Tree - Camp 3 - 2020013045 - jpg72 - 001 |
Date (y/m/d) |
1948/08/ |
Place |
Camp 3, Nitinat |
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). From 1942 to 1968, Hillcrest Lumber Company was at Mesachie Lake. The mill closed when it no longer had an adequate timber supply. At its peak, it employed 450 people. There were 40 houses for employees and their families, a church, a school, a playing field and the community hall. Photograph is part of an album donated by Norman Stone, who was one of the Carlton's sons. |
Photographer |
Gold, Wilmer |
Search Terms |
Nitinat Spar Tree Railway Tracks Hillcrest Lumber Company Camp 3 Cable Logging |
Collection |
Documentary, Cowichan Valley |
People |
Stone Gold |
Subjects |
Yarding & Loading |