{"id":24902,"date":"2014-05-15T14:45:01","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T21:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/?p=24902"},"modified":"2019-01-03T09:10:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T17:10:36","slug":"first-growth-lumber-vancouvers-early-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2014\/05\/15\/first-growth-lumber-vancouvers-early-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"First Growth Lumber: Vancouver\u2019s Early Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The west coast once supported some of the largest trees in the world including Douglas fir, cedar, hemlock, pine, spruce, maple and yew. Some of those trees were over 1,000 years old and almost 100 metres (325ft) tall. When Colonials first arrived on the west coast, they saw huge potential in all of that untouched lumber, setting up housing and milling operations that would become Vancouver and its first industry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24904\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24904\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/05\/VPL-2976-Sailing-ship-at-Hastings-Mill-190-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24904\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/05\/VPL-2976-Sailing-ship-at-Hastings-Mill-190-.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Credit: Sailing ship and steamer at Hastings Mill. C 1900 VPL 2976\" width=\"550\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/05\/VPL-2976-Sailing-ship-at-Hastings-Mill-190-.jpg 550w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/05\/VPL-2976-Sailing-ship-at-Hastings-Mill-190--300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Sailing ship and steamer at Hastings Mill. C 1900 VPL 2976<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The first lumber mills on Burrard Inlet were on the North Vancouver side, but Vancouver\u2019s first mill was Hastings Mill, opened in 1865 at the foot of Dunlevy Street set up by Captain Edward Stamp next to an established First Nations settlement, Ee\u2019yullmough. The success of the mill led to many other of Vancouver\u2019s firsts including the first saloon, Gassy Jack\u2019s Globe Saloon. 1865 was also the year that lumber surpassed the area\u2019s previous major economic source, gold mining.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hastings Mill provided bunks with board for single workers, and lumber to build homes for those with families. This created company \u201ctowns\u201d in the surrounding areas with names such as Brigham Terrace, the Rookeries, Frenchtown, Kanaka Row, Knob Hill and Maiden Lane. The mills continued to draw new workers and by the 1880s the frontier logging village known as Granville became the emerging city of Vancouver. Pre-1900 Vancouver was a boomtown of over 10,000 workers that boasted electricity, telephones, sidewalks, piped water, parks and even an opera house. Even as canning emerged as a major industry in the late 1880s, lumber was still a major export as the high quality wood was highly desirable. BC lumber was even shipped to China for use in the Imperial Palace.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24906\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24906\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/05\/VPL-741-ships-loading-at-Hastings-Mill-1906.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24906 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/05\/VPL-741-ships-loading-at-Hastings-Mill-1906.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: Ships loading at Hastings Mill. 1906. VPL 741\" width=\"550\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/05\/VPL-741-ships-loading-at-Hastings-Mill-1906.jpg 550w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/05\/VPL-741-ships-loading-at-Hastings-Mill-1906-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24906\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Ships loading at Hastings Mill. 1906. VPL 741<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the 1890s, as surrounding land became more deforested, steam tugs carted northern supplies of lumber down the coast to the area\u2019s mills, prolonging the run of the industry. However, by the 1900s logging was winding down. Vancouver was growing as an urban centre with a developing streetcar network, the Canadian Pacific Railway firmly established as a major employer and the predominant developer, with several areas sited as the next up and coming neighbourhood including Grandview, Kitsilano and Shaughnessy Heights. Shaughnessy would win out as the favoured affluent neighbourhood after an influx of CPR money, and False Creek would become the new industrial centre where sawmills and shingle mills still operated, but steel and canning were quickly growing. The area around Hastings Mill would remain a mainly blue collar neighbourhood, but become heavily residential as the city was no longer centered in what is now Gastown.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24907\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24907\" style=\"width: 315px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/05\/CVA-1435-470-Scene-in-Gastown-1970.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24907\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/05\/CVA-1435-470-Scene-in-Gastown-1970.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: Scene in Gastown. 1970 CVA 1435-470\" width=\"315\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/05\/CVA-1435-470-Scene-in-Gastown-1970.jpg 315w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/05\/CVA-1435-470-Scene-in-Gastown-1970-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24907\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Scene in Gastown. 1970 CVA 1435-470<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There is still plenty of evidence of Vancouver\u2019s abundant lumber found in homes throughout Vancouver. In the Hastings-Sunrise area early homes still exhibit extensive use of lumber in flooring, paneling, coving and cabinetry, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.landofrugs.com\/rugs\/extra-large-room-size\">large rugs<\/a> were only seen in houses of a higher status. The wood found in these early homes is unsurpassed in quality, as the trees produced finely grained, unknotted, straight boards without parallel in modern supply.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24909\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24909\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/05\/MKPhoto-4323.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24909 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/05\/MKPhoto-4323-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: Martin Knowles Photo\/Media\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/05\/MKPhoto-4323-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/05\/MKPhoto-4323-600x900.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/05\/MKPhoto-4323-626x940.jpg 626w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/05\/MKPhoto-4323.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24909\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Martin Knowles Photo\/Media<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Come see some of this amazing early lumber use on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouverheritagefoundation.org\/take-a-tour\/heritage-house-tour\/\">2014 Heritage House Tour<\/a>. VHF is featuring several homes that showcase first growth lumber, including one in Hastings-Sunrise built by a lumber foreman (pictured above).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Research:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"> &#8220;Vancouver&#8217;s First Century: A city album 1860-1960&#8221;. JJ Douglas, 1977.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"> &#8220;Vancouver: A Visual History&#8221;. Bruce MacDonald, 1992.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"> &#8220;The Greater Vancouver Book&#8221;. Chuck Davis, 1997.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The west coast once supported some of the largest trees in the world including Douglas fir, cedar, hemlock, pine, spruce, maple and yew. Some of those trees were over 1,000 years old and almost 100 metres (325ft) tall. 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