Royston

ROYSTON, pop 699, is a seafront community on the east side of VANCOUVER ISLAND, 5 km south of COURTENAY. For many years it was the terminus of a logging railway (see RWY LOGGING) owned by the Comox Logging and Railway Co that began LOGGING the central interior of the Island pre-WWI. The railway hauled the logs to tidewater at Royston, where they were gathered in booms for towing south to the mills. The logging and LOG BOOMING operations are gone, but offshore the remains of several wrecks have...

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