Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
2018.057.068 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Description |
Hillcrest Lumber Company. Load of logs being dumped into Cowichan Lake. An A-frame, the framework of timbers next to the truck, is used for dumping the logs into the water. |
Image File Name |
1946 - Hillcrest Dumping Logs - Cowichan Lake - 2018057068 - 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 Log dump |
Collection |
Transportation |
People |
Hatfull Stone |
Subjects |
Hauling Boom & Dryland Sorting Documentary, Cowichan Valley |