Westminster Daily News
data provider: CONTENTdm
alternative: [New Westminster Daily News]
issued: 2015-11-18
issued: 1912-08-09
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note: ��� mm 7 f �� 1? o- "O a.' BER 132. KIP /OT TO feflATE SOON NANAIMO MEMBER IS AGAINST CHANGE British Canadian Lumber Company Possesses Mafty Unique Features. NEW WESTMINSTE! Two Hundred and Fifty Men Putting Finishing Touchet���Quarter Million Feet Daily Cut. Mr. Shepherd Think* that Oil Burner* in Fruhling Would Be III Advised ���Letter. NEW IMPERIAL APPEAL COURT Against the background of a colossal unpainted steel roofed structure reared upon the bank of the river, a white jet of cloudy steam shot skyward and the long drawn note of the siren a moment later proclaimed that lt was time for two hundred and fifty men to take up the burden of their daily toil. This seemingly commonplace Incident which occurred yesterday morning at the plant of the British Canadian Lumber company, now under construction ou Lulu Island was remarkable on account of the fact that it was the flrst time the whistle had ever awakened the echoe3 cf the island. It heralded also, to all and sundry, that the completion of the mill was approaching, and that very soon the capacious engine room would hum and pant and sweat with mechanical life, that the wheel 3 and saws would soon be turning in the saw mill and that the fallen levan- thians of the forest would come dripping up the chute from Father Eraser to be sawed and hacked and trimmed and shaped into the sizes of finished lumber that man had devised means to manufacture. Site and Cost. It is nearly a year ago since the British Canadian Lumber company cf Vancouver, a ccrroration composed of Canadian and old country interests, as the name would imply, first com- menoed construction work upon the mill. Korty acres of ground was purchased and plans were envolved for the erection of a mill capable cf competing with such mammoth concern-. as the Fraser Mills, and other Industries of a lll��> nature operating on the river. The cost of the plant was estimated tri bo considerably over n million and a half dollar*, and the equipment wan planned to be on …
note: Titled The Daily News from 1906-03-06 to 1912-04-24; Westminster Daily News from 1912-04-25 to 1912-12-04; and The New Westminster News from 1912-12-05 to 1914-09-04. Published by The Daily News Publishing Company, Limited from 1903-03-06 to 1912-04-24; and The National Printing and Publishing Co., Ltd. from 1912-04-25 to 1914-09-04.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: New Westminster (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0317956
language: English
lat: 49.206667
long: -122.910556
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: New Westminster, B.C. : The National Printing and Publishing Co., Ltd.
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text