Bush Mills

BUSH MILLS were small portable SAWMILLS used extensively throughout the Interior from the 1930s until the 1960s. It was easier to take a mill to the logging site and cut rough lumber in the woods than to transport logs to stationary sawmills. The lumber was then sold to planing mills in larger centres, where it was finished and dried. Bush mills were phased out with the growth of the Interior pulp industry: the need to utilize sawmill waste for pulp mill feedstock required the consolidation of...

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