In 1865 Captain Edward Stump formed a English company and
revived English capitol to produce lumber in British Columbia. In 1867 he
opened the doors to Stump’s Mill, located on the
Burrard Inlet at the foot of
the current Dunlevy street.
Stump only worked in the lumbar business for two years.
After his retirement the doors of Stump’s Mill soon closed and was liquidated.
After its closer the mill was bought by an Americans company, and renamed to
Hasting’s Mill.
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The Hasting's Mill Store relocated to Point Grey where
it currently stands as a museum. |
Hastings Mill had a large effect on the development of
Vancouver. The early settlement was made to be a company town. People shopped
in Hasting’s Mill store, and kids went to Hasting’s mill school. This was
changed when the Canadian Pacific Railway choose Vancouver to be it’s terminus.
The lumbar industry very important to BC and Vancouver, and was the backbone of
the early development of Vancouver.
Hasting’s Mill “ was the nucleus around which the city of
Vancouver grew in the 1820’s” (Davis, C., A Brief history of Greater Vancouver). It remained the hub of the Vancouver economy
until the 1920’s. The location of the Hastings Mill is no longer a mill today,
but remains a shipping port for containers.