Sawmills

Group photo of the "donkey" crew on Hill 60, Kapoor Lumber Company, Sooke Lake. South Asian-owned Kapoor Lumber Company at Sooke Lake was notorious for paying lower wages to its Asian workers. For this reason it was a target for union organizing in the 1940s

Portrait of a Sikh millworker at the Fraser Mills. Fraser Mills (Canadian Western Lumber Company) was a vast lumber plant on the north shore of the Fraser River, in what was then the Francophone community of Maillardville – now a suburb of Coquitlam.

Group photo of lumber mills workers at the Fraser Mills. Fraser Mills (Canadian Western Lumber Company) was a vast lumber plant on the north shore of the Fraser River, in what was then the Francophone community of Maillardville – now a suburb of Coquitlam.

Photo of lumber miill workers at the Fraser Mills. Fraser Mills (Canadian Western Lumber Company) was a vast lumber plant on the north shore of the Fraser River, in what was then the Francophone community of Maillardville – now a suburb of Coquitlam.

Group photo of Sikh sawmill workers.

Group photo of sawmill workers in Youbou, BC.

Province of BC annual report regarding the Sawmills West of Cascades.

Group photo of Sikh lumber mill workers at the Hillcrest Lumber Company, Sahtlam, BC.

Creator: Timms, Philip

Group photo of lumber mill workers at the North Pacific Lumber Company.

Photo of a bunkhouse and cookhouse, Youbou, BC for the South Asian labourers.