Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
2022.112.001 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Description |
A Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company logging camp at Lake Cowichan. |
Image File Name |
unk - VL&M Camp - Lake Cowichan - 2022112001 - jpg72 - 001 |
Place |
Lake Cowichan |
Provenance |
The Victoria Lumber & Manufacturing Company (VL&M) was incorporated in 1889 by J.A. Humbird, a US lumberman and protégé of Frederick Weyerhaeuser. He purchased 100,000 acres (400 sq km) from the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway for $5 an acre, and a small sawmill in Chemainus. In 1893 VL&M built a new mill, which burnt in 1923 and was subsequently rebuilt in 1925. VL&M went into voluntarily receivership in 1944 and was purchased by the HR MacMillan Export Co. in 1949. |
Search Terms |
Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company VL&M Logging camp Bunkhouses Railway tracks |
Collection |
Documentary, Cowichan Valley |
Subjects |
Camp Buildings & Structures |