Painter's Lodge

PAINTER'S LODGE is a world-famous fishing resort at CAMPBELL RIVER on VANCOUVER ISLAND. Ned Painter was a boat builder who arrived in Campbell River with his wife June in 1924. He built wooden rowboats and sold and rented them, and in 1926 the couple opened a rustic camp, known as Spit Camp, at the mouth of the river. In 1930 they built a small cottage resort and in 1938 opened Painter's Lodge. Over the years it became associated with the growth of SALMON fishing (see also FISHING, SPORT) at...

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