58 - Wednesday, Juty 27, 1988 - North Shore News

NORTH SHORE HISTORY

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From page 57
close down the mill, mill manager
Julius M. Fromme elected to take
over, forming the Lynn Valley
Lumber Co. Lid.

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Logging started later in West
Vancouver. George Marr
established a logging camp in the
Dundarave area shortly after 1900.
The MeNair brothers were also

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busy here, setting up a shingle
operation in the 10th Street and
Mathers Avenue area. Shingle
bolts were hauled by horse-drawn
sleds to booming grounds at the
foot of 16th Street.

Work started in 1907 on a stan-
dard gauge railway that went from
the 16th Street terminal through
the Odeon Theatre site and the
middle of the 1200-block In-
glewood, heading north and then
curving northeast at Palmerston
Avenue to cross Brothers Creek
(then Sisters Creek) on a pair of
trestles.

Two logging camps were located
near 11th Street and the site of the
first home in the British Proper-
ties,

The logs were trailed over the
railways by a locomotive referred
to as the ‘Walking Dudley.’ It
succeeded a 45-ton Heisler engine
which on its first descent locked
wheels and plunged into the bush
— after everyone had bailed out.
After a more successful career, the
Dudley also suffered a disasterous
run that ended in the salt chuck.

Taking on new partners, the
MeNair-Fraser Lumber Co. con-
tinued for some years, but had
ceased operation by 1917.

George Smith, a surveyor for
British Pacific Properties recalls
there being a shingle mill at I4th
Street and Esquimalt Avenue, in
addition to two lumber mills,
Mcintyre’s at Third Street and

important in the early

Photo courtesy North Shore Museum & Archives

SAILING SHIPS and the tug Lorne dock at the Moodyville Milling Co.

wharf, circa 1897.

Mathers Avenue and Naismiths in
Hollyburn.

Smith worked as a chokerman
around 1928 for the Capilano
Timber Co., named after an area
where rough terrain had served to
put off logging activity for a time.
A flume to carry shingle bolts was
built down the Capilano River in
1906 at the cost of several lives.
But railway track was the only way
to get the logs out.

Timber Iand above the water-
works dam was purchased by an

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American syndicate in 1906, and
later came into the possession of
A.B. Nickey family .of
Chicago. Incorporating in 1908,
the Capilano Timber Co. respond-
ed in 1917 to wartime demands
with the purchase of a millsite at
the foot of Pemberton Avenue.
Fram there a rail line was built,
running north to Marine Dr. and
west through Pemberton Heights.
Crossing the Capilano River, the
railway continued north to
Houlgate Creek, where a large,
400-foot trestle bridge was built.

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