Hasting's Mill

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.

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.