Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
2011.600.022 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Description |
Tractors and shovel at a hill. Written on the back: "Big Fill on Cow Bay / Road 1950 / Nortwest [sic] Shovel". Photograph is additionally captioned with: "The "Fill" road to Cowichan Bay" |
Image File Name |
1950 - Shovel & Tractors - Cowichan Bay - 2011600022 - jpg72 - 001 |
Date (y/m/d) |
1950/ / |
Place |
Cowichan Bay |
Provenance |
Part of a group of photographs depicting a logging road being constructed for the Shawnigan Lake Logging Company (MacMillan Bloedel Shawnigan Division). Breakdown of Bay Road costs amounted to $173,251.72 (~$1,816,702,89 in 2022). 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. MacBlo was purchased by Weyerhaeuser in 1999. |
Search Terms |
Cowichan Bay Shawnigan Lake Lumber Company MacMillan Bloedel M&B NorthWest Shovel Tractor Fill Road Bay Road |
Collection |
Documentary, Cowichan Valley |
People |
Kennah |
Subjects |
Road & Railway Construction Heavy Equipment |