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[Bingo]

Not sure if any of you guys are also interested in Nanaimo? But I've got a Nanaimo pic up now. Couldn't find a VibrantNanaimo forum. :-)

http://vintageairphotos.com/55-7/

I don't know Nanaimo from that time, but that is the old Island Highway winding through the downtown area. The Gabriola Ferry terminal is out of sight on the left.

[MarkP]

Hi all, just working on what will probably be tomorrow's pic and I could use some help again. Does anyone know the site of the old C.P.S. Mill? I believe CPS stands for Canadian Puget Sound. I'm fairly sure it was in Victoria but I'm not sure where?

Thanks,
Mark

[aastra]

Pretty sure that would be the old mill site along the upper harbour/Gorge waterway north of the Point Ellice/Bay Street Bridge. Now known as the Selkirk Waterfront.

[Holden West]

Looks like it was in the Inner Harbour early on.

[aastra]

Is it the "sawmill" on the waterfront near Rock Bay in this old map?
http://vihistory.ca/...vicdowntown1884

I don't think I was aware that Government Street used to require a bridge to cross over Rock Bay.

[aastra]

You must be right. That area beside Rock Bay is labelled "Rock Bay Saw Mill (W.P. Sayward)" and "Lumber Yard" in other old maps.

John D. Kissinger arrived in Victoria in 1919 to take control of the Canadian Puget Sound Lumber and Timber Co.'s mill situated on Rock Bay, seaside from Store Street where it intersects with Princess St.

from: http://widgy.ca/irvine.htm

[Bingo]

Is it the "sawmill" on the waterfront near Rock Bay in this old map?
http://vihistory.ca/...vicdowntown1884

I don't think I was aware that Government Street used to require a bridge to cross over Rock Bay.

The bridge appears to be where Queens joins Government. Bay Street didn't go through and ended at Rock Bay. At one time the streetcars went across a bridge at Rock Bay from the car barn on Pembroke. Much of Rock Bay has been filled in since that early map.

[Hotel Mike]

I also noticed that there is a name given to the small point of land in Vic West, where the JSB crosses. It's called Limit Point. Hmm.

[MarkP]

Ok, here's a temporary link for the image: click

Once we figure out exactly where it is I'll create the actual post.

Thanks!!!

Mark

[VicHockeyFan]

Ok, here's a temporary link for the image: click

Once we figure out exactly where it is I'll create the actual post.

Thanks!!!

Mark

OK, so the biggest building there on the right with the black roof is the car barns. Bottom right you can see the shacks that are still covering the welding shop at Capital Iron and the tattoo store north of the back parking lot access road to Capital Iron.

[MarkP]

So are you saying the mill is at the corner of Pembroke Street and Store St.?

Mark

[VicHockeyFan]

So are you saying the mill is at the corner of Pembroke Street and Store St.?

Mark

Yes, the whole thing is on the site of the current Island Asphalt plant/yard at 2040 Store (at Pembroke).

http://maps.google.c...lumbia&t=h&z=16

Easy to see the crooked leg that is marked Rock Bay on the Google image.

[aastra]

That little apartment block at the corner of Kings Road and Douglas looks a bit like the Normandie on Cook Street.

[MarkP]

Ok, THANKS!!!!

Mark

[MarkP]

Full post is up: CPS Mill Site in Victoria

http://vintageairpho...com/bo-47-1457/

Mark

[MarkP]

Another in the same series, just North/East of the Johnson Street Bridge.

http://vintageairpho...com/bo-47-1456/

Mark

[Sparky]

^^ That appears to be the best shot of the Lansdown airstrip that BC Airways used. I wonder why the two trees are still standing. Maybe the picture was taken a few years before it was used as an airstrip.

[Bingo]

That could be the old Coast Guard base on the west side of the harbour at the bottom of the photo. The top of the lighthouse might be the one that is now on display in Bastion Square. There are mooring buoys and lengths of chain laying around.

At the bottom of Swift Street can be seen the city garbage wharf and burners. There are three truck dumping bins and a conveyor system that carries the garbage to the two scows tied to the wharf. The garbage was then dumped out in the straights.

Behind Capital Iron are two identical hulls (WWII Liberty ships maybe) that are likely being scrapped, since that was the business they were in at the time.

A good view of Memorial Arena under construction.

The Lansdowne Airfield was abandoned in 1931, many years before the aerial photo was taken of Victoria.
more:
http://victoriahisto...downe-airfield/

[Sparky]

^ Nice work Bingo. I was looking for something that ceased to exist.

[MarkP]

Just posted a new Victoria pic. This one just west of Beacon Hill Park. A little higher in altitude, so not quite as sharp, but still a great view of the area.

http://vintageairphotos.com/bo-54-142/

Mark