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BO-48-3069 : Barnet Lumber Mill
This photo was originally labelled as being in Bennett, BC, but it was decided that this is incorrect. It is actually the “Best Wood Cedar Shingle Company” mill in Barnet, BC, now part of Burnaby located on the Burrard Inlet.
This is a great shot of the Lumber Mill while it was still there. You can see the rail cars loaded onto a barge. If anyone has more information on this site I would love to hear about it.
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I believe this is the location of the present day Chemtrade plant. Barnet mill was massive, this is much smaller. If you look at the curve in the tracks it matches, where Barnet is a straight shot. Also Barnet has much more at grade land South of the tracks than Chemtrade
Hello All
This is the old Best wood industries shingle mill
I worked there for many years until it closed in the mid 70’s
In the early 70’s all conveyors and shingle saws were still operated by one large steam engine.
I was there the day it ran for the last time as we switched over to back up electric drive and we never went back to the old steam engine
this mill was a working museum from the 1800’s
Hi all, there appears to be a problem here. Many people have reported that this is NOT the Bennett Lumber Mill as originally stated but in fact the Barnet Lumber Mill in Port Moody / Burnaby. I’ll see about getting this changed. Thanks to all who reported the issue.
This looks like Barnet, BC just west of Port Moody. The double track is the CPR and the Barnet highway is just up the hill parallel to the tracks.
There were several cedar shingle mills alongside the Lower Fraser River and I suspect this is one of them adjacent to the CPR main line. It is definitely not Bennett BC on the White Pass and Yukon which is actually very little changed and very isolated.
I believe photo is in Burnaby and is of both a shingle mill and the Nichols Chemical Plant in Barnet, Burnaby. The two tone building on the right is still standing today and is now the offices of General Chemicals. The large log boom in the foreground is probably for the Kapoor saw mill which would be to the right. In the upper left corner are tanks belonging to the B.A. Oil Company (now Suncor’s storage area). I believe the stockpile by the dock is iron sulfides used for chemical feed stock. For more information please see “In The Shadow By The Sea Recollection’s of Burnaby’s Barnet Village”
Folks, this is a typo and an ‘oops’. This photo is actuall the Barnet Lumber Company, earlier known as the North Pacific Lumber Company on the Barnet Highway at then Barnet, in Burnaby BC. Lots of photos and history available on the internet to correct this. Nice photo!
What an interesting set-up. There’s a rail-ferry slip that isn’t connected to what appear to be mainline tacks. If the location is Bennett, than the mainline tracks must be the White Pass & Yukon. There’s also very-narrow gauge trackage that appears to be for disposing of sawdust; you can see two of the tip cars. Oddly, the sawdust trackage passes a few feet over the slip trackage, with what must be a removable bridge (?).