Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
1990.040.004 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Description |
Watchman's Shanty at Kelsey Bay, Salmon River. It is a small wooden building placed next to railway tracks. A Watchman's Shanty would also be called a gatehouse. Before electronically-triggered crossing gates were commonplace, railroads would typically keep an employee at busy crossings to lower gates and stop traffic when trains approached. |
Image File Name |
1943-45 - Watchman's Shack - Kelsey Bay - 1990040004 - jpg72 - 001 |
Year Range from |
1943 |
Year Range to |
1945 |
Place |
Kelsey Bay, Salmon River |
Provenance |
In 1937 Timberland Lumber Company entered into an association with P.B. Anderson in the formation of the Salmon River Logging Company, with J.G. Robson as president. Salmon River Logging Company had a camp between Kelsey Bay and the river mouth which included homes for its employees. MacMillan Bloedel eventually acquired the camp and it became known as the Kelsey Bay Division (From: the New Westminster Archives). The donor, E.E. Robinson, worked as a Log Scaler from 1943-45 at Salmon River. A Scaler measures the cut trees to determine the scale and quality of the wood. MacMillan Bloedel Limited was a Canadian forestry company with headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia. In 1951 Bloedel, Stewart and Welch merged with H.R. MacMillan to form MacMillan Bloedel Limited. Bloedel, Stewart and Welch held many timber resources and MacMillan was the first truly integrated forestry company in British Columbia. The two companies had timber holdings side-by-side and there was a natural synergy from this merger. In 1959 Macmillan Bloedel merged with a third company, Powell River Limited. |
Search Terms |
Kelsey Bay Salmon River Salmon River Logging Company Watchman's Shanty Gatehouse Railway tracks Shack Timberland Logging Company M&B MacMillan Bleodel |
Collection |
Buildings & Structures |
People |
Robinson Robson Anderson |
Subjects |
Documentary, Vancouver Island Buildings & Structures |