Photo Record
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Catalog Number |
2018.057.065 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Description |
Hillcrest Lumber Company No. 10 locomotive with track mounted steam crane loading logs onto its flatcars. It is a standard gauge 3 truck Class "C" limax steam engine, built May of 1928 by the Climax Manufacturing Company. Undated but as this is during Hillcrest Lumber Company's logging operations at Mesachie Lake, it is c. 1942 - 1968. |
Image File Name |
unk - Hillcrest No. 10 & Steam Crane - Mesachie Lake - 2018057065 - jpg72 - 001 |
Year Range from |
1942 |
Year Range to |
1968 |
Date (y/m/d) |
/ / |
Place |
Mesachie 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 Flatcar railroad tracks Mesachie Lake No. 10 Locomotive Climax Mt. Rainier Railroad & Logging Museum. |
Collection |
Locomotives |
People |
Hatfull Stone |
Subjects |
Locomotives Documentary, Cowichan Valley Railway Vehicles |