Moody, Sewell Prescott

MOODY, Sewell Prescott, pioneer lumberman (b circa 1835, Hartland, ME; d 4 Nov 1875, at sea near Victoria). He came to BC as a young man and began working in a local SAWMILL before opening a butcher shop in NEW WESTMINSTER. He built the first significant sawmill there, and in 1865 bought Pioneer Mills on the north shore of BURRARD INLET. He expanded the capacity of the mill and became the first large-scale exporter of lumber in BC. The settlement that built up around the mill was called...

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