Heaps Mill
Offices, Store and Hotel
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| From 1899 until
they went bankrupt in 1913, Heaps had an important logging operation
in the Stave area — they took over from the co-operative that
in 1896 had started “Ruskin Mills.” |
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The
large building (on the right) housed the Heaps mill offices,
a store, and a hotel. It stood on the south side f the tracks
were Stave and Fraser rivers meet. Their mill was on the other
side of the tracks. |
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Building the new CPR bridge. New cement piers completed in
1912. Old wooden trestles are visible behind the new piers.
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The original wooden railway bridge over the Stave (1885). |
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The
tiny railway station in front of the Heaps Building shows
that Ruskin could have had a railway station in 1909 —or
was it a photographer’s trick? |
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