People uprooted from Lynn Valley (2)

Lynn Valley, on the northern edge of Metro Vancouver, was pre-empted in the 1860s and established as a mill town in 1906. Logging began in the area in the 1870s. The Upper Mill opened above Dempsey Road in 1903 and was sold to the Lynn Valley Lumber Company in 1906. A small settlement of bunkhouses and cabins, known as Shaketown, developed nearby. A second mill produced cedar shakes, and both mills operated into the 1920s.

The Lynn Valley school was built in 1904 but closed briefly from 1906 to 1907 because of low enrollment. Following the closure of the Moodyville (Lynn Creek) school, a second school was required by 1908. Until 1910, a plank road to Moodyville provided the community’s only connection to the outside world. By 1919, a Japanese Canadian community had settled on the mountainside near the Cedar Mills Company sawmill, where many residents worked under contract supplying shingle bolts.