Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
2018.057.067 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Description |
A Hillcrest Lumber Company logging truck loaded with logs at a dock. It is about to dump its logs into the water (Cowichan Lake) so that the logs can be boomed. |
Image File Name |
1946 - Hillcrest Hayes Truck - Cowichan Lake - 2018057067 - jpg72 - 001 |
Date (y/m/d) |
1946/07/ |
Place |
Cowichan 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, 19 miles west of Duncan, BC past the town of Lake Cowichan (From: The Last Whistle - Hillcrest Lumber Company LTD by Cecil Ashley). The work force of Hillcrest was made of five ethnic groups: European, Chinese, Japanese, East Indians and First Nations. Wages did not depend on ethnicity but rather on skill. |
Search Terms |
Hillcrest Lumber Company Hayes Cowichan Lake Log Boom Booming Grounds Logging Truck People A-Frame |
Collection |
Transportation |
People |
Hatfull Stone |
Subjects |
Hauling Documentary, Cowichan Valley Boom & Dryland Sort |