Roy

ROY, 60 km north of CAMPBELL RIVER on the mainland coast in Loughborough Inlet, started life as a MINING settlement in the 1890s. A few homesteads sprang up but LOGGING soon became the main employer. Northern Pacific Logging ran one of BC's first truck operations here in 1922, and a shingle mill in the vicinity employed 150. Postmaster D. McGregor named the place after the Scottish outlaw Rob Roy because Roy's real surname, MacGregor, was the same as his own.
by Andrew Scott

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