NORTH

SHORE

Local lumber
shipping
stays stable

LUMBER SHIPPPING remains a
stable, multi-million dollar
business in North Vancouver,

Although the North Shore's
sawmills and shake yards have
almost all disappeared over the
course of this century, North Van-
couver is still tied into B.C.’s larg-
est industry through the enormous
Seaboard Shipping Company
operation near the Second Nar-
rows Bridge.

The operation, affiliated with
Seaboard Lumber Sales Ltd., ex-
pois approximately $400 million
worth of lumber annually to desti-
nations as diverse as Australia and
North Africa, Japan and
Massachusetts.

Seaboard’s corporate secretary
Reginald Barclay says business is
stable.

“Housing starts in Japan are
pretty good,’’ Barclay says. ‘“‘I
think things are improving in
Europe."*

When asked about developments

1978 (before it truly opened up to
the West).”*

The company has offices
throughout the world. Seaboard’s
60-acre loading facility can handle
three ships ata time and loads 50
to 60 ships a year, each of which
carry approximately 20 million
board feet of lumber.

The company is a consortium
that handles marketing and shipp-
ing for numerous interior mills. It
was founded in 1919 but has been
on the North Shore since 1970,
when it found the site it wanted for
its shipping operations.

Anyone interested in the com-
pany can read its history, Wood
and Water, a local history
available in bookstores around the
Lower Mainland.

Although the North Stare mill-
ing industry has almost disap-
peared after the severe recession of
the early 1980s, 37-year-old Nova
Lumber Co. Ltd. continues to
operate successfully. As local
forests were logged and residential
areas on the North Shore
developed the North Shore milling

there. We've been in China since

Asia, Barclay says:‘‘ We're
wmmtury.

A MESSAGE FROM
MAYOR DON LANSKAIL

This is a special year for West Vancouver. The municipality
is celebrating its 75th anniversary, an exciting, nostalgic and
thought-provoking experience.

It has given us an opportunity to review our history. In
so doing, we realize afresh what is owed, not only to our
founding pioneers who in 1912 were successful in
establishing the basis for our parklike residential municipality,
but to succeeding councils and leaders who never lost sight
of that goal.

It could not have been easy. In 1912 the population was
700, the debt enormous and costly services needed in a
young community — roa 4s, sidewalks, a water main, schools,

erries.

West Vancouver, along with other municipalities in the pro-
vince, had struggled to survive the financial effects of a war
and a depression in the early decades. There are historical
signposts like this: 1920 — population 2,400; cash in bank
$5,831; tax arrears $103,000. Yet the next year we see land
had been purchased for Memorial Park.

Accumulation of land for parks has been one of the
strongest threads in West Vancouver's history. Purchasing
sites in times of financial difficulties was the rule not the
exception. The park goal was not only a council policy, it
extended to far-sighted residents of West Vancouver, and
is continuing today. They came forward with financial help
for park purchases, in effect becoming partners with the
municipal government in its
long-range park plans,

The wisdom is here for

all to see. Our parks are the
jewels of the municipality,
and as the municipality pro-
spered, the park bank grew.
Today we have 57 parks
covering just over 1,000
acres of land, shared not
only by residents on the
North Shore but our many
visitors from all over the
world.

operations steadily declined this

21 - Wednesday, July 29, 1987 - North Shore News

Photo submitted North Shore Museum & Archives
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