“SUE” SEWELL Prescott
Moody arrived from Maine
and established S.P. Mcody
- & Co., the fourth mill ven-
ture on Burrard Inlet’s
north shore, which later
became known as Moody,
Nelson & Co. Moody was
one of the province’s | first

- conscientious’ businessmen’

and the mill’ town,
Moodyville, was . named
after him.

This small community boasted
a school, library, and electric
lights, Juxuries as yet unknown to
Victoria, New Westminster or any
settlement.north of San Francisco.

The site for the sawmill was on
deep: water with plenty of fresh
water from Lynn Creek easily ac-
cessible by a fiume. Established in
1862, it was the first industry on
the inlet.

According to John Busnes in his
book “North Vancouver 189]-
1907, ‘‘The vessels were chiefly
sailing ships although at times
lramp steamers were loaded there,
chiefly to take lumber to the
United Kingdom. . .

“The sawmill itself tay parallel
to the shoreline, thus providing on
the south side a place for steamers
to tie up. But at the east end the
sailing ships tied up.’’ This is
what is pictured in the illustration
above, sketched from a
photograph taken at the time.

‘Sailing ships came to
Moodyville from all parts of the
world to load lumber. There were
many vessels from Peru and
Chile, also other South American
countries as well as some from
Great Britain. When they left the
wharf: with a full load of lumber,
a caiinon would be fired to salute

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NORTH SHOR
HERITAGE
by Dorothy Foster

Burnes writes that when the
ships arrived, the crew would
usually desert because of the
number of weeks it took to load
the lumber. The ship then lay at
anchor in the harbor waiting for a
new crew. “‘... if she needed a
new crew, it would be provided
for the sailing master mostly by
crimps who would shanghai the
men in some saloon in Vancouver.
The new crew would be brought
out during the night and then the
captain would again board his
vessel. Many times he would also
be ‘three sheets to the wind’ when
he came aboard his vessel.”’

The milltown of Moodyville no
longer exists, and Sue Moody died
before .he saw its full develop-

ment. He drowned in 1875 when
the steamer Pacific went down off
Cape Flattery on its way to San
Francisco. .

Shortly after, a piece of
wreckage (a board), washed up on
Beacon Hill Park shore in Vic-
toria..On it was ‘‘S.P. Moody all
lost’? pencilled in on the paint’s
surface. His last message on this

piece of wood is on display at the.

Pres-
along

Moodyville exhibition at
entation House Museum,
with other artifacts.

There is also a heritage walking
tour of the Moodyville site, May 2
at 2 p.m., with the museum cu-
rator John Stuart and historian
Roy Pallant. This is the second
walling tour on Moodyville.

I joined in on the first one and
spent an enjoyable and educa-
tional afternoon. A walking com-
panion turned out to be . Sewell
Moody’s . granddaughter, who
resides in West Vancouver.

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