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on the Chemical Works was just down by where the fish "Scenic". plant was. I used to go down to the Barnet Mill, wander through there, and the only thing I had to worry about was the They had a huge carrier, a mobile carrier up top, they lumber carriers. called the gurney. It used to run on tracks and they used

-1914 was fuelled by an expanding provincial economy that was based on the growth of the mining and lumber trade and rapid immigration. Burnaby, located between two expanding urban centers, achieved tremendous growth as the expansion of the local electric railway system, steam railroads and highways

for this amazingly nominal cost was that the furnishings were used as needed ballast in the lumber ships that sailed empty of commercial cargo from the Old Country to British Columbia where they were loaded with lumber for the European market. Many early settlers in this Province brought their belongings to their

..................................................................................................................................................................38 TABLE OF CONTENTS A 1908 photograph taken at the North Pacific Lumber Mill includes European, Chinese, and Sikh workers. 1908, VPL 7642 5 �For many centuries, people from the southern part of China have migrated to places such as Southeast Asia to work and establish businesses. Chinese migrants