Boat Crash in Stave Lake
In the mid-20th century, Stave Lake was a popular logging site for the Abernethy and Lougheed Logging Company. Loggers would take their felled logs to … Read More
Western Canada Power Company Railway
In 1910 the Western Canada Power Company was authorized to build a railway line from its works on the Stave River, to a point on … Read More
Hammond Mill Hires Girls
A lengthy article in the “Pacific Coast Lumberman” magazine of June, 1918, describes how Hammond Cedar, under the direction of part owner and manager Doan … Read More
Hammond Cedar Mill
The first sawmill that opened in Port Hammond on the site on Maple Crescent in 1910 was the Bailey Lumber Company, and in 1912, it … Read More
Alouette Dam
The history of the Alouette Dam begins with a now defunct private power company, the Western Canada Power Company, which in 1909 was granted the … Read More
Abernethy & Lougheed Logging Company
The Abernethy and Lougheed Logging Company (A&L) was throughout Haney and the forested areas north of the community. The company was the largest railway logging … Read More
Edward H. Heaps Enterprises
“Edward Hewetson Heaps, of the firm of E. H. Heaps & Company, is occupying a leading position as a lumber manufacturer of the province of … Read More
The End of Big Logging
1926 began with promise for the sons of Mossom Martin Boyd. Gardiner, Laurie, and Mossom deGrassi had inherited their father’s logging business and transformed it … Read More
Port Haney Brick and Tile Company
In 1907 on the former Hinch Road (225th Street), W. Horie, E. Baynes and H. Burnet purchased a riverside lot from a Mr. Carlson and … Read More