Limekiln Bay

Limekiln Bay (49˚47'00" 124˚38'00" NW end of Texada I, Str of Georgia). Texada I’s rich limestone deposits have been exploited since the 1880s. In the early days the mineral was heated in simple stone or brick kilns directly on the island’s shores in order to produce lime, which has a great number of industrial uses, especially in the production of plaster, cement, fertilizer and pulp and paper. Several lime kilns were erected on this bay in the early 1900s and taken over by the Pacific...

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